I just wanted to say that I've seen several people asking for subtitles. I looked into it and it seems like youtube has removed the community captions feature, which means that if we want captions I'm gonna have to do it myself. But fret not, I have way too much time on my hands, and this musical means so much to me, so I have decided to sit down and write them out myself!! So soon enough there will be english subtitles for the whole thing, it might take me a while, but I hope those of y'all that wanted it are at least excited to know they're coming eventually :D

NO. GOD. NO. NO I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE A SILLY, GOOFY MUSICAL MADE OF GREY BLOCKS. I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE JOKING. DENIAL IS A RIVER IN EGYPT MADE OF MY OWN TEARS.

my therapist: it’s just a plain grey block, it can’t hurt you the plain grey block:

The fact she hits the end of breaking down with a banana in her mouth is legendary

Lmao I always love the “don’t make noise but daddy’s kissing boys” and “petty petty petty petty”

OH MY GOD THEY PUT HIM IN BAGGIER TENNIS CLOTHES BECAUSE WHIZZER LOST WEIGHT

everything was not, in fact, alright

so proud of the audience in this one for cheering when jason hits the ball. that's in the falsettos canon forever now.

“homosexual” points at the whole theatre

Midlife crisis the musical

“Seven people and a grey block can’t hurt you” Seven people and a grey block:

Act one end: omg whizzer deserved better! Act two end: oh my god… whizzer deserved better…

Everyone talks about how Jason gives Whizzer the king but the reason it’s the white king is that he’s the first to go

I don't think I would trust someone who doesn't worship Christian Borle's vibrato

The silence after Marvin slaps Trina is so powerful. It’s the climax of act 1 in my opinion.

Marvin always be lookin like as if he has something menacing planned 💀

the day this recording is taken down is the day i cease to exsist

My favorite part is when Trina, Mendel, and Jason all agree that they wish the dog ran away

Whizzer being asleep with his face nuzzled in Marvin’s neck while he sings about his feelings is so personal to me There’s so much soft chemistry it’s crazy

i will never get over how anthony makes christian, stephanie AND brandon break character with his terrible dancing at 1:16:40 . i love them all.

i genuinely dont think ive ever seen a duo with such perfect chemistry as Christian and Andrew. theyre both incredible actors and work so well on stage together. i will never get over this show

a moment of appreciation for the costumes. at least in the first act, Trina is orange/yellow, Whizzer is blue, and Marvin flips between them. He starts the show with his blue shirt (his love of men) as the base layer of his outfit with an orange tie, his connection to Trina. Later Whizzer removes Marvins tie, removing his connection to Trina. Marvin adds a green coat, the color between Trina's yellow and Whizzers blue, which also emphasizes his lack of fashion sense. Mendel wears brown, a less bold color but still warm, to match Trina. Jason wears a green shirt with yellow and orange planets, showing that he is Marvin and Trinas child. Whizzers act one jacket is a deep blue, which mattches his button down and pushes him further away from Marvin color wise. Their button downs were nearly the same color, but the jackets differentiates their color pallets. They are growing apart. After march of the falsettos, Trina is waring an almost white skirt and button down. She is refreshed and new, with her new husband and new mission to live life happily. She is more neutral to fit Mendel better. When Marvin hits Trina he is wearing red, her old colors. He is coming back to her, but she has moved on. In act 2, these rules are broken over and over. They change clothes more because they are changing as people more. They aren't as stuck in their ways as they were in act 1. It's the 80s, even Mendel isn't afraid of a little color in his wardrobe. The bright colors and lack of organization makes them look more like real people. When Whizzer gets sick, the color is stripped away.

one difference i’ve noticed between act one and act two is that act one feels more like a performance while act two feels more like a group of people living. in act one, there’s almost no costume changes, and for the most part, that’s all they are: costumes. while in act two, they change outfits regularly as people do as days pass. another thing is the songs. in act one, almost every song has an “audience” of the other cast members even when they’re not in the song, as if they’re performing for the audience of characters. while in act two, the only characters on stage are the characters in that scene or song. it feels more authentic that way.

25:04 my fav detail so far is andrew nodding along to the beat to help the young actor who plays jason stay with the challenging rhythm in this speaking/singing mix moment.

i hate you whoever pointed out the fact that whizzer had baggier clothes cuz he lost weight ITS ALL I CAN FOCUS ON DURING ACT 2

The block being taken off of the set at the end to represent a grave for whizzer also represents a hole being taken out of everyone’s life with whizzers death to me. The grey blocks represent bond and everyone’s life’s with its familiarity. Whizzer leaving everyone creates a new world all the cast is unfamiliar with.

