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Daniele, who has staged such musicals as Once on This Island and Falsettoland, not only conceived but directed and choreographed Chronicle as well. Yet in the novella's passage from page to stage, something of its fateful weight has been forfeited. For one thing, Garcia Marquez's signature tone of sagacious melancholy is necessarily lost. For another, Bob Telson's music fails to deepen or extend the characters. In musical theater the audience longs to feel that it knows someone much better after listening to him or her sing for a couple of minutes. But Telson's priorities seem...
Lapine recalled that William Finn, composer and lyricist for the Falsettos series, "tracked me down to direct March of the Falsettos. I [went on to] co-author and direct the third play in the Marvin trilogy, Falsettoland, and Falsettos, the Broadway production which combines the last two of the trilogy...
...time Finn resumed, picking up their lives two years on, the decade that had passed in real life had revealed the defining impact of AIDS. Moreover, it had deepened his skills. When Falsettoland debuted, it ranked as the first (and still the only) great musical of the '90s. Coupled with March of the Falsettos and material culled from In Trousers, it hits harder...
...graced by a straightforward revival of 1956's The Most Happy Fella. By the end of April, those shows are to be joined by Man of La Mancha (1965) and Guys and Dolls (1950), and a belated transfer of the off-Broadway hits March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990), now paired in a single evening. In addition are three "new" musicals recycling songs by black composers: Five Guys Named Moe, produced by London impresario Cameron Mackintosh but mounted by Americans around the work of Louis Jordan; Jelly's Last Jam, featuring Jelly Roll Morton music and tap dancers...
...Falsettoland The conclusion of composer-lyricist William Finn's brilliant minimalist trilogy about a man's struggle for sexual identity blends the same style of daffy Manhattan humor (about nouvelle kosher cuisine, opulent bar mitzvah parties and "the lesbians from next door") with the newfound and baffling pain of AIDS...