YMMV / Falsettos

• Award Snub: The revival of the show was nominated for five Tony Awards and didn't win a single one. While both shows were well-received critically, many Falsettos fans felt that Hello, Dolly! swept the Tonys to an inane level and didn't have the serious social commentary and/or subject matter that Falsettos had. Some felt that Andrew Rannells or Brandon Uranowitz should've won Featured Actor over Gavin Creel for that show, with several believing that their respective chances were undone by a vote split. Additionally there were a few who thought Stephanie J. Block should've won Featured Actress over Rachel Bay Jones for Dear Evan Hansen. Though in both of these cases, it's worth noting that the respective winner was hugely acclaimed, same with the losses in Lead Actor and Revival.
• Awesome Music:
  • "Whizzer Going Down" from In Trousers.
  • "This Had Better Come To a Stop".
  • "Falsettoland".
  • "You Gotta Die Sometime".
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • "March of the Falsettos"
  • Also to a lesser extent, "Four Jews In a Room Bitching". While it briefly introduces the main characters of Act 1, it has little to no relevance to the actual plot of the musical, and the retelling of the story of Moses serves no purpose and is never brought up again.
• Diagnosed by the Audience
  • Jason shows signs of being somewhere on the autism spectrum throughout Act 1. He is highly intelligent for his age, but is unsure how to act in social situations, tends to fixate on specific interests, and in the revival, is shown covering his ears and looking quite distressed in one of the many scenes in which his parents yell at each other.
  • Mendel shows signs of suffering from some kind of anxiety disorder.
  • Marvin’s unstable relationships, his anger outburst at the end of Act 1 and the fact that he seemingly switches between mistreating the other characters and begging for them not to abandon him suggest that he may have Borderline Personality Disorder.
• Fridge Brilliance / Fridge Horror: There's a small shout-out in the revival to RENT, which became well-known as the other 90's musical to tackle the New York AIDS crisis and frequently features characters' watches buzzing when it's time for their AZT breaks. In the original production, right before "This Had Better Come to a Stop," everyone looked at their watches; in the revival, we hear a buzz coming from only one watch - Whizzer's.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The Bar Mitzvah.
  • Whizzer showing up to Jason's Little League game because Jason invited him. Even while Whizzer and Marvin were apart, he still stayed friends with Jason.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Hepatitis hepatitis?"
• Obscure Popularity: It has had a dedicated online fanbase since the revival, but isn’t discussed in mainstream a lot.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: Whizzer + Marvin = Whizzvin.
• Values Dissonance:
  • The frequent use of homophobic and ableist language can fall into this. Though, the 2016 revival seems to lean towards Deliberate Values Dissonance.
  • Mendel dating and later marrying Trina, who was his psychotherapy client and a recent divorcee, and becoming stepfather to Jason, another psychotherapy client, is depicted as awkward and harmless, something that is much more frowned upon today due to the power dynamics involved in blurring the professional and personal lines of therapy. To be fair, Mendel is not depicted as being a very effective therapist, and had seen neither patient for very long before developing a mutual relationship, with Jason being the one to push Mendel to act on his feelings for Trina.