Laughing SO hard at Andrew’s “HEPATITIS Hepatitis????”

HOW DO ACTORS NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER??

Ive never realized how good of a stepdad mendel really was

The man who put a mid roll ad right after sick Whizzer fades behind the divider deserves to be put in jail

I love the fact that my first thing i ever said while watching this musical was "Why is his tie square? Why does he have a square tie?"

I noticed something! Wowie! In the first act, every change in clothes is either taking coats on and off or literal costumes (like the opening number or march of the falsettos outfit) although this starts to change on the last songs of the first act. In the second act however, they actually change clothes, like, everyday outfits. No play pretend, they are actually navigating life and actually and regularly changing clothes. I just think that's neat❤

Just wanna appreciate this little moment at 1:53:51, with Marvin being clearly ticked off by Cordelia's wrong pronunciation of "gefilte" but biting his tongue until Mendel says something, not to seem like the only asshole caring about linguistic minutiae at times like these. So incredibly relatable.

48:50 All of the adults are doing the voice, but Jason doesn’t, because he’s being the most mature in their situation 😭😭😭(either that or the voice is supposed to be mimicking a preteen boy, so Jason doesn’t do it bc he IS a preteen boy.) I love how skilled all of the actors are. Their reactions are always obvious without pulling focus.

Things I noticed on my 3rd watch: -Trina's first costume in act 1 is all warm colors compared to the men's cool colors -Whizzer makes the slapping sound with a clap in Marvin Hits Trina -Whizzer saying "do i love him? no" in Marvin Hits Trina is a callback to This Has Better Come To A Stop when Marvin says "love me please" -Jackass in replacement of asshole the whole musical -The amount of product in Whizzer's hair in act 2 -The Baseball Game perpetuates the stereotype that lesbians like sports bc they're more masculine. Then breaks down the same stereotype when Whizzer, the fashion all knowing gay guy, teaches Jason to play baseball (I think is this a really cool way to write lgbt ppl) -Trina lip syncing Jason's prayer during the bar mitzvah

No matter how many times I watch/listen to this, I can't stop absolutely bawling nonstop for the last 20 minutes. Just ugly crying all the way. God I love this cast so much

For any new watchers I'm just letting you know that it really ends at 1:33:50 There is nothing else that's the end 😊😊

During The Chess Game, I can’t help but laugh every time Whizzer says “and money” The way Andrew says it has me dying 😭

thought people were overreacting about how sad this was until I started ugly crying at the last 20 minutes

“I always wanted to watch falsettos, ive heard amazing things about it! Something to add to my go to musicals list” is how this started, it quickly turned into “WHY DID HE HAVE TO DIE NOOOOO” too quickly

listen, i love Marvin as much as the next person and i admire his character growth but something that will always kill me is when at minute 26:33 he asks "life can be wonderful, isn't this wonderful?" and Whizzer is so eager to reassure him but Marvin cuts him off, still insecure and still looking for a fight over silly things. It's one of the small moments, not like The thrill of first love where we can see that both of them enjoy bickering, in which we see that Whizzer is actually more mature and invested in their relationship, not wanting it to end, because he feels like his life with Marvin is wonderful.

Things I love in this show: Marvin’s little yell at 1:52 huh huh 4:05 Mendel aggressively using gestures the whole time

i don’t think I’ll ever love a musical as much as I love this one tbh

AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD CRY AT THE SIGHT OF A GRAY BLOCK

this is the most depresive ending i've ever seen in a musical

I will never be able to get over the phenomenal onstage chemistry between Christian and Andrew. The way they interact with each other on stage is amazing. Also the way they sing into each others mics at 14:37 is wonderful lmao

“if you had not been my friend” hurts so much fucking more than like using “lover” or “partner” or some shit because it’s like, a friend is in it for life. a friend is there when no one else is. a friend is always closest, a friend has known you the longest. idk my parents call eachother their “best friends” and for some reason it just hits harder.

