Trevor: The Musical
A new off-Broadway show premiered this week in New York City with an important message for the LGBTQ+ youth. We are talking about Trevor, the musical adaptation of the homonym film that won the Academy Award for Best Action Short in 1995.
Like the film directed by Peggy Rajski and written by Celeste Lecesne, Trevor: A New Musical follows the story of a 13-year old boy, crazy about Diana Ross and Broadway musicals, who is discovering his queer identity in 1981 while being rejected by friends. After an embarrassing incident at school involving the first boy he ever had feelings for, Trevor attempts suicide.
Trevor, directed by Marc Bruni, who was responsible for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, is on Stage 42 until February 2022. The playbook includes Diana Ross' greatest hits and original songs with Dan Collins's lyrics and Julianne Wick Davis's music.
The Trevor Project
In 1998, before the film aired on HBO, the filmmakers were concerned about young viewers who could be facing the same experience as Trevor. So James Lecesne, Peggy Rajski, and Randy Stone decided to search for a support line to be broadcast during the airing. To their surprise, there was no such organization focused on working with LGBTQ+ youth. That's when they created The Trevor Project, which today is the world's largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
Reviews
After its premiere, Trevor: The Musical received mixed reviews. While Jesse Green calls the show "a seemingly impossible platter that's almost as righteous in the world as it is wrong in the theater" in The New York Times, Greg Evans describes it as "a blend of musical theater optimism" on Deadline.
INFO
Theatre:
Stage 42 - 422 W. 42nd St.
Midtown West
Runtime
2 hours, 15 minutes
Credits
Book and lyrics by Dan Collins; Music by Julianne Wick Davis; Choreography by Josh Prince; Directed by Marc Bruni
Cast
Holden William Hagelberger, Mark Aguirre, Aaron Alcaraz, Ava Briglia, Sammy Dell, Ellie Kim, Colin Konstanty, Diego Lucano, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Isabel A. Medina, Echo Deva Picone, Brandi Porter, Dan Rosales, Aryan Simhadri, Yasmeen Sulieman, Sally Wilfert, Jarrod Zimmerman
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