Lyceum Theatre
Opened April 26, 2022
Closed January 15, 2023
A Strange Loop Musicians
Rona Siddiqui
Conductor/Keyboard 1
Mike pettry
Associate Conductor/Keyboard 2/Acoustic Guitar/Electric Guitar
Chris Reza
Flute/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Tenor Sax
Marques Walls
Drums
Beth Callen
Acoustic Guitar/Electric Guitar/Banjo
Ian Jesse
Acoustic Bass/Electric Bass
Music Team
Tomoko Akaboshi
Music Coordinator
Charlie Rosen
Orchestrator
Bryan Carter
Additional Orchestrations
Rona Siddiqui
Music Director/Additional Arrangements
Adam Wiggins
Music Prep/Original Piano Arrangements
A Strange Loop Bios
Mike Pettry
Associate Conductor / Keyboard 2 /
Acoustic Guitar / Electric Guitar
Mike Pettry is an NYC-based composer, lyricist, orchestrator, and musician. Broadway credits include A Strange Loop (associate conductor), The Lightning Thief, Gettin’ The Band Back Together, SpongeBob Squarepants, Bandstand, Finding Neverland, and Godspell. Other off-Broadway/NYC credits include Faust with Randy Newman, Trevor, The View Upstairs, FOUND, Rooms, and Clinton. His musical The Light Princess (New Victory Theater) as was named a NY Times Critic’s Pick. TV orchestration credits include Documentary Now!: Co-op (Emmy-nominated), John Mulaney and The Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix), multiple seasons of Vampirina (Disney Junior) and Ridley Jones (Netflix), plus several other Netflix series in the works. He has written music for At Home With Amy Sedaris (TruTV) and several video games, including Blood Nor Water, Epic Dumpster Bear 1 & 2, and JankBrain. Awards: Harold Adamson Lyric Award, Jonathan Larson Award. MFA in musical theatre writing from NYU/Tisch.
Chris Reza
Flute / Clarinet / Bass Clarinet / Tenor Sax
Having performed in more than 50 musicals, Broadway musician Chris Reza currently plays reeds in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A STRANGE LOOP and formerly played reeds in the Tony Award-winning musical FUN HOME. Chris can be heard on these and other cast albums. For more, check out ChrisReza.com.
Fighting for musicians’ rights, Chris served on the 2019 and 2016 Broadway contract negotiations, served as Vice-Chair of the Broadway Theatre Committee, and founded the Electronic Music Committee at Local 802 AFM, the Associated Musicians of Greater New York.
As a fresh emerging musical theatre composer, lyricist, and book writer, Chris Reza’s writing can be heard at Question1Musical.com.
Ian Jesse
Acoustic Bass / Electric Bass
Ian Jesse grew up in Dayton, OH listening to everything from Bach to The Ohio Players. After a long love with viola, he began playing upright and electric bass in high school. At 15, Jesse helped start a rock band , joined the jazz band and switched to bass on orchestra which led to a full scholarship at Miami University.
Ian also studied in Durban, South Africa with local and international acts including Abdullah Ibrahim, The South African Jazz Orchestra, and the KZN Philharmonic. He soon after moved to New York City to study with Ron Carter and John Patitucci where he remains active performing on Broadway, in jazz venues, and club dates.
Ian has performed in various venues throughout North and South America, Europe and Africa, collaborating with: Mulgrew Miller, Steve Wilson, Elliot Zigmund, Patience Higgins, Frank Lacy, Kahlil Kwame Bell, Bill Saxton, Dan Faehnle, Phil DeGreg, Darius Brubeck, Melvin Peters, Sundar Viswanathan, The Roots, Snoop Dogg, Sean Paul, George Benson, Grupo Niche, Sonora Carruseles, Mario Abney Quintet, and Puerto Rican Power.