The true ending is that Whizzer lives and then gets healthy after recovering and that he does NOT DIE and gets married to Marvin to complete there life as fathers to Jason and sees Jason growing up and Trina and Mendel live together happily and also the lesbians from next door live together forever and that’s how it actually is

2:19:15 Jason fulfill his promise to whizzer by giving him he’s king :( sobbing

andrew rannells is so damn pretty oml

"oh its a nice thursday evening, i wanna watch something, ive heard good things about falsettos, ill try watching it" i havent cried this hard in a while.

It's so sad the last one got taken down I love hepa hepa hepatitis so much!

I'm so grateful that this proshot exists. This is easily one of my all time favorite musicals and I will never get bored of listening to/watching it. Its my go to cast recording. Its my go to slime tutorial. This show is so unbelievably special it unreal. This cast was perfect in every way. From the set and prop design to the lighting and costumes are whatever, this production was nothing short of perfection. I'll never ever get over it. Ever. William Finn is a genius, one of the best musical composers of this generation. I will never not be eternal grateful for his masterpiece

1:16:45 i love how everyone in this scene broke character and laughed at anthony's stupid dancing (its my fav part in the show its hilarious)

I’m absolutely obsessed with this musical but I had a grey foam block in my room, similar to Whizzer’s grave. I gave it away to my cousins that day.

“Biblical times” is my fav pick-up line. Beware though, sometimes it works too well.

I would give anything to see this cast preform this live

If you’re interested, here’s some info (of my interpretation) on the set: All gray pieces are the main props. Used all throughout the musical. These props show the familiar. The therapy office is familiar, the house is familiar, Whizzers place is familiar (to Marvin). All familiar. We start seeing changes when Trina moves out. Ofc they are just props to make it look nice but it’s also changing because those few objects are unfamiliar/new. Then in the beginning of act 2, all three houses are familiar because they’ve lived in them for 2 years. Same with the baseball bleachers. Then we see the biggest change when Whizzer is sick. The hospital is unfamiliar, different, out of the norm. I believe the gravestone is also a gray piece (not just because it looks like it but also-) cuz Whizzer is familiar. That gravestone is Whizzer. Yeah. Anywaysss there ya go!

I occasionally reopen this hyperfixation at least 3 times a year and every time it kills me inside

Since the last time I watched this musical, I have turned 18, gotten a partner, and accepted my sexuality. When i heard "its about growing up, getting older, living on a lovers shoulder, learning love is not a crime, its about time" I was in shock. Its crazy how much a lyric can change, when you finally add the context to understand it.

i need more people to talk abt the "i don't know why but he looks..... like Marvin" with Marvin's whispered "relax relax" to Jason in between. i was already crying during that whole part but that made me completely break. i would analyse it but i'm so emotional (i just finished this musical 5mins ago LMAO) so i couldn't, but oh my GOD i love that moment. it needs more attention

It’s really hard to restart the album after listening to the last 20 minutes. You can’t go from devastating to hilarious like that. My emotions can’t take that 😂

i bawl almost everytime what would i do plays and the light fading off of Whizzer is like the final punch to the face of that song

1:42:44 And then the musical ended there. Jason had his bar mitzvah and it went wonderfully, Trina moved on from Marvin and prioritized her own happiness with Mendel, Whizzer and Marvin stayed together and worked everything out- Marvin stops trying to force his familial expectations on everyone, and he officially and peacefully divorces Trina and sees Jason on the weekends. Cordelia catered the bar mitzvah. Charlotte learns an at-the-time unknown disease has broken out among queer men and warn Marvin and Whizzer about it, but thankfully neither of them seem to have it. Everyone lives and is happy and lives happy lives.

1:48:05 OH. MY. GOD. I've seen this so many times... Listen to Whizzer here, after Marvin says "yes it is" if you turn up the volume, you can hear Whizzer quietly say "no, no it isn't" And my heart SHATTERED

48:40 Whizzer: Get offa my shorts! Marvin: They’re so hard to take off!

