Falsettos- Page 2

[gypsy101]

Posted: 7/12/17 at 9:42pm

saw it tonight with my boyfriend and we absolutely loved it! he's not a huge musical fan so i was glad he enjoyed it. anyone notice Christian Borle's missing fingernail??? wtf!! also someone should have given that kid some chapstick lol other than that truly wonderful! i love the lesbians too, Traci needs to come back in a musical soon, and this made me even sadder Betsy won't be in Frozen.

[Gink]

Posted: 7/12/17 at 10:35pm

Gypsy--you must have had a bigger screen then we  did--didn't notice the fingernail or chapped lips.  I  did miss the lack of intermission though! I had to think which was the best song in Act II to miss. Great screening though! 

 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 7/12/17 at 10:41pm

Very grateful to have seen this tonight after missing the production last fall. You can just tell how special that cast was together. All were wonderful, but Block and Uranowitz were the standouts for me (Block, especially).

I feel like I need to study this show much more closely now. The writing is just exquisite, and the final moments crushed me. Lots of heavy criers around me during walkout.

Lastly, such exceptional camera/film work! So glad this show is being preserved with a fantastic recording.

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 7/12/17 at 10:56pm

So glad that I got to see the production a second time thanks to this screening. I feel like being able to see everybody's expressions up close made all the performances that much better, especially Christian & Andrew for me personally. The entire cast together worked so well together, & I adored it. 

[jtishere]

Posted: 7/12/17 at 10:57pm

Very glad I was able to see this tonight. What an incredible cast, and as someone brand new to the show, there is some exquisite writing. "Father to Son" is just gorgeous, as is "Unlikely Lovers." And Stephanie J. Block's "I'm Breaking Down" is a tour de force. 

[gypsy101]

Posted: 7/12/17 at 11:16pm

we were forced to sit in the front row so that may explain why were so close lol i'm very used to AMC movies starting15-20 minutes after the listed time so i was surprised to learn when we arrived at 7:05 after a forty minute drive that we were entering at the end of Four Jews in a Room Bitching and the place was sold out. no intermission meant we never had a chance to even scope out if there would have been any other seats for us! other than that it was a wonderful evening (despite having a pain in my neck from all the craning i had to do to see)

[TheThreadMaster]

Posted: 7/12/17 at 11:52pm

I went in very blind after not knowing much about it as well as not seeing it this fall. What an incredible and powerful story/show. Beyond original. And that Regal on 42nd street is very nice.

[Wick3]

Posted: 7/12/17 at 11:56pm

Sold out wow! I went to the regal cinemas on 42nd st by Times Square and to my surprise it wasn't sold out! I, too, missed the production last fall and am glad to see it on the big screen! :)

[ethan231h]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 1:20am

Was also at Regal 42nd street tonight after finding out Union Square was sold out! So happy to have now seen this show twice and was quite moved during both viewings. That cast is just too much, they are all amazingggggggg. Side note, pretty sure Anthony Rosenthal was at the Regal 42 tonight. Also hated that no intermission!!!

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 7:33am

Saw it tonight in Palm Springs. Not sold out, but a good crowd considering it is playing in three or four theaters within driving distances. (I don't know where some of you live, but it must be very remote. Ask people about cell phones and wifi. LOL)

Absolutely loved it! As promised, Block stopped the show (even on film) with "I'm Breaking Down". Audience didn't seem to care it was a movie as there was also hearty applause for the curtain call!

As I expected from the recording, Rannells and Block were standouts; but Borle grew on me. His voice is beautiful and his phrasing is like Streisand on steroids (in a good way, but who back-sings a full half phrase at a time?). He used the technique consistently and to great, dramatic effect. And his acting choices are complex and enlightening. The film finally made his Marvin a 3-dimensional character for me.

I've been a Falsettos fan boy since I saw MARCH and IN TROUSERS in 1979 and 1982, respectively. I've seen many versions and this is at least the best sung, and for several roles (including Cordelia) the best acted version I've encountered. (To be fair, Carolee Carmello was pretty funny with "Breaking Down", too.)

Can't wait to see it again on Sunday and in the Fall.

 

[South Florida]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 7:41am

Good to read of all you first timers, Concierge, those two were my favorite also.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 7:50am

I'm not arguing, but I'm surprised at the raves for Uranowitz. I certainly don't think he was bad and his interactions with Jason were not just touching but essential to making sense of the second act. But a lot of what he does was previously charted by Chip Zien; in fact, he seems the least different of all the cast members. Very good, just not surprising.

As I've said in another thread, IMO, Block and Rannells are the new gold standard for their roles. Tonight's big cry for me (which always varies with FALSETTOS) was Block's "Holding to the Ground". Rannells' "These Are the Games I Play" was not only the second biggest hand, I felt I learned everything from his Whizzer, down to the very county in the Midwest where he was raised!

