'Learing love is not a crime' - About time (Falsettoland)
I love this lyric so much as it can be taken 2 different ways.
It can be, 'learning, love is not a crime' and shows how Marvin is accepting his homosexuality and his right to love someone and accept his non traditional family.
But it could be taken as 'learning love, is not a crime' where it focuses on Marvin's inability to love Whizzer in a healthy way in the first act, but it shows his commitment to wanting to better himself and have a healthy relationship in the second act.
And, in both the original boradway cast recording and the revival, there is no punctuation in the lyrics, so it could easily be taken either way.
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falsettos spoiler
most people generally agree that marvin also dies from aids after the course of the musical, but something i’ve never heard anyone mention is the fact that with marvin and whizzer gone trina, mendel, and jason are now the most average nuclear “tight knit family” possible, something that they would’ve dreamed of having previously but now is like a curse in the absence of what made their group actually unique and loving
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Collection of pre-revival Falsettos/Marvin Trilogy bootlegs & other recordings
lmk in the notes if you have any you'd like me to add!
Full length (or mostly full length) off broadway/broadway/tours:
1993, (mostly) original broadway cast, unlisted youtube video
1993, same recording as above but a public youtube video
Most likely 1992, Carolee Carmello as Trina (act 1 only)
1994, Mandy Patinkin as Marvin
Falsettoland 1990
Other full length productions:
Hartford Stage 1991 (youtube link)
Hartford Stage 1991 (google drive link)
In Trousers, Trinity College (youtube link)
In Trousers, Trinity College (vimeo link)
Falsettoland, Trinity College
Other shorter recordings:
What Would I Do, Michael Rupert & Stephen Bogardus, 2009 concert
Father to Son, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Michael Rupert & Sivan Cotel
Father to Son, Mandy Patinkin
Four Jews in a Room Bitching, 2007 w/ Malcom Gets
The Baseball Game, OBC, on TV at some point in the 90s
Falsettoland (song), Japan 1994
March of the Falsettos (song), New Orleans 2000
I Never Wanted to Love You, New Orleans 2000
The Games I Play, New Orleans 2000
Unlikely Lovers, New Orleans 2000
You Gotta Die Sometime, New Orleans 2000
Love is Blind, Cape Town, year unknown (has the original MOTF blocking & lyrics which I think is cool)
Egads! Theatre, In Trousers clips
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It makes me SOOOO angry when people draw Marvin (especially revival Marvin) as some skinny or buff hairless pre-teen or just not the chubby body type he actually has. He’s a full grown man with body hair, he also has a lot of internalised homophobia and misogyny, he wouldn’t be shaving or grooming himself at all. He’s also definitely got more chub in act 2 than act 1 (I am an avid lover of gaining weight to symbolise happiness btw) but he definitely has it in act 1 too. He also has wrinkles, aging imperfections and he’s probably got chubby features/‘imperfections’ (e.x. Hip dips, stretch marks, rolls, rough patches of skin where its been stretched/pushed together). I do also hate when people draw Whizzer skinny when he, in fact, is muscled/toned and well groomed but he also is a young/middle aged adult, who is confirmed to have body/leg hair. Bottom line is, Marvin AND Whizzer aren’t little twinks, Whizzer is a muscley jock and Marvin is a grown ass middle aged man!
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