 The idea to set it in the hospital came to him in a dream.According to Stephen Bogardus, who played Whizzer in the original cast of both shows as well as in "Falsettos", Lapine came up with the idea to incorporate racquetball scenes in "Falsettoland", and he and his racquetball partner, Bogardus, added racquetball terminology into the dialogue.The "haftorah" read by Jason at his bar mitzvah was originally the same one read at Finn's own bar mitzvah, but he "got bored in the middle of writing it" and added words that he enjoyed musically but are grammatically incorrect in Hebrew.