Get to know the creative team of TREVOR the musical each week through TREVOR Spotlight. Writers welcomes Greg Pliska to the team as the Orchestrator of TREVOR the musical.

 

What was the first musical you ever participated in? How old were you?
I was in the chorus of Two Gentlemen of Verona my freshman year in high school (although we never got to perform because the director refused the administration’s request to cut some of the more risqué material)!

What was your first professional job in theatre?
Music Director for a production of March of the Falsettos at Williams College.

In a four-word phrase, describe your job.
Making magic with music!

Is there someone you looked up to growing up? Who is your Diana Ross? Why?
Over and over, I would listen to Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, the Beatles’ red and blue compilation albums and Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, because they all opened a door to where music (and words) combined to tell stories and conjure entire worlds.

What has participating in TREVOR reminded you about life in 1981?
The thrill of vinyl LPs, from the details hidden in liner notes, to the delicate way you had to slide the record out of the sleeve to the mechanism, and sound of my parents’ hi-fi.