The kid was also excellent, perfectly underplayed. My real-life stepson was one of those too-bright-for-his-own-good adolescents and I thought the child actor perfectly captured the type.

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 10:01am

i also saw it last night in Palm Springs and LOVED IT...i was supposed to see it on Broadway live last November but cancelled that trip so this was my first time...while i LOVE the second act because i know the score so well from all my listenings, i also liked the first act as it does set up what follows in the second...BORLE was great as was BLOCK...all the cast was terrific and i too love seeing Tracie Thoms as i love her singing...

what was little off-putting to me was the audience here at this movie theatre...some clapped and most were very silent at the end of numbers...i was applauding after every song that got to me and i felt strange as i was almost the only one...there were exceptions to this but not many...

overall i LOVED this "movie" and i also liked the intimacy it gave us the audience,  to the on stage acting and singing...very intimate...

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 10:33am

GavestonPS said: " . . . (I don't know where some of you live, but it must be very remote. Ask people about cell phones and wifi. LOL) . . ."

There are no scheduled screenings in the Houston area this weekend, and none in our inner loop ever.  (Insert sad face emoji here.)  A lot of my fellow inner-loopers, who would love it, are missing out.  The other shows filmed for movie theaters have been well attended.  

Fortunately, I have my memories of seeing the show live.   I cherished every minute, but award the golden buzzer to Borle for giving his very complicated character a warmth that evades other actors.  I often cringe at how Marvin is portrayed.  That didn't happen once with Borle.  

[Snee17]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 11:43am

Christian broke his fingernail in a door (someone asked why his finger looked strange). 

Updated On: 7/13/17 at 11:43 AM

[broadwayboy222]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 12:01pm

Any insight if any of the lyric changes are in place for this? Beyond thrilled to see it Saturday, but am hoping  not too many of the lyrics have been censored. 

[StylishCynic]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 12:12pm

Went to one of the Chicago screenings last night. The theater was about 70% full, which was a little surprising. Newsies at the same theater was at capacity, but, hey, I guess that's Disney for you haha.

My friend and I went into the show cold, and WOW WOW WOW. We were simply blown away!

"I'm Breaking Down" was the only song to receive applause in our movie theater, and it was RAPTUROUS applause. I'm not seeing Hello, Dolly! until the fall, but I think that Block was robbed of the Tony. She was transcendent.

Sidenote: did anyone else think that she sounded like Celine Dion at moments?!

During the last minute, the sobbing in the movie theater was audible. I'm talking loud, deep sobs. I can't imagine having to try to respectfully keep it together when in attendance of a live performance of this.

I hope there is a DVD release, but I won't hold my breath. 

[WestCoastActor/Director]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 12:57pm

Even though I saw the production live in New York last fall I was grateful to get the chance to see the show again near my home in California. The original productions of Falsettos was one of the most memorable earlier shows I've ever seen.  And I especially loved being able to see the close-ups of the actors to take in all of their expressions.

The audience was probably only half full which was disappointing.  The cool thing what is that half of the audience were very young people.  Probably college student age, maybe younger. I found that refreshing that the show was reaching a new generation. However a good number of them came in after the show started. I hope they don't think they can do that attending a Broadway show.

I agree that Fathom Events needs to have some kind of notification. Newsies had at intermission. I was assuming that Falsettos would as well but it didn't.

The night before I was at a screening of fares for Carole King's Tapestry concert in London.  As all the credits finish rolling people get up to leave been a voice of the back yells out it's not over. There was apologue of Carole reflecting on the concert.

[billyelliotfan123]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 1:13pm

Fathom events did not distribute Falsettos. That is probably why there is no intermission 

[hannhannham]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 1:15pm

I think this was discussed in an earlier thread, but the ones that stood out to be were changing asshole to jackass, boring as **** to flat as a lake, and Jason wasn't allowed to say "Jesus Christ" in Jason's Therapy. Oh, and the removed the F word from Cordelia in "A Day in Falsettoland" 

[nightnic001]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 1:39pm

Also, for whatever reason, in Baseball Game bald-spot was changed to "hair-line"

[LuminousBeing]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 2:34pm

"Bald spot" to "hairline" was done during the production as well. 

[LYLS3637]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 2:55pm

LuminousBeing said: ""Bald spot" to "hairline" was done during the production as well. "

 

Interesting. Finn must have changed it back and forth. It's "bald spot" on the recording and both times I saw it. Don't know why it was being changed around on (what seems like) a semi regular basis.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 3:10pm

I'd be interested to hear why it was back and forth as well.

[broadwayboy222]

Posted: 7/13/17 at 3:55pm

Is Four Jews in a Room B****ing still in as is?? Makes no sense to me if that's still in why boring as s*** would be changed? All that should've been in place was a Viewer Discretion Ad but oh well....