Holding to the Ground

Then Stephanie and James Lapine talked about the process of staging that scene. That was a gold mine. He wanted to have Trina chop off a piece of her finger and there would be blood spurting and the audience would be freaking out over whether the actor actually was injured. He was very attached this idea and stuck to it until the very end. Everyone else was like James pls no.

Whizzer is misbehaving and Marvin gets mad. Lapine swooped in to give a more in-depth explanation But!!

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Apparently, James had said to Bill that they needed a group number with everyone in it. At that point, Bill had already written the entire baseball scene in his notebook except for a few final chords, and he was like oh here you go I already wrote one.

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When were you going to give me this?! When you needed it? Bill, that was racquetball. Oh, I thought it was squash. Who were the lesbians???

"Holding to the Ground" from William Finn's "Falsettoland"

And Bill was saying Ms. And he was so sweet and charismatic. I love this man.

Near the end, they talked about us!!! You could hear people crying softly. Originally posted by nikolaevna-romanova Post-script: She signed the hand-out I got at the cinema asking me who she should make it out to and addressing it to me in her beautiful swoopy handwriting! Mendel, from the start, likes her. Also she calls him sweet. A Marriage Proposal invented heterosexual love. Marrying him will welcome love and happiness into her life. The people saying that shit are probably the people who fetishize Marv and Whizz, especially Whizz. Mendel puts himself between Marvin and Trina, then after Marvin hits her Mendel rushes to her side and draws Jason to him as well.

He does care for Trina, and her son. Trina calls Mendel warm and comments on how he loves her, she also believes Mendel will help her get her life back together. Even if Trina married Mendel out of desperation, later we see they do mutually love each other and have a healthy relationship where they both support each other.

Trina holding back supportive stepdad Mendel is good and amazing. Any of the casual touching, hand holding, hugging or kissing they do is amazing too. Holding to the Ground. Brandon Uranowitz - Holding to the Ground. Indeed, In Trousers is written in a way that Marvin is the centerpiece of the story, exploring his relationships with the three most-influential women in his life: The characters and situations inside of In Trousers begged for deeper development and fortunately William Finn pushed forward and created a more compelling, linear story around Marvin and company.

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Jump to and the Playwrights Horizons presentation of March of the Falsettos , a one-act musical that would eventually become Act One of the Broadway musical Falsettos. Marvin wants it all: Mendel becomes more than the family doctor when he puts the moves on the Trina, eventually winning her from Marvin and marrying her.

The musical ends with Marvin having alienated everyone in his life, Whizzer breaking up with him, and everything in his world going to hell. It was an interesting place for the show to end.

Jump ahead to , and once-again Playwrights Horizons in onboard for the continuing neurotic adventures of Marvin and his high-stress clan, this time in the form of the riveting and darker Falsettoland. A lot had changed in America since , and the AIDS epidemic had shaped how the world of sexuality especially homosexually was viewed and explored.

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Marvin and Trina are trying to be civil toward each other while they plan the event, but they are as usual at odds over every detail. Jason is less-interested in the celebration, and more focused on the girls he will invite to his party. Mendel decides it is his job to raise Jason everyone else is failing miserably at it and he advises the preteen on women, religion and baseball, using logic and psychiatric theory.

Thrown into the mix are two new characters Dr. They comment on the action, and, especially Dr. Marvin reunites with Whizzer, finally coming to terms with his sexuality and working toward a healthier relationship, only to find out that the love of his life is sick with an undiagnosed illness that will kill him.

Marvin must dig down and summon his strength to face his greatest challenge yet. Whizzer passes away, leaving behind a family that, for better or worse, has found a way to come together. Family is an elastic thing, no longer defined by convention, but rather as the people who hold each other up. Graciela Daniele directed the evening under its new title Falsettos.

Falsettos (2016) - Holding To The Ground

The combination of the two yielded a far more satisfying and substantial piece of theatre. The frantic nature of March of the Falsettos was offset by the gravitas of Falsettoland , and Falsettoland was given greater depth and meaning through the backstory of March of the Falsettos. Together, as Falsettos , this was a beautiful piece of theatre that throbbed like a raw nerve.

It was honest, unyielding and, most of all, had a marked influence on how gays and lesbians were to portrayed in the musical theatre. The production was so well-received it seemed almost a certainty that it would transfer to Broadway intact.