But it's to no avail, because, as Dr. Charlotte reiterates, "Something Bad is Happening" to Whizzer ("Something Bad Is Happening (reprise)").
Mendel encourages them to have a simple party, but Trina (and Cordelia, the caterer) will have none of it.
Marvin sits in Whizzer's hospital room, soon joined by the Lesbians, and the four "Unlikely Lovers" wonder how much longer their love can last.Suddenly everyone bursts into the hospital room.
Audio CD March Of The Falsettos. It is 1979 in New York City, and Marvin, his son Jason, his psychiatrist Mendel and his male lover Whizzer are arguing. Jason is bar mitzvahed, entering Adulthood as Whizzer begins to leave his, for Whizzer can suddenly take no more, and is taken out of the room.In Whizzer's hospital room, the entire cast gathers to cheer him up, everyone commenting on how good he looks.
It is up to Mendel to console the boy, telling him that "Everyone Hates His Parents" at his age, but everyone also gets past it and moves on to hate them less.Mendel and Trina sit Jason down and give Jason the option of "Canceling the Bar Mitzvah" if he feels he can't go through with it, and Jason is finally told that Whizzer may not recover. Falsettos is a musical with a book by James Lapine and William Finn and music and lyrics by Finn. Falsettos, a musical in two acts, is comprised of two related Off-Broadway productions: March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. Falsettos is the story of a large, eccentric, and dysfunctional -- but loving -- Jewish family in New York at the end of the 1970s.
In his convention speech, candidate Pat Buchanan used someone’s praise of the Clinton-Gore campaign as “the most pro lesbian and gay ticket in history” to deride it for the same reason. Rumors are spreading, but the disease is spreading faster. The pair immediately starts bickering, to Jason's dismay and Mendel's amusement. Dr. Charlotte, meanwhile, has started to become aware that "Something Bad is Happening" among young gay men in the city, who arrive at the hospital sick with a mysterious illness that no one seems to know anything about. "One day, when she arrives to take custody of Jason for the week, Trina informs Marvin that it is now time to start planning Jason's Bar Mitzvah, probably the last pleasant thing the ex-couple will ever do together. Then Whizzer collapses during a game of racquetball ("More Racquetball").The peace doesn't last long.
Fans of the Off-Broadway works were there from the start to support the first performances. Initially, Marvin seems blessed with the perfect family. Jason has had an epiphany: he wants to hold his bar mitzvah in Whizzer's hospital room so he can be there ("Jason's Bar Matzvah").
Photo: Joan Marcus.Members get extended access to PBS video on demand and more.Christian Borle and Andrew Rannells in the 2016 revival of Falsettos. White House speech writers were told to link “family values” to child care and education and not to people’s personal lives and marriages.Anthony Rosenthal, Betsy Wolfe, Tracie Thoms, Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Synopsis. Marvin sits in bed one morning, looking at the sleeping Whizzer, wondering at how much he loves him ("What More Can I Say?"). Marvin provides love, Cordelia chicken soup and Mendel some terrible jokes. Only Jason, in childish honesty, is able to tell Whizzer the truth: that he looks awful.As Whizzer's condition worsens, Jason turns to God, asking him to let Whizzer get better ("Another Miracle of Judaism"); he'll even get bar mitzvahed if Whizzer gets better.
"Falsettoland," first produced in 1989, takes place in 1981, as preparations for Jason's bar mitzvah loom like a mushroom cloud over Marvin's exploded nuclear family. He is soon deathly ill, and he steels himself to meet his maker, reflecting bravely that "You Gotta Die Sometime. Once slated for Broadway, it had a bit of a false start.
by Soundtrack/cast Album. Trina couldn't be prouder, and everyone, for some reason, can only think how much Jason looks like Marvin. The musical consists of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, the last two installments in a trio of one-act Off-Broadway musicals (the first was In Trousers). Marvin and Trina are warring over every single aspect of the bar mitzvah, which makes Jason want to just call the whole thing off ("Round Tables, Square Tables"). He has a caring wife, Trina and a young son, Jason. Photo: Joan Marcus“Family values” was part of the culture wars of the early 1990s and a buzzword at the Republican Convention in August 1992. March Of The Falsettos (1981 Original Off-Broadway Cast) / Falsettoland (1990 Off-Off-Broadway Cast) by William Finn | Jun 30, 1992.