i know nothing about falsettos but i found this while looking for legally blonde clips and good god this video has been making me sooo emotional recently😭 i’m queer, but even without being queer this makes me think of my friends so much i guess. 💝:( i just love them sooo so much!!! i hope i never live on an earth where they die before i do. i want to hold them all forever n forever. thank you michael rupert for your absolutely beautiful voice🌷🌷🌷 maybe i’ll get into falsettos sometime…

hearing his voice just makes me want to faint on spot

"what would i-" on the floor. bawling. shedding tears.

they get to be old, which whizzer and martin (at least implied) never got to... what a gorgeous, awful extra level of poignancy

What year was the LA production?

this never fails to make me cry

Thank you for sharing this in such an accessible format. Once I find the sheet music, it's gonna be my next audition song. Thank you, Michael.

this is a groundbreaking performance for a Broadway show.. You are seeing two men in a bed, singing a love song, one is married to a woman and father of a kid. The other is dying of AIDS. And this is ten years after La Cage was seen as a groundbreaking performance.

An absolute perfect moment in theater... this opened in nyc in 1990!!!!! We all had just lost lovers and friends and it was still raging without any meds. Vowing to "buy the farm arm in arm" was and still is the most moving loving words to hear so beautifully sung

Back here in February 2024! We just came across this, even though I did subscribe to your channel at some point. Just this morning, I found myself singing "A Blank Piece of Paper" from MAIL. Oh how I wish there was a cast album for that. The score and show was brilliant, fun, funny, moving. Would you consider releasing those songs now on Spotify? Asking for a friend! Hope you are having a good 2024 start.

Mmmm…gorgeous guy gorgeously singing a gorgeous song! Nothing to complain about here.

So glad I had this to give you! ;) Much love!

He was so fantastic in this. So much energy in his performance. And he just took stage big time! I worked with him once a long time ago. Shakespeare's Cabaret. He was great to work with also. A+++

every time I listen to this song I sob. I can't ever sit through without tears streaming from my face. A dream show, I hope I get to see it live in the future.

I was lucky enough to see you perform in Falsettoland at the Lucille Lortel in I think 1992. As a young gay guy this number broke my heart into a thousand pieces. It still does, and I love it.

2:52 ☹️

this made me realise that christian borle was the perfect casting choice for marvin wow

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This song gives me chills everytime

This makes me sob 😭 every version of this

I loved this song, your performance, (and the nifty stage effect) when I saw "Mail" on Broadway. Any chance of getting a piano/vocal copy of the song, Mr. Rupert?

Such a great song. Rupert nails it!

the chemistry between the characters are amazing

wish more revivals would use this version

Weezer is kinda cold here. I like Andrew the most specially in “I’m sick, but kicking” hehehhe. And I totally connect with Marvin here, a man showing his feelings to his lover. Wow! 😔

Michael Rupert has one of the best voices on Broadway, no doubt.

Love these handsome men

Just lovely Michael, as always <3

Are they gay or european?

The perfect way to end the original MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS and Act One of FALSETTOS ... and NOBODY could ever match Michael Rupert singing the part of "Marvin" in those more tender numbers.

this rendition of this song is so beautiful! Him and Christian can really both pull off this character.

😢😢🥺🥺

Perfection.

This is so beautiful

Consummate performer. Worked with him once a long time ago and he was extremely professional and just excellent. Great to see this.

What a shame we don't get to see a video of his remarkable performance. He was just incredible.

Saw him on an episode, season 1 of the Walton's.

awewsome recording and glad it is on here :)

THEY STILL GOT IT!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I LOVE FALSETTOS🥺😭😭

The clapping was like 👏🔕👏🔕👏🔕👏🔕

Literally amazing. Flawless

Soooo Do you like better Micheal or Christian? Just a taste questiinn

Dang! Maybe that's why Christian was casted as Marvin. They almost have the same tone

Nope still heartbreaking 😭

The intro makes me cry everytime

Wonderful clip! I saw Sweet Charity (this cast) at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion around this same time, & really appreciate getting to hear this beautiful version of the title song again. Thanks for sharing!

The beauty of creating these characters is that the performances look and sound so in the moment. Subsequent revivals, as good as the latest is, are played more like a show, bigger. This technically antique clip still plays almost like a movie. Intimate, organic acting. We were sad because Mr Rupert and Mr Bogardus played against it.

His voice is velvet

So beautiful ❤️

4:14 No matter what cast, that harmony is absolutely golden.