The Marvin Trilogy is a trilogy of one-act musicals created by William Finn. It consists of In Trousers (1978), March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990). The musicals center on Marvin, who has left his wife to be with a male lover, Whizzer, and struggles to keep his family together. The first piece of the trilogy follows an adult Marvin recalling the formative relationships of his adolescence as he confronts his sexuality. Much of the second piece explores the impact his relationship with Whizzer has had on his family. The third piece (Falsettoland) focuses on how family dynamics evolve as Marvin and Trina plan for their son's bar mitzvah, complicated by Whizzer falling ill with an unnamed disease understood to be AIDS. Central to the musical are the themes of Jewish identity, gender roles and gay life in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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