a day in falsettoland 

a fire ass song from falsettos/falsettoland that made it into the 2017 tony awards, featuring Christian Borle as Marvin, Andrew Rannells as Whizzer, Stephanie J. Block as Trina, Brandon Uranowitz as Mendel, Anthony Rosenthal as Jason, Betsy Wolfe as Cordelia, and Tracie Thoms as Charlotte.

The song jumps around the groups of characters. It starts off with Mendel alone, complaining about his job as a psychiatrist, and fades into Trina “working it out”, metaphorically and literally by exercising and talking about her ex-husband’s (Marvin’s) relationship with Whizzer.

The next segment of the song transitions to Cordelia and Charlotte, narrated as “the neighbors relax after work”. The two lesbians exchange what happened in their day and how happy they are to be loving eachother.

The song transitions from Mendel and Trina back to Cordelia and Charlotte another time after this, before cutting to Marvin and Whizzer playing racquetball.

This segment of the number displays that Whizzer is more athletic than his partner, which becomes something to remember for “More Racquetball”, a song later in the musical. The two also display in this snippet of the song how much they really have a love/hate relationship.

Marvin: That’s not nice.
Whizzer: No it isn’t, but you’re a pain in the ass.

The last minute of the song harmonizes all of the parts together. Towards the last thirty seconds, it transitions into “Everything will feel alright for the rest of your life”.

“Did you know A Day in Falsettoland was on the Tony Awards?”
“..How the hell did you get in my house?”

a day in falsettoland by anonymous March 9, 2024