'Wherever I Fall' is a grand and moving microcosm of what makes 'Cyrano' special.
Every musical has a song that serves as a kind of thesis. It’s the tune that knocks people off their feet while serving as a summary of the core ideas of the whole production. Typically dropping in the middle of the story, to replicate how Broadway musicals usually drop a similar song right before intermission, these songs can emerge as “96,000” in In the Heights, “Let It Go” in Frozen, or, in the case of the new Joe Wright musical Cyrano, the moving song “Wherever I Fall.
The actual portrait of love, rather than the perfect vision that terrifies de Bergerac, is reflected throughout the lyrics of “Wherever I Fall.” The second guard speaks not about postcard-perfect romantic dates with the girl he’s writing to, but rather all about how he should’ve talked to her more. The third soldier, meanwhile, especially epitomizes the imperfections of love in waxing poetic about his father, who was prone to fights. “He wasn't one of God's best men,” he remarks.
The limited mobility of the camera is often a way to suggest how trapped characters like Cyrano are in their uncertainty over what to do in the name of romance. Meanwhile, the nonchalant backdrops, as well as how a sudden burst of singing can enter a scene otherwise devoid of harmonizing, emphasize how emotions associated with romance can creep into any part of mundane existence.
On paper, “Wherever I Fall” shouldn’t work as a tune. It deals with characters the audience has never seen before, for one thing, while leaning so hard on vividly real notions of impending death could feel tonally dissonant with the heightened romantic vibes of Cyrano. In execution, though, it doesn’t just work, it manages to come off as a song that this musical couldn’t exist without.
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