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AND NOW IVE FOUND MY LOOOOOVEEEE IVE FOUND MY WAY TO LOOOOVEEEE IVE FINALLY FOUND MY PRIIIIIZEEEEEE (cause if there ever was a perfect couple, this one qualifies!!!!!!!!!)

Falsettos is my favorite musical and I've lost count of the times I've seen it, but for some reason it just hit me that when Marvin says "I left my kid, I left my wife, to be with you", it's a direct answer to Whizzer's "All your life you wanted men, and when you got it up to have them, who knew it would end your life?"

Because Whizzer is talking about AIDS. He's been an openly gay man for much longer, he's been with other men, and he knows how repressed Marvin was. So, he's commenting on how tragic it is that now that Marvin allowed himself to enjoy this, they'll both end up dead.

But Marvin knew he'd lose his life for this. He had a tight knit family, perfectly patriarchal, and he put it all on the line in the name of Whizzer's affections. And they're both stubborn and they're both drowning in toxic masculinity and so neither of them actually admitted this simple truth: Whizzer was afraid of loving Marvin because he thought all he wanted was sex.

It takes Whizzer's death for them to finally fix their greatest misunderstanding. Finally Whizzer says "I'm sorry it's over, now that you could have the sex you wanted", and Marvin replies "It wasn't the sex, it was you. I'd end my life again if it meant I could live with you. I did it before already".

And I'd like to believe that I'd do it again, and again, and again.

Random tidbit of m' Little Shop AU I wanna share while I'm drawin cus I think it's funny

CW: slightly suggestive?? Dunno, It's about Seymour n Orin lol — Long post

So in some fanart I've drawn, Orin has his vinyl apron on—and in some, he doesn't!! Most of th' time, that's a design detail I purposefully leave out. (But also sometimes I jus forget.)

All his does is take his apron off, but in a strangely intimate way—by nev'r breaking eye contact n throwin in a very obvious; "ya like what you see?" When he's done. (I guess your could think of it almost like a strip tease lol)

But in m' au: Orin "undresses" to make Seymour more comfortable (which does quite the opposite) in the scene b'fore 'Now (It's Just The Gas).'

Which leaves Seymour confused n (naturally) flustered because... what t'fuck??? Then Orin sticks his fingers in Seymour's mouth, without gloves on, n yada yada—Now (It's Just The Gas) happens n Orin Scrivello, D.D.S, fuckin dies.

Which.. plays out very similar, but not exact, t' th' 2009 UK Tour version: with Alex Ferns as Orin.

Cus... Orin running at Seymour wit an axe, bein extra touchy while high, rippin open his tunic (then posin like Jesus against a wall;) n then dyin on top of Seymour after tryin to kill him wit a dagger—is fuckin hilarious t' me.

More falsettos headcanons I pulled out my butt/made up on the spot

-anytime whizzer walks past Marvin that ass is getting a slap. Everytime

-all of them would love little shop of horrors. I am projecting

-marvin has the worst fucking handwriting ever

-Mendel is the shitest driver ever

-Trina can paint. She’s an amazing painter say it TRINA IS AMAZING AT PAINTING. I HAVE A FUCKING GUN TO YOUR HEAD. COMPLIMENT HER FUCKING PAINTING

-I’m saying this again because it’s oh so special to me but Marvin plays piano he tried to teach Jason but Jason did not give a single fuck

-Cordelia has those weird aunt wall decors that say something like uhh eat with big fork and spoon behind the word eat in cursive

PREACH

literally them :D

AHHHHH HAVE FUN!!!!!!

woahhh i just noticed you're from scotland!! i'm visiting edinburgh rn :)

THATS SO COOL!! DEFO GO SEE SOME STUFF AT EITHER THE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE OR THE FESTIVAL THEATRE WHILST YOURE THERE!! XX

woahhh i just noticed you're from scotland!! i'm visiting edinburgh rn :)

THATS SO COOL!! DEFO GO SEE SOME STUFF AT EITHER THE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE OR THE FESTIVAL THEATRE WHILST YOURE THERE!! XX

Maybe draw Trina when she’s about to marry Marvin

What a happy bride, I sure hope nothing bad happens

Jason Michael Snow @JMSPinaforeBest present ever!! Obviously he’s named Mothra. #hellomormon #japaneseelders

Rory O’Malley @RoryOMalley Mine’s Soy Sauce!

top three fav emojis go

♥️🍒💥

Sobbing (relistening to falsettos) and just thinking of all the implications a short phrase in Jason’s Bar Mitzvah.

“Son of Marvin, Son of Trina, son of whizzer, son of mendal, and godchild to the lesbians from next door” honestly sent me into a spiral and led me to tears

Naturally Jason is the son of Marvin and Trina (and step son to Mendal), but for his relationship with whizzer to be referred to as that of father and son and not l friends, as it is treated/allueded to in the rest of the musical just makes my heart ache. Jason never referred to whizzer as a father figure and in no way would it be really recognized by and outsider as a father son dynamic, they aren’t related and it’s not like whizzer actually adopted him or became his step dad like mendal did. And yet it their relationship is highlighted before Jason and mendal’s.

