Falsettos, a sung-through musical with a book by William Finn and James Lapine, and music and lyrics by Finn, centers on Marvin, who has left his wife to be with a male lover, Whizzer, and struggles to keep his family together. The themes of Jewish identity, gender roles, and gay life in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which includes the AIDS epidemic, are central to the musical.
