 AIDS activist and playwright of "The Normal Heart" Larry Kramer attended a performance of the 2016 "Falsettos" revival.Andrew Rannells, who portrayed Whizzer, noted that seeing Kramer in the audience while singing "You Gotta Die Sometime" left him "completely wrecked" due to his admiration for Kramer's activism in support of the LGBT community and HIV-positive people.Charles Isherwood of "The New York Times" asserts that definitions of masculinity form "a sharp undercurrent in the show".