“And godchild to the lesbians from next door” this is obviously a decision made by Marvin and we don’t know when it happened, it could’ve happened when he wasn’t in a good place inbetween acts and wanted to ensure Jason would have someone or it could’ve been off screen sometime after Whizzer became ill. It was obviously a decision that Trina also approved of or at least knew about before mendal saying it. And maybe for similar reasons she was ok with having charlotte and Cordelia as his god mothers.

Would Trina honor the split custody even after Marvin died? Just sending Jason to spend time with charlotte and Cordelia to honor Marvin’s memory and stuff? Or would they just become more like fun aunt’s that would take him out sometimes, I mean we know they frequently went to his baseball games afterall.

Anyways I’m crying. I love this musical, never fails to make me cry

Rewatching Falsettos I was suddenly struck by an epiphany that I’m sure someone else has had at some point, but I needed to write out. This ending scene from “March of the Falsettos” jumped out at me from the first watching, but even though I recognised the nod to the “See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil (and lesser known do no evil)”, I didn’t know what it meant. Today, I tried to piece it together, and I think I’ve gotten it. These poses represent core attributes of the characters, as well as Trina’s view of them, so click the read more to hear the ravings of a mad man wayyyyyy too obsessed with this show

The idea of ‘evil’ to me is very loose. It can represent a lot of things for these characters; their actions towards each other, their character flaws, etc. But, for this analysis, one can replace ‘evil’ with ‘truth’. Each of the characters refuses to see, speak, hear, or ‘do’ the truth (please excuse the lack of grammar for that last one), and that is where the ‘evil’ stems from. Taking into account this is mostly based on Trina’s view of the men, I think ‘truth’ fits in well.

Let’s start with the one who fits in least— Jason. “March of the Falsettos” is a physical manifestation of how Trina views the men in her life (as childish and immature), but some slack is given to her son. He doesn’t sing his lines in falsetto, because we acknowledge he is in fact a child, and has more of an excuse to act as such. So, take his analysis with a grain of salt. The boy has every right to be a little selfish— he’s 10.

So, Jason has his hands over his eyes, representing ‘See No Evil’. This is a direct nod to his character flaw; his view of the world with him at the center. Although his parents are less than good to him, he still sees them through unfair lenses— ‘My mother’s no wife/My father’s no man’. He sings ‘everybody’s yelling and everybody’s ruining it’ in “Everyone Hates His Parents” because he is unhappy with how his Bar Mitzvah is turning out and wants to simply cancel it. He doesn’t have a concept of doing things for other people (again, he’s a child, I’m not blaming him per se), so he is blind to the will of others and refuses to see their side. In addition to this, even when Mendel tells him Whizzer will most likely die, Jason pleads with G-d to save him. He still views himself as the center of his world, thus Mendel’s line ‘Life’s not all about him’.

In addition to this, his ‘See No Evil’ means something when thought about from Trina’s perspective. She thinks her son is blind to the truth of the world, this son who stays inside playing chess alone, this son who ‘seems like an idiot to [Trina]’. She worries Jason will turn out like these other men in her world, blind to everyone but himself.

Now we come to Mendel, who has his hand over his mouth in ‘Speak No Evil’. Mendel’s flaw throughout the show is his refusal to accept the truth of any situation. He tells Jason to ‘feel alright for the rest of your life’ instead of actually trying to help, he is ‘frightened of questions’, he repeats over and over ‘I’ll make you well’ to Whizzer in the hospital. He will never say anything negative, nor will he allow others to do so. Even in the end of the show, he tells Jason they don’t know ‘when or if’ Whizzer will get better— he is still not accepting that it’s a definite thing. He believes that if he and those around him just don’t speak about the real problems, they’ll go away.

Trina’s view on Mendel is complicated here. In the next song she agrees to marry him, of course, and we know she at least likes him (the most of all three adults she knows). She says that Mendel ‘decides the role to assume’. She looks down on the fact that he can’t speak the truth to her, that he’s expecting this happy wife, this perfect new family. He wants her to play along with him and make their home together, even if she sings ‘liking our lives’ instead of loving. Even if he’s better than Marvin ever was, there’s still an element of control here. Mendel wants this family, and he wants them to all pretend nothing is ever wrong again.

Marvin, our titular character, is in the ‘Hear No Evil’ position. This one is fairly straight forward— he wants control and will never listen to the needs of those around him. He can’t hear what they actually need, he simply does what he wants. He also struggles with his masculinity throughout Act 1, his outward misogyny and need for the nuclear family (his treatment of Trina and Whizzer), so he imagines himself at the top of his family system. He will never take any other opinions, or counsel, in his decisions, seeing that as weakness. He’s similar to Jason in this regard, as he only hears what he wants to (like Jason only sees what he wants). He ignores the pain around him to pursue his own desires, he covers his ears and moves on.

Trina, of course, despises Marvin at this point in the show. Her subconscious showing Marvin in ‘Hear No Evil’ can tell us a lot about their relationship, how she was never seen as equal in decisions. Marvin always put her to the side, not listening to her needs, acting without thinking of her.

