Whizzer Brown - Blog Posts
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!
This is crazy and only 26 notes is wild
Now seems like a good time to do this
First of all, rip to William Finn, that legend is missed
But I wanted to introduce y'all to my
Falsettos binder
An entirely hand written book of all the (dialogue? Lyrics?) of the entire musical.
Based on the revival 'cause that one's my favorite.
We got: in depth analysis of every bit of significance in nearly every line. Dumb thoughts of mine. And memes.
[I'm not exaggerating when I said I went through eight packs of sticky notes]
The point
A probably incorrect timeline based on a few dates and hella real world assumptions
Pencil/colored pencil drawings featuring every character's musical assigned colors and me-assigned chess pieces
Depressing watercolor paintings
A cobbled together study on the chess pieces used in "the chess game" cause they look so strange and are never used again
An extensive study on the cube which I used to build the whole thing functionally in the real world
What I call ✨ notes on a scene✨
Which is commentary and observations of every bootleg production I've seen.
There's also an In Trouser analysis in here somewhere, but alas, I have reached the image limit.
Perhaps you can tell I'm just slightly feral for this musical and had a bit too much free time a couple months back.
Holy fuck this is amazing what
falsettos stuff cuz I got the brain worms real bad :P
No fr cuz there's like two and I don't like the voices of the creator of either
„oh, how are you felix?“
me: definitely not crying at the lack of falsettos video essays because the marvin trilogy is such a wonderful collection of cleverly crafted musicals, and my one and only desire is to become at least somewhat like howard ho and hamilton but for tmt
also me „yeah no im good!“
For the People who were wondering what song the hat was in
He won’t have to mourn over Whizzer for too long
i drew that ^
guys I’m gonna cry I watched falsettos and it wont leave my brain
Whizzer: You're over dramatic sometimes, Marvin
Marvin: what? No I'm not.
~ later that day ~
Whizzer: *wins the chess game*
Marvin: get out of this household I am done with you.
everytime someone calls a character a twink without knowing what a twink is i die a little more inside
And then he died
Sorry there’s like no plot I worked on this for 18 hours and wasn’t thinking at any point
“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
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 :)
(in act 1 more specifically) whizzer pulled out big words he doesn’t know the meaning of when he argued with marvin just because
a little wip whizzvin fanart with a base from mellon_soup I found on pinterest :)
"I love the way you kiss me
I can tell you miss me..."
Here’s the 3rd part to my Falsettos fic :).
The snowflakes dotted his brown hair, and under the scarce moonlight, he glowed like the Christmas lights littering the neighbor’s balcony.
It’s New Year’s Eve 1986 and Marvin remembers past New Years’ with Whizzer. Featuring Whizvin slow dancing and more focus on their early relationship.
This is mostly Falsettos told in dual pre-canon and post-canon timelines. It follows Whizzer from 1975 until 1982 and a couple of months in Marvin's life after the musical. I added a couple of my own characters since I wanted the fic to have a wider worldview of the AIDS crisis and the way it devastated the gay community (specifically in New York). I have two chapters out and I’ll probably update it on a weekly or biweekly basis.
What Would I Do?
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted chapter updates on here so um here is the recent one
Sorry to spam the like 20 people who actually follow me, but felt the need to catch this up to date. Oh yeah, and this remains about my favorite chapter I’ve written in a while.