Get to know the creative team of TREVOR the musical each week through TREVOR Spotlight!
As the production’s music writer,
Julianne Wick Davis is the unsung hero of TREVOR the musical.

 

What was the first musical you ever participated in? How old were you?
I played Lucy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown in Junior High.

What was your first professional job in theatre?
Interestingly enough, when I was in college, I had my first paying job as a music director for a junior high production of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown! It was just me on the piano for a single performance and there was a horrible storm during the show that knocked out the power in the cafe-gym-atorium. I played standards while they tried to restore the power but we ended up doing the rest of the show with flashlights.

In a four-word phrase, describe your job.
Thinking outside the box.

Is there someone you looked up to growing up? Who is your Diana Ross? Why?
I didn’t have their pictures on my bedroom walls, and I wasn’t old enough to understand their politics, but I was obsessed with Crosby, Still, Nash & Young when I was 10-years old. Their harmonies were the most amazing thing I had ever heard, and I learned how to write vocal arrangements because of their Déjà Vu album.

What has participating in TREVOR reminded you about life in 1981?
There are so many things about writing TREVOR that have reminded me of life in 1981. I’ve especially been reminded of how the world has progressed in some ways, or how it’s really not changed that much at all. But, I think it was seeing the realization of the design elements that really took me back. Donyale Werle’s set and Mara Blumenfeld’s costumes both brought back vivid images of my past and made me nostalgic. I even owned a pair of those jeans with the rainbow stitching that our character Lindsay wears in the show!