Falsettos
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Falsettos
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Falsettos NYC Reviews and Tickets

85%
(1021 Ratings)
Positive
92%
Mixed
6%
Negative
2%
Members say
Great singing, Great acting, Entertaining, Absorbing, Funny

About the Show

Two-time Tony Award winner Christian Borle stars in Lincoln Center Theater's Broadway revival of William Finn's groundbreaking musical about a gay man, his wife, his son, his lover, and their psychiatrist.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (1,021)

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94 Reviews | 14 Followers
100
Absorbing, Funny, Great acting, Great staging, Must see

See it if you enjoy a great family dynamic ahead of its time and love great theater. Being Jewish added another level of enjoyment.

Don't see it if you are homophobic Read more

292 Reviews | 68 Followers
100
Exquisite, Great acting, Great writing, Great singing

See it if William Finn is fantastic, The cast is amazing. Perfect show, words and music, and cast, and story and direction worked so well. Cathartic!

Don't see it if No excuse not to see it.

133 Reviews | 37 Followers
100
Thought-provoking, Riveting, Intelligent, Great acting, Clever

See it if You want amazing music, stellar performances, heartbreaking beautiful theater. GO!!! Best thing I have seen all year.

Don't see it if There is NO reason not to see this.

470 Reviews | 114 Followers
100
Absorbing, Entertaining, Great acting, Must see

See it if Charming, fun, wonderfully acted (bit of dancing too). Entire musical is sung-through. Set in 1979/1981, very touching & poignant.

Don't see it if Show is almost 3 hours but flies by. So many audience members were crying at end of Act II. Simply excellent - go see it!

125 Reviews | 36 Followers
99
Absorbing, Great acting, Great singing, Great writing, Masterful

See it if You love off-beat original musicals and storytelling. The performances are amazing and the story is deeply touching.

Don't see it if You don't like sung through musicals, may be homophobic, and prefer light-hearted uncomplicated easily digestible plots.

99 Reviews | 16 Followers
98
Delightful, Great singing, Must see, Profound

See it if you love theater -- this is a jewel you should not miss

Don't see it if you hate musicals that rely on the cast not special effects

144 Reviews | 29 Followers
98
Great acting, Great staging, Riveting, Hilarious, Resonant

See it if you want to see an amazing production of a musical treasure by the genius, Bill Finn. The cast is also excellent

Don't see it if you don't like revivals or disliked the original production

78 Reviews | 76 Followers
98
Great acting, Great staging, Great writing, Resonant, Relevant

See it if you want to see one of the most brilliantly written musicals, filled with humor, hardship and untimately hope. Love has always been love.

Don't see it if you don't like queer-focused storylines or if you need mind-numbing sosctable to Be satisfied.

Critic Reviews (49)

Lighting & Sound America
November 9th, 2016

"'Falsettos' remains a marvel of social observation and humane comedy—and the second act packs a knockout punch that very few musicals can match...In number after number, Finn both spoofs and sympathizes with his characters as they stumble around...Lapine has assembled a top-flight cast to get inside the heads of these complex, contradictory, often self-defeating characters...The time has never been riper for a revival of this beautiful show."
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Talkin' Broadway
October 27th, 2016

"'Falsettos' has cemented its stake for greatness, even for skeptics like me, by proving, with this production, that it has a lot more on its mind and in its heart than just the current political zeitgeist...What struck me this time around was its all-consuming universality...Borle's performance is fully integrated and absolutely seamless, the kind of thing we should see from every Broadway performer all the time, but in actuality rarely do. That includes, sadly, much of what surrounds Borle."
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CurtainUp
November 11th, 2016

"Finn's sung-through score is lyrical and sophisticated, full of intricate multiple harmonies. The lyrics are an organic blend of heart-tugging emotion and sophistication, and thanks to the small cast and orchestra achieve the clarity of conversations...This beautifully staged and performed revival is one of the most moving, eye and ear pleasing old-new musicals currently on Broadway. James Lapine once again directs gracefully so that 'Falsettos' feels fresh as ever."
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TheaterScene.net
November 14th, 2016

“Would a twenty-five year old musical about the AIDS epidemic still resonate today? The tear stained faces of the audience as the cast of ‘Falsettos’ took its curtain calls at the Walter Kerr Theatre put any doubts to rest. This musical is still powerful on many levels and to several generations. To those of us who lived through the height of the hysteria, ‘Falsettos’ brings back many moving images and to those who are too young, there is a tragically truncated love affair to contend with.”
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Theater Pizzazz
November 4th, 2016

"Two separate one-acts, brilliantly written, superbly directed, may be preaching to the choir at this point, but resound and sting with unparalleled profundity in this poignantly funny and tragic musical...This is a triple AAA perfectly selected cast that leaves you grappling with every emotion imaginable in this newly refreshed revival that never tires. The music and perceptive lyrics are an outpouring of thoughts and complex emotions that leave one breathless in their intensity."
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Front Row Center
November 14th, 2016

"The production is lively and pointed without a whiff of tired...If the plot verges on predictable, the characters are another story...They are simple—as in clear, and accessible, and engaging...All the maneuvering for that love is informed by funny and complicated lyrics and ironically compatible harmonies. Direction is superb...I’m glad I saw 'Falsettos' in its current iteration and find it a period piece with enormous vitality."
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Front Mezz Junkies
October 27th, 2016

"The music in 'Falsettos' is gorgeous and fun, complex and surprising...I wanted to cheer this whole show on from beginning to end. It’s fun and connecting. Beautiful, emotional, and engaging. Painful and sweet. But, there are also moments that feel dated and confusing...This could be one problem with keeping the same director (Lapine) as when it first played on Broadway...A new eye and different vision would have elevated this beautiful show to a higher level."
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New York Theater
November 12th, 2016

"There is much I enjoyed about it, especially the performances of its exceptional seven-member cast...But ultimately I found 'Falsettos' neither terrible nor terrific...For all its willingness to present ambivalent, bickering characters in complicated relationships, 'Falsettos' feels dated in many ways...The melodies produce no earworms, and the lyrics sometimes spin word pictures with the delicacy of a sledgehammer...There are moments...when I’m nothing but glad they brought it back."
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