Palace Theatre
Opened April 26, 2026
The Lost Boys Musicians
Julie McBride
Conductor/Keyboard
Jacklyn Riha
Keyboard/Associate Conductor
Marques Walls
Drums
Rodney Howard
Percussion
Aurelién Budynek
Guitar 1
Beth Callen
Guitar 2
Vivi Rama
Bass
Kristina Gitterman
Concertmaster
Annaliesa Place
Violin
Maxim Moston
Violin
Tallie Brunfelt
Violin
Lisa Matricardi
Violin/Viola
AnDrew Griffin
Violin/Viola
Sarah Hewitt-Roth
Cello
Alon Bisk
Cello
Actor-Musicians
Dean Maupin
Drums
Brian Flores
Guitar
Sean Grandillo
Bass
Music Team
Ethan Popp
Musical Supervisor
Julia McBride
Musical Director
Ethan Popp, Kyler England, Adrianne “AG” Gonzalez and Gabriel Mann
Orchestrators/Music Arrangements
J&J Music Preparation, Josephine Bearden, Jacob Fjeldheim, and Charlie Savage
Music Preparation
Kristy Norter
Musical Coordinator
Sara Jacovino
Associate Musical Coordinator
Musician Bios
Aurélien Budynek
Guitar 1
Aurélien Budynek was born and raised in Bordeaux, France, and moved to NYC in 2006 after graduating from Berklee College of Music.
Broadway chairs: The Lost Boys, Back to the Future, Tina, Gettin’ the Band Back Together
Subbing: Hamilton, Book of Mormon, MJ, Rock of Ages, Dear Evan Hansen, among others.
Touring: Cindy Blackman-Santana, Marky Ramone, The Dan Band (MD), One Vision of Queen featuring Marc Martel, DareDevil Squadron, Broadway’s Rock of Ages Band, Rochester Fringe Festival (MD)
Beth Callen
Guitar 2
Beth Callen is a New York City–based guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Beth has toured and collaborated with Matthew Morrison, Graham Nash (CSNY), Alexander Stewart, Jill Hennessy, Anthony Rapp, Rona Siddiqui, and more. She has performed on Broadway in The Lost Boys, Suffs, A Strange Loop, and Head Over Heels, and Off-Broadway in All The World's A Stage, Has Anyone Seen My Mind, and A Strange Loop. She has appeared On The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and on NPR's Tiny Desk (home).
Beth was a founding member of The Callen Sisters, releasing multiple records and earning a deal with Cordless Recordings (Warner). Since then, she has continued to write, record, and perform original music while collaborating with a wide range of artists across genres.
She holds a Bachelor of Music from Purchase College, where she studied songwriting and new media. Beth teaches private lessons and workshops focused on songwriting, guitar, and performance, and is pursuing a Master's degree in Information Experience Design (MS IxD) at Pratt Institute with a focus on music software and educational technology.
Kristina Gitterman
Concertmaster
Originally from the Midwest, violinist Kristina Gitterman is thrilled to be a part of the Broadway community. She has played in over 30 musicals and is currently the Concertmaster at The Lost Boys.
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, The New York Pops, American Ballet Theater, Encores! at City Center and the Oratorio Society are some of the many ensembles and orchestras with which she has had the pleasure of performing.
Music has taken Kristina around the globe, traveling throughout North America, Europe, and Asia with various ensembles. Her vast studio work includes dozens of cast recordings as well as TV and film soundtracks.
Kristina holds Music Degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, Ithaca College, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. She also has a degree in Comparative Religion.
Kristina enjoys playing chamber music on a regular basis for memory care patients, dreams of growing dahlias, and loves offering help to strangers.
Maxim Moston
Violin
Maxim is a multi-faceted musician working in New York City. His primary Instrument is the violin, but he can also be heard playing viola, mandolin, guitar and keyboard instruments.
Coming from a strong conservatory background, Maxim frequently performs in New York’s leading concert halls playing in symphony, opera and oratorio orchestras as well as in numerous chamber ensembles.
Maxim is a veteran of over fifty Broadway productions and is a fixture of New York’s vibrant studio scene.
Maxim has been deeply involved in the non-classical scene, playing his violin through complex effects chains and incorporating various styles of improvisation. As violinist and music director of Anohni and the Johnsons. Maxim is proud of having performed to sold out houses at many of the world’s cultural capitals He has also been a member of seminal electro-acoustic ensembles Slow Six, Redhooker and Edison Woods.
An active arranger and orchestrator, Maxim's charts have graced the songs of Anohni, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Josh Groban, Keren Ann and Linda Thompson, among others. His orchestral re-imaginings of ambient luminary William Basinski’s seminal Disintegration Loops have been rapturously received on three continents.
More info at maximmoston.com
Tallie Brunfelt
Violin 2
Violinist Tallie Brunfelt enjoys a busy freelance career in New York City. She has played in more than 20 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and has spent seven seasons at the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. She is currently playing violin on the hit show The Lost Boys.
Tallie is an in-demand studio musician with credits that include Barbie and Mean Girls, as well as more than 30 other motion picture and television soundtracks. Other recording and live TV credits include performances with Bruce Springsteen and Michael Bublé.
Tallie also serves as Concertmaster of the Akron Symphony Orchestra and as Assistant Concertmaster of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. In her time off, she enjoys hiking and traveling with her husband.
Andrew Griffin
Violin / Viola
Andrew Griffin is an award-winning violist, composer, and orchestrator. He has performed in such diverse settings as Saturday Night Live, Radio City Music Hall, and in the viola section of the New York Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Since 2019, Andrew has held chairs for multiple Broadway shows. He can be found on the soundtracks of several films including the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All At Once, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Mean Girls (2023). He was also a semifinalist at the 2012 Washington International Competition for Strings.
As an active copyist and editor, his credits include: Kidding (Showtime, feat. Jim Carrey); For Colored Girls (Broadway, Booth Theater); Ride the Cyclone (Off-Broadway); Planet Earth 2 (BBC); Lempicka (Williamstown Theater); Witness Uganda/Invisible Thread (Off-Broadway) and many more.
His original compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations have also been commissioned by notable ensembles such as the Seattle Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series, Simply Three, Sphinx Virtuosi, The Queens College Orchestra, and Traverse City Dance Company. He is also the composer for the new horror play, The Hollow, which debuted in Dallas, TX in 2022.
Andrew received his bachelor’s degree with honors as a double major from Carnegie Mellon University under Toby Appel (viola BFA) and Nancy Galbraith (composition BFA), and a master’s degree (viola MFA) from Rice University under Ivo-jan van der Werff.