#falsettos obc

[sh0rt-insomniac]

this had better come to an end

#falsettos #falsettos obc #obc falsettos #marvin falsettos #whizzer falsettos #mendel falsettos #trina falsettos #jason falsettos

[phierecycled]

i just read an article and apparently jonathan kaplan (who played jason in the falsettos obc and was 11 at the time), watched his voice teacher who helped him through the show's auditions decline and eventually die from aids related illness during the show's previews.

in this same article michael rupert mentioned how there would be patients who came and saw the show and would go to the stage door just to be near the performers and tell them how much the story meant to them.

one day, heather macrae (charlotte) attended the funeral of her friend paul jabra and immediately after went straight to the theatre to perform in the evening show.

stephen bogardus recalls leaving the theatre and walking through the audience (about 15 minutes after the show had finished) and people would still be there holding each other.

#i feel like what can be so easy to forget is that even though falsettos was on broadway in 1992 which is over 10 years after #the first cases of aids were reported it was only in 1992/93 that the epidemic was reaching its peak #like it was at its worst when falsettos was playing 8 shows a week #i don't know how they did it #mentally and emotionally #falsettos #falsettos obc

[catboymoses]

#you guys still like these right? #falsettos #marvin falsettos #marvin trilogy #falsettos obc #march of the falsettos #mendel weisenbachfeld #falsettos 2016

[frothingbeerbottles]

It makes me SOOOO angry when people draw Marvin (especially revival Marvin) as some skinny or buff hairless pre-teen or just not the chubby body type he actually has. He’s a full grown man with body hair, he also has a lot of internalised homophobia and misogyny, he wouldn’t be shaving or grooming himself at all. He’s also definitely got more chub in act 2 than act 1 (I am an avid lover of gaining weight to symbolise happiness btw) but he definitely has it in act 1 too. He also has wrinkles, aging imperfections and he’s probably got chubby features/‘imperfections’ (e.x. Hip dips, stretch marks, rolls, rough patches of skin where its been stretched/pushed together). I do also hate when people draw Whizzer skinny when he, in fact, is muscled/toned and well groomed but he also is a young/middle aged adult, who is confirmed to have body/leg hair. Bottom line is, Marvin AND Whizzer aren’t little twinks, Whizzer is a muscley jock and Marvin is a grown ass middle aged man!

#falsettos #falsettos 2016 #falsettos obc #marvin falsettos #whizzer brown #march of the falsettos #falsettoland #falsettos revival

[dyke-ulaura]

I love how in the obc Marvin is staring at Whizzer up until he turns and hits Trina. It’s a lot less deliberate than his rampage in the revival, he’s truly not thinking about anything other than what Whizzer has just said.

#I have a longish analysis on marvin hits trina in the revival and obc that I’ve yet to finish. #sorry obc lovers but I think I might be siding with the revival overall #but this part of the obc I love #falsettos #falsettos obc

[witlesswitnesstm]

I am a firm Marvin Gardens BPD/NPD truther, so here’s all my evidence.

This is a very long post, so buckle up.

• Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Let’s go through the symptoms he shows, shall we?

- Has unreasonably high sense of self importance, and requires constant admiration:

Marvin, especially as a child, exhibits a large amount of grandiosity. This is most evident in How Marvin eats his breakfast and My Highschool Sweetheart.

He thinks of himself as above the maid staff and he constantly threatens/accuses them. Then he’s given the role of Columbus, and highly identifies with him to the point where he claims he *is* Columbus. That he’s this grand explorer, who’s the king of the ocean. He believes he’s powerful because of the role.

Then as an adult, Marvin has a constant need for adoration. He needs people (like Whizzer and Trina) to love and want him in songs like Thrill of first love and This had better come to a stop. That might even be a reason he got with Trina in the first place. He wanted to feel needed, without the responsibility of having to love back.

Not to mention the line “Kid. Be my son.” In Father to son. He wants Jason to fulfill the role as his son (and subsequently love him), not really acknowledging he’s his own person. But he still deeply cares about Jason, and wants him to succeed, he just does it through the only lense he understands; himself. Also, I noticed that Marvin literally moves the chess board aside and makes Jason face him during that song, even though he clearly doesn’t want to.