OH MY GOD IVE NEVER SEEN IT IN SUCH HIGH QUALITY

Therapist: It's just chess piece, it can't hurt you. The chess piece in question (A white King): I'm hyperventilating from crying so much. Imma watch it again lmao

‘We’re just gonna skip that stage’ always stabs me in my heart 2:17:06

Don’t mind me personal time stamps: -Love is blind 5:54 7:54 hepatitis 8:19 daddy is a prick 9:00 harmony -thrill of first love 10:32 10:47 NEiN months 11:13 style 11:19 11:27 what’s ur deal 11:53 whiplash 12:02 breeding shows Marvin 12:09 passion dies 12:37 nyat 13:04 what I love you devour 13:16 I was trained in karate 13:45 soooo sincereeee 13:56 the jump 14:02 no comment 14:17 PASSION DIES My fathers a homo 14:32 21:24 father homo 21:43 lol his parents yelling at him 21:58 no man 22:22 Jewish center 23:44 never never never 24:08 no. 24:49 whizzer 25:14 smack This had better come to a stop 25:55 late for dinner 26:33 isn’t this wonderful?!? 27:15 rich Marvin 27:27 love me. 27:44 THIS THIS THIS THIS 27:53 chop 28:22 this is incredibly BORING 28:31 this had better come to an end I’m breaking down 29:33 let me turn on the gas 29:54 where is my crown? 30:41 banana carrot surprise 32:37 Marvin’s wedding gown 33:32 37:05 smack. 37:18 my fucking motto 38:23 IS THIS THERAPY?!?! 39:40 March of the falsettos 47:31 Instrumentals here go hard 47:41 Trina…run my dear 47:53 whee 48:00 come here 48:36 gd 48:43 thank you. 48:49 voice crack oml 49:03 whizzers part lol 49:25 hai 49:39 marching chess game 52:03 52:36 lifes a sham 53:47 54:03 WHIZZER WINS 54:09 54:31 MaRVin 54:46 whizzer is a boss 1:01:13 games i play 1:01:44 1:01:53 1:02:55 i am so ashamed 1:03:32 wahpow 1:03:39 smack 3 ACT 2: 1:11:21 homosexuals 1:12:12 yabadaba 1:12:15 whizzer is so gay lol 1:12:24 LESBIANS!!!! 1:14:08 oh my god 1:14:16 1:14:59 THIS TALL Year of the child 1:15:17 slay Jason 1:16:45 yea Jason get it ig 1:17:51 a lesbian from next door 1:18:29 yeah idk 1:19:38 girls…. 1:21:14 baseball 1:23:48 bald spot Day In falsettoland (aka best song) start 1:26:02 1:27:00 I don’t get it either 1:28:31 I love Stephanie J block 1:29:12 bleh 1:28:28 orchestra go off 1:30:12 yayyy 1:30:41 1:31:55 1234 1:32:04 I can’t with whizzer lol 1:32:29 all I want is you 1:33:08 passion and flair 1:33:32 gd I love this song Everyone hates his parents: 1:34:22 1:35:20 Marvin gets called out 1:35:31 Jason’s a little shit 1:36:10 1:36:50 MOSES 1:37:50 get lost 1:38:00 get it Mendel 1:38:25 wheeeee 1:41:49 hehehe 1:47:51 character development Days like this

time stamps of the songs :) ACT ONE four jews in a room bitching 0:58 tight knit family/love is blind 4:28 thrill of first love 10:32 marvin at the psychiatrist 14:43 my fathers a homo/everyone tells jason to see a psychiatrist 21:18 this had better come to a stop 25:53 im breaking down 28:48 please come to our house 33:53 a marriage proposal/a tight knit family reprise 40:26 trinas song/ march of the falsettos 44:30 the chess game 51:30 making a home 55:30 the games i play 58:45 marvin hits trina 1:01:32 i never wanted to love you 1:03:54 father to son 1:06:40 ACT TWO falsettoland/ about time 1:11:11 ----> lesbians enter 1:12:24 year of the child 1:15:18 miracle of judaism 1:19:34 the baseball game 1:21:14 a day in falsettoland 1:26:02 everyone hates his parents 1:33:57 what more can i say 1:38:41 something bad is happening 1:42:52 holding to the ground 1:48:27 days like this 1:50:52 cancelling the bar mitzvah 1:54:06 unlikely lovers 1:57:55 another miracle of judaism 2:03:16 something bad is happening reprise 2:04:21 you gotta die sometimes 2:05:11 jasons bar mitzvah 2:08:15 what would i do 2:13:44 falsettoland reprise 2:18:10

Three sad things I noticed after rewatching it 1. Whizzer repeats sometimes over and over again on his death bed because despite what the song says, he is not ready to accept dying and leaving his one stable relationship 2. During the last song, whizzer and Marvin slowly move closer throughout the song as they wish for one more hour, showing how they wish they could repeat what they had and be able to embrace again. 3. When Marvin said that men get better with age and that they were just going to skip that stage, emphasizing we’re, which shows that Marvin continued to follow whizzer and pass away from the sickness. Marvin may have not made it to Jason’s 14th birthday due to the sickness. Act 2 left me litteraly sobbing the entire time.

