Broadway Band

Henry Aronson (Music Direction, Keyboard)

Broadway: MD, Grease; The Times They Are A-Changin’; In My Life; Little Shop of Horrors; Rent; The Rocky Horror Show; and Starmites. Associate conductor: Cry-Baby, Good Vibrations, Parade, Saturday Night Fever, Mail and Prince of Central Park. Conductor: Tarzan and The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: MD, King Lear (Public Theater), Once Around the Sun, Three Guys Naked . . . . Associate MD: Radio City Christmas Spectacular (NYC). AFM Local 802.

Joel Hoekstra (Guitar)

Joel Hoekstra plays guitar for Night Ranger and Trans Siberian Orchestra.  He recently had the pleasure of filling in for Mick Jones of Foreigner.  Joel can be seen in the movie Rock of Ages and through various projects has also played with:  Eric Martin (Mr Big), Tommy Shaw (Styx), Kevin Cronin (REO), Rik Emmett (Triumph), Alan Parsons, Jeff Scott Soto and many more.  www.joelhoekstra.com

David Gibbs (Guitar)

David Gibbs served as the music director and arranger for the original Los Angeles run of Rock of Ages. He has written music for film and TV including Josie and the Pussycats, That Thing You Do, Dumb and Dumber and many others. His screenplay Freeloaders, produced by Broken Lizard (Super Troopers), has just finished filming, and he is a member of Tom Morello’s touring band.

Winston Roye (Bass)

Winston Roye rocks! He’s also a drummer, singer and multi-instrumentalist. Winston performs and records with a variety of artists and writes, produces and records for film and TV. For more info about him, please visit www.winstonroye.com

Jon Weber (Drums)

Credits include Rock of Ages (Off-B’way): Hedwig and the Angry Inch (original NYC run) and Love, Janis (NYC). He also spends his time recording and touring with various artists including the Orion Experience, the Drew Blood and Jonny Lives!, to name a few.

Tommy Kessler

Tommy Kessler is excited to make his Broadway debut with Rock of Ages. He plays guitar for Rock ‘N Roll Hall Of Famers Blondie and performs with the Blue Man Group.  He has also performed with Tommy Shaw (Styx), Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) and Robin McAuley (Survivor). Check out www.tommykessler.com for way too much information about Tommy.