Whizzer is complicated. I’ve seen people laugh at his pose before, saying we’ve got ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, and Gay’, but I think he represents the ‘Do No Evil’. This final character is not often seen with the other three, and can be depicted with arms over the chest or covering the genitals. It wouldn’t make sense to have Whizzer be the outlier (especially because the fourth depiction of evil does exist), so I’m assuming he is supposed to be ‘Do No Evil’.

This fits in well with Whizzer’s flaws throughout the show. He doesn’t accept responsibility for his relationship with Marvin; seen in the lines ‘I’m not responsible’ during “Late For Dinner” or ‘I will not accept blame’ in “Games I Play”. He sleeps around, despite Marvin wanting monogamy, and clearly did not have an issue hooking up with a married man. Whizzer fundamentally doesn’t think his actions have consequences, he believes he has done nothing wrong (he has done no evil). Whizzer also has a hard time admitting to his love for Marvin. He says it ‘depends on the day’, he flat out says ‘no’ when asked if he loves him. He doesn’t want to show his love for fear of being too vulnerable, so he hides and doesn’t do anything about it.

To take this even further, him being ‘Do No Evil’ can represent his later question of ‘why me of all men’ when he is dying. He hasn’t done anything to deserve his death, and ‘all men get what they deserve’, right?

Moving on to how Trina sees Whizzer. He’s come into her life and ruined her marriage, though she ‘wants to hate him’ she can’t. She views him as the cause of her recent hardships, his actions being to blame. He is ‘Do No Evil’ to her because he has done evil in taking Marvin away (though it is obvious Trina is better off because of it). He has upset the careful balance of her world by breaking down the lies of her marriage and exposing the truth— Marvin never loved her, could never love her. She puts him in ‘Do No Evil’ because what he has done is what the rest of the men won’t— see, hear, speak the truth even at the detriment of her family.

Another way to view this is, of course, the fact that ‘Do No Evil’ is rarely seen with the others. Trina is separating Whizzer from the other men, not putting him in the same category as the rest of the ‘family’. He views himself as an outsider as well, yes he’s part of the group, but only as a technicality. Only as Marvin’s lover. Once he leaves Marvin, he is easily taken out of the equation and the remaining three do not feel the loss.

My conclusion is such: Each of the poses our men do represents the character flaw they must overcome throughout the show, as well as how Trina views them in her mind. I really hope this made any sort of sense, and if someone has already said all of this well… I guess it can’t hurt to be thorough.

I’m way too tired to read through this again so if there are spelling mistakes please print out this post, correct it in red pen, and send it to me by carrier pigeon.

yall me and my mum just watched lsoh and she said her favourite was orin... except she didn't call him orin she called him the - "mean greasy dentist man" 💀💀

falsettos + under pressure (mcr cover :3) !!!

idea by @ponyayr! hope this lived up to your vision :)

HAPPY LSOH DAY!!!!!! I waited for the right moment to post this.../this took me way too long to paint :')/

😭

Here’s this scene with the audio enhanced and captions that are hopefully accurate because not knowing what they were saying used to drive me crazy

CHRISTIAN BORLE >>>>>>>

COULDNT'VE PUT IT BETTER MYSELF!!

happy mcpriceley monday! ! !

CHAT PLEASE HEAR ME OUT ON A FALSETTOS UNDER PRESSURE EDIT I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD AGGHHRRR

"insanity laughs under pressure, we're breaking" - i never wanted to love you

"can't we give ourselves one more chance?" - falsettoland/about time marvin

"why can't we give love just one more chance?" - the baseball game whizzvin

"why can't we give love?give love?give love?give love?" - whizzer and marvin, mendel and trina, charlotte and cordelia, everyone with jason

"'cause love's such an old-fashioned word" - what more can i say

"and love dares you to care for the people on the-" - end of act 1 marvin

"-edge of the night" - the games i play whizzer

"and love dares you to change our way of..." - act 1 everyone

"caring about ourselves" - act 2 everyone

"this is our last dance" - unlikely lovers

"this is our last dance" - jason's bar mitzvah

"this is ourselves" - falsettoland reprise

"under pressure"

(apologies if this makes zero sense i wrote this at like four am )

what if marvin and mendel were high school friends and mendels "psychiatrist" title is a sort of metaphor for the the role he plays in marvins life. so when trina asks mended to speak with jason she's really asking mendel because he was marvins friend in high-school so he should probably know him best thereby would know how to help marvin and subsequently jason, marvins son.

also when "marvin hits trina" mendel seems knows how to deal with marvins outbursts or "giddy seizures". (what if "marvins giddy seizures" the song from *in trousers* is supposed to be sung by mendel??)

Pros of hyperfixiation:

Happy!

Art ideas

Life is good

Cons of hyperfixiation:

I am going to blow up

All my art is of the same guy

If I don't think about this 24/7 I get violent

when whizzer gets hospitalized marvin starts wearing his jacket. If anyone cares.

Christian was that kid in school

cute thing im coming up with

this picrew of yourself and your current hyperfixation !!

no pressure tags @pearlzier @julesssyy @reidsfavoritegirl @whitney23317 @willowsblanket @flowercrownsandtrauma @rottenletter