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...around Marvin (Brad Rouse), a middle aged gay man who is unwilling to sacrifice his dream of a close-knit family, no matter what the wishes of that 'family' might be. He brings together his frantic ex-wife Trina (Leslie Yahia), antisocial son Jason (Chris Terrio), and vain lover Whizzer (Michael Stone) all under one roof. Marvin's hapless efforts to fit all the pieces of his life together provide the comic energy of the first half. Flung into this house of neurotics is also Martin's less-than-stable psychiatrist, Mendel (Reese Snow), who is immediately love-struck...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Quirks Make for Fabulous Falsettos | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...common with the Broadway staging of Falsettos. Both employ many bright-colored modular building-block pieces on rollers that become tables and chairs and footstools and playthings. Choreographer Paul J. Tines smoothly incorporated props into his lively numbers, especially in songs like "How Marvin Eats His Breakfast" and "Whizzer Going Down...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Song-Filled Crisis Over Personal Identity Carries In Trousers | 7/16/1993 | See Source »

...obsession. In 1979 he wrote a short musical called In Trousers about Marvin, a repressed homosexual who hears the mating call of liberation, ends his marriage and, in one memorable if unnerving moment of stagecraft, sings about the exquisite pleasures of oral sex with his new boyfriend Whizzer. Finn makes no bones about the piece's autobiographical flavor: "Though his history bears no relationship to mine, temperamentally Marvin is me. He is not easy. He is no joy to live with. But there is something to admire, I think, in the way he wants it all. When people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quirky William Finn | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

Finally Finn turned his attention back to Marvin and his world -- Whizzer, the former wife Trina and son Jason, and Trina's new husband Mendel, who had met her when he was Marvin's psychiatrist. Plus, of course, the lesbians, a doctor treating "frightened bachelors" at the outset of the AIDS epidemic and a chef who experiments in nouvelle kosher. Says Finn: "I realized that I was obsessed with these characters. I still am. I am not interested in writing about anyone else. Everything that moves and grips me in the theater can be told through these people. And they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quirky William Finn | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...limit the Court's jurisdiction on matters ranging from school prayer to busing to abortion. Still, conservatives appreciate the hands-off approach Ely would take on many cases. And the one current member whom Ely says has come close to following the tenets of his theory. Justice Byron "Whizzer White, has usually opposed scrutinizing legislation that allegedly violates so-called "fundamental rights," and future Reagan appointees would likely do the same...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Turning the Law on its Head | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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