Falsettoland
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Falsettoland is a musical with a book by James Lapine and music and lyrics by William Finn.
Following In Trousers and March of the Falsettos, it is the third in a trio of one-act musicals centering on Marvin, his wife Trina, his son Jason, and his gay lover Whizzer. In this chapter of Marvin's life, Jason is preparing for his bar mitzvah and Whizzer is suffering from a mysterious, life-threatening, as yet undefined illness, which the audience recognizes is AIDS.
Falsettoland opened on June 28, 1990 at Playwrights Horizons. Three months later, it transferred to the Lucille Lortel Theatre, where it ran for 176 performances. The cast included Michael Rupert, Faith Prince, Stephen Bogardus, Chip Zien (later replaced by Lonny Price), and Heather MacRae.
A cast recording was released by DRG Records.
March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland eventually became Acts I and II of the 1992 Broadway production Falsettos.
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- Falsettoland
- About Time
- Year of the Child
- Miracle of Judaism
- Watching Jason (Play Baseball)
- A Day in Falsettoland
- Racquetball
- The Fight
- Everyone Hates His Parents
- What More can I Say
- Something Bad is Happending
- More Racquetball
- Holding to the Ground
- Days Like This
- Canceling the Bar Mitzvah
- Unlikely Lovers
- Another Miracle of Judaism
- You Gotta Die Sometime
- Jason's Bar Mitzvah
- What Would I Do?
