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Falsettos’ Story of Love & Family Amid the Onset of AIDS Is Timeless

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Falsettos creators William Finn and James Lapine and producer Jordan Roth spoke with The Advocateabout taking the landmark gay musical about family on the road. 

“I’m trying to keep sane as the rules keep changing. Families aren’t what they were,” sings Trina, a mom raising her bar mitzvah-age son with her ex-husband Marvin, his new boyfriend Whizzer, and her new boyfriend — the psychiatrist — Mendel. Composer and lyricist William Finn and James Lapine, who wrote the book and directed March of the Falsettos in the late 1970s, created a story of love and family that predated by nearly 40 years Read More

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