the placement of the ads in act two make me physically ill.

this musical is my roman empire

i watch this musical every day. my mother has requested that i cry quieter

I’ve seen a whole bunch of opinions on the set and what it means but this makes the most sense to me. The things that aren’t gray blocks show maturity. In act one the briefcase, chess board, even the decorations of Mendel and Trina’s house, all show adulthood. The blocks are pretend, imaginary, childish. The non-block stuff is reality. In act two, the hospital bed shows that they have to grow up. This is really happening and it’s time to be mature. The entire musical focuses on the immaturity of the characters until the end when they really grow up. This is just my interpretation of it though!!!

how dare they do this and expect me to be okay after. I've been bawling for the last 25 minutes, I called that someone would die but JESUS the white chess piece hurt.

As a first-time watcher, I'm truly heartbroken. This musical is so sad and depressing, yet I love it so much! I feel so incredibly sorry for Marvin and jason tbh he was such a confused kid. Thank God Mendel stepped into his life! I was sobbing for the last 20 minutes of this show it's so incredibly depressing, but I'm just in awe.... like this story has so much to it maybe I'll watch it again when I get a little older so I might understand it more. I really hate it when characters who didn't deserve to die in musicals die. I finish it simply, heartbroken. I really enjoyed the show other than that part, though! Jason was really my favorite character for a lot of reasons. I really just liked the way he is, and I'm really happy he ended up seeing a psychiatrist, lol.

"Life can be wonderful- isn't this wonderful?" "Ye-" the way Marvin didn't let him finish I'm gonna explode

how can you just casually do curtain call as if i didnt just ball my eyes out

I love Mendel. He’s such a shitty psychiatrist but such a great step dead and sweet person.

i love this std awareness psa! thank you so much for bringing it to the publics attention!

i clicked on this cus of the title having no clue what it was guess im finally watching falsettos cus lmao what

the lesbians next door remind me of the golden retriever dog and black cat dynamic couple 😭

I really thought this was gonna be one of those comedic musicals with dark themes but overall a happy ending. Didn't think I'll feel real raw emotions let alone be devasted by the end of it. I discoverd this musical one day while lisetning to spotify I heard the first song then listened to a little more songs from the musical before finally watching it. Needless to say I am glad I randomly stubbled upon this masterpiece one day after listen to songs from my other favorite musicals!

i was sobbing and then my sister came into my room and started tiktok dancing

I absolutely adore the part of the chess song in the 2016 falsettos proshot when whizzer goes from singing 'checkmate' to 'life's a sham and every move is wrong' that gets me every time. (54:06)

the lesbians next door are so underrated i love them so much

i thought this was gonna be a silly goofy little musical pls 🧍‍♂️

the day this video gets taken down is the day my happiness leaves

Literally the best show I’ve ever seen… I’ll never get over how this show and its cast got snubbed so hard at the Tony’s that season… it was almost as heartbreaking as the last half hour of this musical is lmao

Color Schemes: Marvin - Green Whizzer - Blue Trina - Red/Orange Mendel - Brown Jason - Green + Red I like how you can tell Jason's their kid if you go on color schemes alone :) (probably not the first to notice but still very cool)

1:03:42 the way mendel covers jason with a hug so he doesn’t have to see his dad slap his mother.

I still can't believe Stephanie didn't win best actress for this role!

before i watched this i had the ending spoiled for me and i STILL ended up crying lmao

i start crying every time i listen to what would i do because of whizzers shirt. i know it’s stupid but the reason its white is because marvin is slowly forgetting the little things about whizzer. im sobbing while writing this

Super educational video essay about the 80's AIDS epidemic!! Thank you for posting!!

i'm not an attractive crier.... tonight was no different

Andrew is my favorite broadway actor ever

my favourite moments in falsettos (being updated): 25:42 they don’t make HOUSE CALLS 26:32 how marvin says “isn’t this wonderful?” and whizzer saying “yes” 27:02 “don’t ask me questions i’m frightened of questions” 27:12 RICH marvin WHICH marvin 28:10 THE CHOREOGRAPHY