Falsettos

Musical

Writers: William Finn James Lapine

Songs

Act One

  • "Four Jews in a Room Bitching" – Whizzer, Marvin, Jason, and Mendel
  • "A Tight-Knit Family" – Marvin and Mendel
  • "Love Is Blind" – Marvin, Jason, Whizzer, Mendel, and Trina
  • "Thrill of First Love" – Marvin and Whizzer
  • "Marvin at the Psychiatrist (A Three-Part Mini-Opera)" – Jason, Mendel, Whizzer, and Marvin
  • “My Father’s a Homo” / "Everyone Tells Jason to See a Psychiatrist" – Jason, Marvin, Trina, and Whizzer
  • "This Had Better Come to a Stop" – Marvin, Whizzer, Jason, Trina, and Mendel
  • "I'm Breaking Down" – Trina
  • “Please Come to Our House” - Trina, Jason, Mendel
  • "Jason's Therapy" – Mendel, Trina, Whizzer, Marvin, and Jason
  • "A Marriage Proposal" – Mendel, Trina, and Jason
  • "Trina's Song" – Trina
  • "March of the Falsettos" – Mendel, Marvin, Jason, and Whizzer
  • "Trina's Song" (Reprise) – Trina
  • "The Chess Game" – Marvin and Whizzer
  • "Making a Home" – Mendel, Jason, Trina, and Whizzer
  • "The Games I Play" – Whizzer
  • "Marvin Goes Crazy" or "Marvin Hits Trina" – Marvin, Mendel, Jason, Trina, and Whizzer
  • "I Never Wanted to Love You" – Marvin, Mendel, Jason, Trina, and Whizzer
  • "Father to Son" – Marvin and Jason

Act Two

  • "Welcome to Falsettoland" – The Company
  • "The Year of the Child" – The Company
  • "Miracle of Judaism" – The Company
  • "The Baseball Game" – The Company
  • "A Day in Falsettoland" – The Company
  • "The Fight" / "Everyone Hates His Parents" – Mendel, Jason, Marvin, and Trina
  • "What More Can I Say?" – Marvin and *Whizzer
  • "Something Bad Is Happening" – Charlotte and Cordelia
  • "Holding to the Ground" – Trina
  • "Days Like This" – The Company
  • "Cancelling the Bar Mitzvah" – Jason, Mendel, and Trina
  • "Unlikely Lovers" – Marvin, Whizzer, Charlotte, and Cordelia
  • "Another Miracle of Judaism" – Jason
  • "You Gotta Die Sometime" – Whizzer
  • "Jason's Bar Mitzvah" – The Company
  • "What Would I Do?" – Marvin and Whizzer

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.


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