- Believes they deserve special privileges or treatment:

The R of Ms. Goldberg shows Marvin is obsessed with getting what he wants, for no other reason besides the fact that he wants it. It’s also implied that he didn’t even necessarily have the acting skills required to be Columbus, Ms. Goldberg just conceded because he kept pestering her. He believed he deserved it, so he got it.

- Make achievements and talents bigger than they actually are:

Again, Marvin obsessed over being a star actor. He also consistently exaggerates his intelligence with lines like “I can read her like a book” in How Marvin eats his breakfast and “I'm not so rich but hell I'm smart.” In This had better come to a stop.

In I never wanted to love you, Marvin also claims that he’s in demand, when he’s most likely not and is just trying to cover for his ego.

- Preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, brilliance

Oh wow. Ok, so we all know about the metaphor for games at this point. Marvin loves winning, he literally says it’s everything to him. He also says that he wants it all multiple times which is just, really driving home the point that he craves success and power over everything else.

Marvin is also characterized as being rich, which again emphasizes his need for success. I’m thinking he climbed the corporate ladder for the sole objective of looking like he’s successful.

Side note, I think the reason he never acknowledges how rich he is might be because he’s ashamed of being a trust fund baby. He had a whole maid staff as a kid, so it’s implied his parents had mad stacks. He might’ve sought success outside his parents’ money so that it was his own accomplishment, not his family’s.

I want to touch on My chance to survive the night, specifically the line “I played a game. She was as cute as a dime and couldn't spell. I asked her to spell my name. That's it for girls.” Marvin has a history of using games as a basis for breaking up with people because of his insecurity, even before Chess game. He gets a lot better with this in act 2, and this is evident in the racquetball matches. He seems a little unconfident, but he’s not devastated by it in the way he would be before.

I’ve mentioned this in a separate post, but The r of Ms. Goldberg can also be interpreted as a fantasy for power, since Marvin isn’t actually interested in having sex with Ms. Goldberg, and instead just wants to have control over her.

- Is critical and looks down on people they feel aren’t important:

Marvin consistently ignores his sweetheart even when she begs for his attention. When she tries to tell him she’s a person, he calls her ridiculous.

Marvin also just generally acted out as a child because he considered everyone as beneath him.

This trait is especially highlighted In Tight Knit family reprise, where he just straight up talks shit about Mendel, not being able to believe that Trina can love him. It’s also shown in Marvin hits Trina, that he dislikes her platitudes and expects substance from her, and then goes on to again beg for admiration with the line “How could you ever deny what we had?”

- Expects others to do what they ask without question:

This is best shown in This had better come to a stop and Chess game. Marvin expects Whizzer to play the housewife, while not acknowledging that he’s his own person.

This is also displayed in Tight Knit family, where he expects everyone to go along with his perfect vision of what a family should be.

- Has an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others:

This is most clear with Sweetheart and Trina. As I’ve said, Marvin blatantly ignores sweetheart’s attempts to love him, and completely disregards her. I want to note how he does this in favor of being attached to Ms. Goldberg and playing Columbus which are his power fantasies, essentially.

This trait is also shown in Breakfast over Sugar when Marvin basically tells Trina to shut up and that she’ll get over it when she’s having a a pretty expected emotional outburst to him divorcing her. He completely disregards her feelings, showing no empathy to her.

- Acts arrogantly:

This can just be interpreted as confidence but Marvin says that he loves being himself multiple times over the course of In trousers.

• Borderline Personality Disorder

- A strong fear of abandonment:

This ties into Marvin’s need for admiration, but he constantly asks others for validation, and even doesn’t want Trina to find new partners because he interprets it as abandonment of his family.

There’s also the workshop version of This had better come to a stop, which is all about how Marvin is terrified that Whizzer’s going to leave him again in act 2, but he tries to bury all those feelings down so that he doesn’t appear needy. One of the lines is “I sit here and slowly rot. Wait for Whizzer, wait for answers, and get none.” Which just really nails down this point.

