MENDEL
Homos**uals
Women with children
Short insomniacs
And a teeny tiny band
Come, right in
The welcome mat is on the floor
Let’s, begin
This story needs an ending
Homos**ual
Father with children
One bar mitzfah that
Is scrupulously planned
ALL
Lover’s come and lover’s go
Lover’s fight and sing fortissimo
Give these handsome boys a hand
Welcome to Falsettoland
TRINA AND WHIZZER
Nancy Reagan
Meanest and thinnest of the first Ladies
Moves into the White House
MARVIN, JASON, MENDEL, CHARLOTTE, CORDELIA
Ya-bah-dah-bah
WHIZZER AND TRINA
It’s the ’80s
MARVIN, JASON, MENDEL, CHARLOTTE, CORDELIA
Ya-bah-dah-bah
WHIZZER AND TRINA
Groovy ’80s
MARVIN, JASON, MENDEL, CHARLOTTE, CORDELIA
Ya-bah-dah-bah
WHIZZER AND TRINA
What a world we live
MARVIN, WHIZZER, MENDEL, AND JASON
March, march, march of the Falsettos
March of the Falsettos
TRINA, CHARLOTTE, AND CORDELIA
What a world we live in
MARVIN, WHIZZER, MENDEL, AND JASON
Who is man enough to march in
March of the Falsettos
CHARLOTTE AND CORDELIA
Spiky lesbians
DR. CHARLOTTE
Women internists
CORDELIA
Shiksa caterer
TRINA, CORDELIA, AND CHARLOTTE
Who is trying to expand
ALL
Everybody on his mark
TRINA, CORDELIA, AND CHARLOTTE
Congregate at Central Park
MARVIN, WHIZZER, MENDEL, AND JASON
Pretty boys are in demand
ALL
Welcome to Falsettoland
Whee!
Whoo!
What a world we live in!
Whee
Whoo!
What a world we live in!
Wha–?
MARVIN
It’s about time, don’t ya think?
It’s about time to grow up, don’t ya think?
It’s about time to grow up and face the music
It’s about time
Since we last spoke
Two years are waning
I’ll try explaining
Just what you’ve missed
We called a truce
And fitfully we coexist
I’m still loose
She’s still with the psychiatrist
So I don’t have a psychiatrist
Except on the Jewish holidays
But I still have my son on the weekends
Hey, just on the weekends
And some very good friends
But I don’t have a lover anymore
Oh my God
When am I gonna get over this
When am I gonna get over this
When am I gonna get over this
WHIZZER, CHARLOTTE, AND CORDELIA
Homos**uals
TRINA AND JASON
Women with children
ALL
Ex-Ex Lovers
MENDEL
And a teeny tiny band
ALL
Welcome to Falsettoland
CORDELIA
Shiksa caterers
CORDELIA AND MENDEL
Short insomniacs
CORDELIA, MENDEL, AND JASON
Hypochondriacs
ALL
Yiddish Americans
Spiky families
Radiologists
Intellectuals
Nervous wrecks!
AH!
Welcome to Falsettoland
MARVIN
It’s about time, don’t ya think
It’s about time to grow up, don’t ya think
It’s about time to grow up and face the music
It’s about time
One day I’d like to be
As mature as my son, who’s twelve and a half
And this tall!
That’s all I’d like to be
It’s about growing up, getting older, living on a lover’s shoulder
Learning love is not a crime
It’s about time
It’s about time
It’s about time
It’s about-