‘Trevor: The Musical': How the Cast and Crew Reunited for One Day to Capture the Production for Disney+
thewrap.comHow do you prepare for your stage show to be filmed for the small screen?We closed our show at Stage 42 in the middle of December, and the producers were able to make this deal with RadicalMedia to do a film capture of the stage production in January.
We were able to shoot the entire thing in one day. We did a run through the afternoon and a run through in the evening, and the director of the film, Robin Abrams, brought eight cameras into the theater and shot it from eight angles.
Then, a lot of the job was in the editing room to try to take to take this stage piece, which is basically what people would have seen at Stage 42 during the run, but edited together in such a way that allows for a good deal of close ups — which I think puts the humanity of these characters really front and center.
Especially Holden, who is this extraordinary 13-year-old actor who’s playing the lead. And his performance really works in close up, and you get to care about him and go on his journey with him as he explores his world in 1981.
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