Marvin's Story

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In Trousers is about a man named Marvin who has a wife, Trina (though we do not know her name in this play), and a son, Jason. He tells the antics of his relationships with girls in the past including his high school sweetheart, his wife, and his high school English teacher, Miss Goldberg, who let him play Columbus in the school play. He then returns to the present telling us that he wants to be with men, not women, but does not know what to do because he has a family and does not want to desert his responsibilities or lose their love. In the end, he leaves his family for his gay lover, Whizzer Brown.

March of the Falsettos is about how Marvin deals with his "family." He wants to be with Whizzer, but he does not want to lose the affections of his ex-wife and son. He wants them all to be one big happy family. In the middle of all this, Marvin's psychiatrist, Mendel, is moving in on Trina, who he eventually marries. Marvin loses everyone in his frenzy not to do just that. Faced with this reality, he tries to talk to his son, who has been trying to deal with the fact that his father is gay, and gives him some fatherly advice that he must march to his own tune. In the end he has at least salvaged his relationship with Jason.

Falsettoland takes place two years later. Jason is almost ready to be bar mitzvahed, and is worrying about which girls to invite. Two other characters are introduced in this act, Charlotte and Cordelia, the lesbians from next door. Marvin and Whizzer get back together and Marvin finally learns to love unselfishly and unconditionally. At this point, Whizzer is struck with a horrible, life-threatening disease, which the audience knows is AIDS. As Whizzer dies, the audience sees that after all that Marvin has been through, he will lose what is most precious to him. Marvin's "family," however, consisting of the other characters in the show, gather around him and by being there, offer their love and support.