Marvin has realized that it's "About Time" to grow up and get over himself. Cordelia asks Charlotte how her day was at the hospital, and Charlotte exclaims that today was a rare day without a death.
Meanwhile, Trina and Mendel move in together and start making a home. His worries cause him to misbehave, and everyone tells Jason to see a psychiatrist. All agree that it had better stop. It is 1979 in New York City, and Marvin, his son Jason, his psychiatrist Mendel and his male lover Whizzer are arguing. Falsettos is a musical by James Lapine and William Finn. One day, when she arrives to take custody of Jason for the week, Trina informs Marvin that it is time to start planning Jason's Bar Mitzvah, probably the last pleasant thing the ex-couple will do together. Suddenly everyone bursts into the hospital room. It is 1981, two years later. "March of the Falsettos," set in 1979 and first staged in 1980, introduces charming, neurotic Marvin, who leaves his wife, Trina, and son, Jason, for a male lover, handsome, irresponsible Whizzer. Mendel consoles the boy, telling him that everyone hates his parents at his age, but everyone also matures and hates them less. The pair immediately start bickering to Jason's dismay and Mendel's amusement. He is trying to decide which girls to invite to his bar mitzvah: the girls he should invite, or the girls he wants to invite. Mendel encourages them to have a simple party, but Trina (and Cordelia, the caterer) will have none of it. Marvin's friends and family surround him, as Mendel bids the audience goodnight from the world known as "Falsettoland." Mendel arrives and immediately charms Trina. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsCookies help us deliver our Services. In part two, Mendel, obviously aroused, interrogates Marvin about his ex-wife's bedroom habits. Mendel shines a flashlight into the audience on a dark stage, welcoming us to "Falsettoland," the story's conclusion. Everyone is sitting watching Jewish boys who can't play baseball play baseball and getting a little too involved in it, when Whizzer suddenly arrives. Only on Whizzer's advice does Jason agree to see Mendel. Shocked by his actions, both reflect that "I Never Wanted To Love You", a sentiment Whizzer repeats to Marvin and Marvin repeats to Jason and Whizzer. Trina, on Marvin’s recommendation, pays a visit to Mendel where she wearily wonders how her life has turned out this way.
Trina reflects on her situation. Trina could not be prouder. The scene moves to Jason's Little League Baseball game. we get character development at the end of act 1 and then that carries to act 2, i think having a character be frustrating towards the audience, then have a character development but then soon quickly die wouldn't affect us as much. Does Marvin get AIDS from Whizzer? "so yeah, he probably died either by AIDS or suicidePress J to jump to the feed. maybe these are Marvin’s symptoms, but he doesn’t get sick as quickly as Whizzer. Mendel, instantly attracted to her, tries to console her, telling her that love is blind. Though the official lyrics state that it is “too” (meaning that Marvin is agreeing that Whizzer’s death is in near future), William Finn also does a lot of double-meanings in his text, so depending on what you interpret, it can also be “two” (as in, Marvin has two clues for the future: Whizzer will die, and Marvin himself will die). He has not seen Whizzer for two years, and has still not gotten over him. Everyone commenting on how well he looks. Fucked up, manHasn't Finn said he'd like to imagine that Marvin died bc of complications due to AIDS after the story told in the last act? Everyone does so, but what they don't know is Marvin took them all home and read them. In the middle of the second act, two of the central characters, the gay men Marvin, played by Christian Borle, and Whizzer, played by Andrew Rannells, have reunited after … I believe I had read that in an interview, but I cannot search for it right now - if I find it I will post it here :)I think he had talked about Trina as well, something along the lines of her coping with Marvin being ill and her own s*icidal tendencies (as mentioned in Tight Knit Family/Love Is Blind)...i feel like it wouldn't have affected the audience as much as whizzer's death does, from act 1, marvin is shown as a power hungry person, someone who would frustrate the audience. Jason finally learns that Whizzer may not recover. Everyone agrees that is it days like this that make these secular Jews believe in God. Marvin sits in bed one morning, looking at the sleeping Whizzer, wondering at how much he loves him. Then Whizzer collapses during a game of racquetball. i feel like it wouldn't have affected the audience as much as whizzer's death does, from act 1, marvin is shown as a power hungry person, someone who would frustrate the audience. They have very little in common, apart from the fact that they both love fighting and are insanely attracted to each other. Marvin sits down Jason for a talk "Father to Son" and tells him that he loves him, and no matter what kind of man Jason turns out to be, Marvin will always be there for him. Mendel listens to the blather of a yuppie patient and agonizes about being a sixties shrink stuck in the eighties and how his work is taking a toll on his marriage to Trina. Mendel and Trina jog and discuss Marvin and the Bar Mitzvah, and Dr. Charlotte comes home to Cordelia cooking "nouvelle bar mitzvah cuisine."