There’s also Unlikely lovers, when Marvin refuses to leave Whizzer’s side in the hospital.

- A pattern of unstable, intense relationships:

I’m sure we all know where this is going.

Marvin has a lot of opinions about Trina. He says that he thinks she’s perfect in I have a family, but that at the same time, he says that he hates her in I swear I won’t ever again.

His wants are contradictory. He wanted Trina to leave him alone when he divorced her, but couldn’t accept that she married Mendel. Also, he fights with Trina consistently, even throughout Act 2.

Onto Whizzer, their relationship is driven solely by chaotic passion. Their relationship is *built* on fighting and making up with hate sex.

Whizzer has no idea how to feel about Marvin because of how unstable he is. Marvin can be gentle, but he expects everything to go his way. He’s affectionate but highly judgemental. (Then again, so is Whizzer.)

- Quick changes in how they view themself:

This is best shown in Your Lips and Me reprise. Marvin goes from hating who he was and what he did to Ms. Goldberg to having a whole ass victory song about how he loves being himself.

This might be sarcasm, but Marvin is also self deprecating in Tight knit family reprise, with the lyric “I'm too damn peeved, self-absorbed, self-deceived. Who knows?”

- Periods of stress related paranoia and loss of contact with reality

This is a stretch, but Marvin’s exes always hovering around him in In trousers might be paranoia about his past manifesting itself. This is especially clear in I can’t sleep and Your lips and Me reprise where they physically interact with him, preventing him from sleeping or reminding him of his past.

- Impulsive/risky behavior:

Bro got multiple STDs, presumably from unsafe sex. Also, it’s implied that he also got HIV after Whizzer.

Hitting Trina could also be seen as impulsive behavior.

- Wide mood swings:

This is where Marvin’s giddy seizures comes in. He has periods of extreme laughter and giddiness, sporadically.

- Inappropriate levels of anger

Marvin hits Trina. I mean, what else do I have to say? This whole song is about Marvin’s anger taking over his actions and causing physical harm because of it. He also shows inappropriate anger when he brings out Whizzer’s belongings after the Chess game.

Ok Jesus Christ that was a lot of words. Keep in mind that these are just my headcanons and you’re allowed to interpret Marvin in any way you want.

Also I don’t have these disorders myself and I’m not a professional psychologist or anything so let me know if I got some things wrong. I just care way too much about the Marvin Trilogy and I’m also interested in becoming a psychologist.

#falsettos #marvin trilogy #in trousers #marvin falsettos #falsettos 2016 #falsettos obc #I have thought too much about this #god someone save me #character analysis #google ​how do I stop a hyperfixation?

[iloveandrewrannells]

some falsettos workshop lyrics that make me sob, enjoy!

#falsettos #falsettos 2016 #falsettos obc #falsettos workshop #falsettoland #march of the falsettos #andrew rannells #chip zien #stephen bogardus #musicals #lol sobbing

[notquite-docbirdy]

Little things from the 1993 Falsettos that I love

Literally anything Chip Zein does

Bitching at the bed

The almost kisses are torture

Mavin introducing Jason to Whizzer

They're so fucking dramatic

These karate moves

More drama

I love that at the end of this one of them goes "MWAH!"

"It's queer Mr. Marvin..oops" and when Marvin says "What gives with you today?" (and basically all of Marvin at the psychiatrist)

Pinch

The way Michael Rupert sings "That's what pretty boys should do!"

I love Breaking Down in the revival but something about this staging just gets me

Honestly same Mendel

This little heel kick

Whatever the fuckl this is

More fantastic staging

Marvin throwing a tantrum

Stop I love them

I don't know what this choreography is but I love it

Get it Jason

"What was the name of that BITCH?"

"I wanna see the BALD SPOT!"

Cordelia braiding Charlotte's hair in Everything Will be Alright

The way Heather MacRae sings "Do you know how great my life is."

Boop

Marvin's little victory lap

"You people are so white."

"Look at your couch it's homo-baroque."

