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𝐹𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑠: 𝐺𝑖𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑦𝑠, 𝑁𝑎𝑛𝑎, 𝐽𝑢𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑢 𝐾𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑛, 𝐹𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑡, 𝑂𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝐻𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑏, 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑘𝑦𝑢𝑢, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑚𝑎𝑛, 𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑠 𝑂𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑖𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝐺ℎ𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑖 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒, 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑥 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑆𝑎𝑖𝑘𝑖 𝐾, 𝑀𝑜𝑏 𝑝𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜, 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝐹𝑖𝑠ℎ, 𝐶𝑜𝑤𝑏𝑜𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑝, 𝐵𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙, 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒, 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑏, 𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑠ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛, 10 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠, final fantasy, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝐺𝑎𝑡𝑠𝑏𝑦, 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎, 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑠, 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛, 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑡𝑜𝑛, 𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠, 𝑆𝑖𝑥, 𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝐻𝑒𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ, 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟'𝑠, 𝐵𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑗𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑒𝑡𝑐(𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑛)

𝐼 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓! ˃̶͈◡˂̶͈

𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠: 𝐴𝑚𝑦 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒, 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑑𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒, 800 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑎𝑦𝑒, 𝑋𝑇𝐶, 𝑆𝑎𝑚 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑠, 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑒, 𝑀𝑎𝑧𝑧𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑚𝑖𝑡ℎ'𝑠

Whizzer is introduced in March of the Falsettos, almost like a disruption. He’s Marvin’s younger lover, stylish, confident, and sharp-tongued. The audience first sees him in a kind of theatrical standoff with Marvin: their relationship seems sexy, combative, unstable. There's tension, there’s ego, and there’s clearly unresolved emotional baggage.

He’s not introduced with softness. We don’t see him through Marvin’s eyes with affection; instead, we’re told Marvin “left his wife and child for Whizzer,”

Marvin views Whizzer not as an equal partner, but as someone who’s supposed to fit into the domestic fantasy Marvin is trying to build—“a tight-knit family,” where he stays in control.

Whizzer is the embodiment of everything that was often unspoken in 1981, gay love, AIDS, mortality, tenderness between men.