Posted: 8/27/16 at 12:04pm
I know that when Falsettos was originally on Broadway, act one was March of the Falsettos and act two was Falsettoland. Is that going to be the same case with the upcoming revival?
Posted: 8/27/16 at 1:56pm
I wonder if any company has attempted to incorporate In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland into a single evening. I think the same cast could be used by having the actors playing Cordelia and Dr. Charlotte play Marvin's high school sweetheart and Ms. Goldberg respectively in In Trousers.
Posted: 8/28/16 at 11:33pm
^^^^ I think it's more than enough to ask the actors playing Marvin and Trina to do TWO of the Marvin plays in one evening. Trying to do a third would be cruel, unless it were an ANGELS IN AMERICA-type situation where IN TROUSERS were done as the matinee.
Not that I wouldn't go see the plays performed as a trilogy. I absolutely would!
Posted: 8/29/16 at 12:01pm
Challenging, maybe, but not impossible. You basically end up with three hours and two intermissions and although the actors playing Marvin and Trina would definitely have to be on their games for most of the shows, neither of them would be on stage the whole time.
Posted: 8/29/16 at 7:54pm
Marvin, in particular, in not a normal role. I saw Michael Rupert do MARCH as a one act and FALSETTOS as a two act. He was brilliant in both, but he put as much energy into one act as he later did into two. (I.e., everything he had to give.) He was great in two acts; he was ferocious in one. Give him three acts to perform in one day and you simply disperse his energy that much more.
And we haven't even addressed the fact that Chip Zien was deemed right for Marvin in IN TROUSERS, yet was shifted to Mendel for MARCH. So it's reasonable to assume there are fundamental changes to the character between plays 1 and 2.
I think asking one actor to play all three acts in one day would be like asking an actress to play Evita three times in a day.
Of course, other performance configurations are possible. It doesn't have to be three in a day.