I wish this was in the revival

:,)

Marvin whispering "Stop, stop" during this scene always gets me

This little I love you gesture breaks my heart

He's so fucking over this

Guy's we're in a hospital keep it down, jesus

Marvin's soft "Oh, fuck." at the end of Something Bad is Happening (reprise)

When Whizzer leaves the stage for the final time he doesn't exit through the door and I don't know the symbolism in that just makes me sob

I probably overall prefer the pacing and staging of the revival, but the obc is so so fucking good. Thank you for coming to my TED talk

#falsettos #falsettos obc #did I make myself cry while making this? #maybe

[t4tcecilos]

“GOD breast- what.. OH!!!”

#HES SO FUNNY #im rlly liking mendel in obc hes so goofy and its perfect #falsettos #falsettos obc #mendel weisenbachfeld #posts #have to go to work so cant watxh anymore rn :(

[im-what-killed-the-dinosaurs]

#funny #funny memes #funny stuff #funny shit #funny post #theatre kid #broadway #musical theater kid #musical theatre #theater kid #falsettos fanart #whizzer falsettos #marvin gardens #whizzer brown #falsettos #the marvin trilogy #marvin falsettos #falsettos 2016 #falsettos musical #falsettos obc #falsettos revival #christian borle

[gladthatwefoundyouhere]

quick redraw of my fav falsettos image ever

#i didn’t capture their expressions as well as i’d have liked to but i still like the end result #falsettos #march of the falsettos #falsettos obc #whizzer brown #marvin falsettos #stephen bogardus #michael rupert

[sh0rt-insomniac]

they’re sitting and watching jason play baseball !!

#falsettos #falsettos obc #mendel falsettos #trina falsettos #my sillies #i love them so much jesus christ

[phierecycled]

The final scene of Falsettos: Hartford Stage, Original Broadway Cast, Revival

#hartford stage did it best and i stand by that #falsettos #falsettoland #broadway #falsettos obc #falsettos revival

[catboymoses]

#falsettos #marvin falsettos #jason falsettos #falsettos obc #falsettos 2016

[frothingbeerbottles]

Marvin and Whizzer lighting two cigarettes by using Whizzer’s very faint burning one and putting them together so it lights Marvin’s. Post

#falsettos #marvin falsettos #whizzer brown #falsettos obc #whizzvin #the casual intimate feeling of lighting someone else’s cigarette with your own

[whizzvin-welcome-here]

Iconic falsettos lyrics that didn’t make it into the revival (pt1):

- ‘It’s queer Mr Marvin - sorry’ ‘Jesus’ ‘It’s weird Mr Marvin’

- ‘Did she ever drive you wild?’ ‘No’ ‘Never?’ ‘No’ ‘Never?’ ‘No’ ‘Never, never, never, never?’ ‘No’ ‘Never?’ ‘No’ ‘Never’ ‘No no no!’

- ‘And your last caress was—’ ‘Careless’ ‘You mean careful?’ ‘Careful not to show she cared’

- ‘Reason will win the day, trust me! Mother never lies’

- ‘This has better be a goodbye, Whizzer / this has better end in a wink of an eye’

- ‘Don’t get angry / you don’t improve things yelling / tell him he’s a lousy, stinking fool / and then forget that / that blood was let / he probably regrets it / anyhow / it doesn’t matter now’

- ‘Have you learned to forget?’ ‘It’s not easy to forget’ ‘I forget why the hell I’m here’

- ‘I’m sick to try / I’m too prepared / I’m duly warned / and newly scared / my life is now on trial: / I smile’

- ‘Maybe sometimes I’m afraid / The maid is more your style’ ‘He isn’t very bright’ ‘He goes to school at night’ ‘He’s learning—’ ‘English lit’ ‘He’s learning how to speak the language’

- ‘Nothing is everything to me / Except sex’ ‘Watch the queen’ ‘And money’ ‘And money’ ‘And money’ ‘And money’ ‘And money’ ‘And money’ ‘And money’ ‘And money’ ‘And money’

#falsettos #falsettos obc #falsettos 2016 #bill finn #broadway #falsettos revival #william finn #musicals