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Bad Girls, French lobby card. 1994 Submitted by @videorecord
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Bad Girls, French lobby card. 1994 Submitted by @videorecord
ACTUAL FOOTAGE OF MRUPERT GLASSES MARVIN GAHHHHHH
Over The Edge (dir. Jonathan Kaplan, 1979)
OG Falsettos casts Revival Falsettos in an old playbill article.
Well, one of them guessed right. It probably helped that Michael did two previous shows with Christian, during which Christian fangirled about Falsettos and Marvin. It is really cute that he did think of him.
Leslie did attend opening night and I think this is the first time I’ve heard from Jonathan since the original closed. It’s cool that he came back for this.
#72 - Over the Edge (Kaplan, 1979)
Won't someone think of the children! For more rites of passage, juvenile delinquents and society's utter failure to look after their kids, check out Dinky's Dirt Cinema
Bonus Feature:
Nirvana - School (Over the Edge)
Ok so I've been commenting on how everyone is in their falsetto but Jason in march of the falsettos for years now and I was starting to think about what that would mean if it's intentional.
The entire point of the song is to show how Trina sees all of the men in the musical with how immature they're all being, which you see in Trina's song with "men who aren't quite men yet, but aren't boys," which makes sense for everyone but Jason.
The rest of them are grown men who should know better, specifically Mendel with how he's completely using advantage of and manipulating all of them to get closer to Trina, and Marvin with how he's literally been forcing his ex wife, child, and boyfriend to live in the same house. This isn't to say that Whizzer isn't doing anything wrong because his character definitely has flaws, especially through Trina's eyes.
Everyone singing in their falsetto is used to symbolise the fact that they're acting insanely immature for how old they are, but a lot of Jason's actions are completely normal for his age. He's 10-10.5 in act one and all he wants is to have a normal life, but everything keeps falling apart around him. His internalised homophobia at the start of act one, while it's very different from how kids today would view things, is kind of to be expected considering the fact that queer people were less talked about in the late 70s and definitely not in a positive way when they were, so even that was a lack of education, which you can see as he gets more and more comfortable around Whizzer and the lesbians (as well as Marvin but he had to get more comfortable around him for other reasons), when he starts genuinely caring about them and spending more time around them.
The reason he wasn't singing in falsetto with the others is because, while he's still immature at times, it's to be expected from how old he is at the time and it's also good that he has some childlike qualities left with how quickly he had to grow up. The rest of them have no reason to be acting as immature as they are because, while we have no confirmed ages, they're all somewhere between the ages of 30 and 45 (ish, I've seen 20 in Whizzer's age range but I'd rather not think of him being that young), it's a lot worse not just for age reasons but also because in some of their cases, they're harming people with how they're acting.
The reason jason isn't speaking in his falsetto is because his behavior can be excused with his age, while the rest of their behavior very much can't be.
Sorry this was a lot I'm very hyperfixated on this right now
Remembering Loni Anderson and Jonathan Kaplan
Here is my combined remembrance of two entertainers we lost this weekend:
Remembering Loni Anderson 1945-2025
Actress Loni Anderson has died at 79. She was great as Jennifer on TV's WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS 1978-82). The radio station sitcom was one of the best of it's era. In recent years we've lost co-stars Frank Bonner in 2021 and Howard Hesseman in 2022. Anderson, herself, even returned as Jennifer for the revival sitcom The New WKRP in Cincinnati (syndicated 1991-93).
Gary Sandy, Anderson and Hesseman on WKRP
Other notable roles she had included an episode of Three's Company in 1978, an episode of Amazing Stories in 1985, the sitcom Easy Street (NBC 1986-87) and the SNL spinoff movie A Night at the Roxbury.
The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.
Remembering Jonathan Kaplan 1947-2025
Director Jonathan Kaplan has died at 77. He got his start with Roger Corman (like so many) and eventually directed mainstream movies like Project X (a movie I dug a ton as a tween), the Oscar-winning drama The Accused, and Immediate Family. It needs to be added at the Kaplan also directed a ton of music videos for Rod Stewart ("Infatuation" and "Lost in You") and John Mellencamp ("Lonely ol' Night", "Small Town", "Rain on the Scarecrow", and "Get a Leg Up").
Anthony Edwards and Kaplan on the set of E.R.
The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.
Scenes from Over The Edge, 1979.