During this year's annual Tony awards recognizing Broadway theater, Whoopi Goldberg took to the stage to announce that the musical revival of “Falsettos” would be hitting movie theaters nationwide starting July 12.

Now it's time for the filmed version of the musical, which played at Lincoln Center Theater in New York, to hit the big screen. Falsettos might have been nominated for five Tonys that evening, but a deal had been negotiated long before the June 11 awards broadcast to make the stage production into a piece of event cinema.

Lawyers involved in the negotiations took Corporate Counsel behind the scenes of how Falsettos made its way to movie theaters. The musical, written 25 years ago during the AIDS crisis, tells the story of a gay man, Marvin, his wife, lover, son, their psychiatrist and their lesbian neighbors.