#so the first act march of the falsettos was first produced in 1981

[unliikelylovers]

if any of my followers don’t know what my url is from and you’re interested: it’s the title of this song from falsettos, a musical about the aids crisis from 1992 (which is why the video looks, you know, like that) i highly recommend you go listen to it because i think it is one of the most beautiful and moving songs in the broadway canon

#falsettos #but also what makes me insane is like. okay so the musical falsettos is from 1992 right? #however it's actually just two one-act musicals smashed together into a full-length two-act musical #so the first act march of the falsettos was first produced in 1981 #and it's a full story with a conclusion and you know the conflict is all about like. this fucked up family #and it's set in 1979 and it's telling a story about what being a gay man was like in 1979 new york #so the whole first act the whole thing is completely unaware of what's coming. the characters are unaware but So Is The Writer #and so march premiered in 1981 #and then #almost a full decade later #william finn wrote falsettoland. which would become the second act of falsettos #and that is set IN 1981. #premiered in 1990 but set in 1981 #and it begins as completely unaware and naive and you think the conflict is going to continue to be similar to march #you as an audience member could forget what's coming #and then the story is completely derailed in the song 'something bad is happening' #and then you as an audience member are like oh. that's right. fuck #and now all of a sudden this musical that was not in any way about aids #has to be about aids #and there's this very real sense of the suddenness of the devastation #like it just kills me #not a day goes by when i don't think about falsettos and how it was written over the course of 10 years and just. oh my god