Falsettos Musical - Blog Posts

You forget that he also asked his child "Where my hug at?"

marvin unironically saying “you’re looking sweeter than a donut” is insane

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

Why aren't the songs from in trousers on any major streaming platform?

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!

I love in trousers but wtf does he mean "crack your feet"

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

That one part in Whizzer going down, like if you agree

Shout out to the guy from the in trousers trinity college recording with a frequent cough he is me.

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.

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