Falsettos 2016 - Blog Posts

Whizzer definitely likes Chappel Roan and queen and yeah

Marvin likes classical music idk what it is about him that guy likes beethoven

Marvin and whizzer wouldn't get married if they could I don't think

I'm crying I just woke up

I finished this WAY faster than I thought I would (and also faster than I should have)

Enjoy!

A post in one of the falsettos communities has made me think about what month all of the characters were born so here that is

Marvin: January

Whizzer: June

Jason: November

Mendel: September (maybe also November)

Trina: March (hehe reference)

Charlotte: July

Cordelia: May

Caroline: February

These are objectively correct but I'm willing to hear other people's theories

Also censoring bald spot like wtf????

whar was the point in the proshot getting rid of a few swears when they say the word bitch 60 times in the first 3 minutes of the musical like at that point why try

"Thank you" I guess to @mintgreen-homewrecker for convincing me to read the Mendel dirt fic. Im only mildly traumatised so thanks pal. Also this is trauma bonding we are best friends now. thanks.

i drew that ^

guys I’m gonna cry I watched falsettos and it wont leave my brain

these pronouns are getting out of hand

And then he died

Sorry there’s like no plot I worked on this for 18 hours and wasn’t thinking at any point

was listening to the falsettos soundtrack on shuffle and I got just what more can I say and what would I do back to back

my day is ruined and now i’m ugly crying what about you guys

how am I following 151 falsettos people but have no friends that like it irl (one has watched it but nothing else 😔)

“Four Jews in a Room” is actually right because Marvin, Jason, Mendel, and Trina are usually seen together while Whizzer (the only half Jewish person) is more isolated and moreso the narrator of the family rather than a part of it/ in the room, so to speak

updates to the birds

I would like to share my Finch whizzer brown birds

probably been said before but what if the reason Marvin’s background is yellow on the falsettos cover (2016) is because of the ‘the room is yellow’ line

trying to draw whizzer and marvin/ figure out their faces and the best way I can describe them is a soft square (whizzer) and a pointy circle (marvin)

hey here are some theories I made (to my knowledge, if you have a similar one feel free to compare :) ), copied from my notes app:

Four Jews and March of the Falsettos are from the perspective of Trina / are inside Trina’s head:

In both songs, the men are being immature, wearing costumes, and have very repetitive lyrics (“Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch // funny, funny, funny, funny” and (“March, march, march of the Falsettos, March of the Falsettos”). Jason is portrayed as helpless/ needing Trina’s help (“In case of smoke please call our mothers on the phone…” and the covering of his eyes in MOTF, showing he is blind (or Trina what perceives him as) to the ‘struggles’/ problems in the family.

Marvin faked the STD’s (Love is Blind)

In In Trousers, Marvin, by Trina (or ‘Marvin’s Wife’, as she is referred to then), says “We lay in bed, he plays dead” so he doesn’t have time to have s3x with/ humour Trina.

In Love is Blind (MOTF), Marvin is said (again, by Trina, but also Marvin this time) to have syphillis and hepatitis, but in a following line she says “Which appears now… [hepatitis and syphillis are] …well forgotten” meaning that Trina herself never had them.

Now, that could be because Marvin used it to not have s3x in the first place, or that they did have s3x, and he used it as an excuse after to not do it again (going off of the line “I am probably diseased”). So, that means 1; that Trina never certainly knew that she had an STD (or two), or 2; she either didn’t go to the doctor, which doesn’t seem like, as they’re all described as neurotic — prone to worrying (especially considering my previous theory; Four Jews went on inside Trina’s head, the men say “we’re neurotic”, showing she also considers herself neurotic too). And so if she did go to the doctor, they didn’t find anything, because she isn’t certain. The doctors probably said to forget about it, or that’s how she interpreted her words, so she still had the inkling, but not the confirmation.

Chess — Whizzer; Queen to King

Whizzer is portrayed to resemble the queen when he and Marvin play chess, saying “I fear I’ve lost my head” used as an execution method for royalty (moreso queens), and picking up the queen instead of a pawn (this is important in my opinion because he could’ve picked up any other piece; a bishop, a rook, a knight, or even the king. I find it interesting that it was the Queen specifically).

Another thing to mention is that Whizzer is shown as the narrator (moreso in MOTF) and less of the family. He moves around the most, narrating in places that he isn’t physically in, instead metaphorically to narrate to the audience. A similarity to the Queen in chess; moving anywhere on the board, in any direction (besides the knight).

However, in act 2, when Whizzer falls ill, he stays on the hospital bed; in the hospital; in one place. In his solo (“You Gotta Die Sometime”), he moves from the bed, yes, into the chair; one square on the board. Like the King.

Cool thing I also found: in “The Chess Game”, Whizzer moves his h2 pawn to h4 and Marvin moves his h7 pawn to h5 :)

so i’m trying to make a falsettos timeline and i’ve been looking at weather forecasts from 1979 - 1981 trying to match it to the outfits they’re wearing to figure out the months and stuff like that so um yeah how do I stop

(in act 1 more specifically) whizzer pulled out big words he doesn’t know the meaning of when he argued with marvin just because

did I watch girls, black monday, the new normal, the prom, boys in the band, tbom, and a simple favour because andrew rannells was in it? yes

did I watch something rotten, smash, legally blonde the musical, dinner, little shop of horrors, and charlie and the chocolate factory just because christian borle was in it? yes

why these two specifically? falsettos

falsettos made me end up watching 13 more shows because I loved these guys’ performance so much

thank you

a little wip whizzvin fanart with a base from mellon_soup I found on pinterest :)

my friends will be talking about anything and I will link it back to falsettos or in trousers I can’t stop