The Pitcher's Handsome

My personal take on how Marvin and Whizzer, from the musical Falsettos, met. With sporadic references to the show itself to fit the situations, we start out in 1977, two years before Act 1.

Marvin takes his 8 year old son, Jason, to a Minor League Baseball game in Brooklyn. After getting a signed ball from the pitcher, Marvin finds himself have a hard time not staring at the player for the rest of the game. Whizzer Brown, number 41 and newest star talent pitcher of the Brooklyn Blue Devils, was the talk of the league. He wasn't only an impressive player, but he was charming, almost too charming for some.

Whizzer was on his own path to authenticity in life, living for himself as proudly as he could at the time. Any whiff of a rumor of his 'homosexual habits' could bar him from ever advancing as a pro athlete, and possibly the loss of his career altogether.

When he meets a semi-charming but funny and rich father, their passionate affair spirals their lives out of control.

Marvin is on the brink of divorce with his wife, Trina, while losing his mind, and falling in love with a man. Poor Jason becoming a partial after thought in it all.

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I have A LOT for this prequel novel type fan made story, but I have also written out the musical as a novel with obvious bonus scenes and such. I've debated writing the ending... after curtain. What happens with the family, with Marvin. Where life goes for him...

LET ME KNOW x Hope you love these characters as much as I have fallen for them all. This is just a fun project so I hope it's a fun read !!