Jonathon Lynch's "The Baroque Cycle"

“The Baroque Cycle” (Best Singer winner & Best Score nominee, New York Winterfest 2022) is an innovative one-woman musical theatre piece that combines the beauty of classical music with the wild abandon of musical comedy. It’s the story of a young Classically trained soprano who moves to New York to become a Broadway star. Unfortunately, things don’t go so well for her. Everything from terrible auditions to harrowing subway rides to even tidying her apartment become a nightmare. How does she cope? By retreating to a Baroque music recital in her mind where she can freely sing about the dumpster fire of her life! Come, join her for a breakdown Bach would be proud of.

Jonathon Lynch, currently living in New York City, is thrilled to be back home in Naperville and North Central College! He is the creator, music supervisor, and host of the award-winning podcast, “Bite-Sized Broadway: a mini-musical podcast,” currently in its second season. Recently, he was the music director for NPR’s “Micro-Face: The Musical!” Other credits include assistant music director and copyist for “Finding Neverland” (pre-Broadway workshop), and music director for “The Giant Hoax”, “The City Club”, and “Powerline Road” (off-Broadway). He is the songwriter of “The Carousel of Inevitability and Certain Foreboding” (with Freeman & Varod), which was the inaugural winner of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Musical Theatre Writing Fellowship; the award-winning “The Baroque Cycle” (Winterfest ’22); and “Peter & the Pied Piper” (Lincoln Center ’22 with Galvan). He also wrote the music for the video game “Elimination”, the album “Canta, Songs for Learning Spanish”, and the award-winning web series, “NewB”.

Before moving to New York, Lynch made his mark on the Chicago theatre scene as assistant music director of “Dennis Deyoung’s Hunchback of Notre Dame” (Bailiwick Rep) and “Altarboyz” (Noble Fool Theatricals), as well as music directing many musicals and theatre camps at North Central College. His musical “Lunacy” (music by Lynch, book and lyrics by Boresi) played at North Central College before becoming the inaugural musical in the Overtures New Works Series at Gallery Players in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Lynch is currently a faculty music director at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy & the 92nd St. Y, a writer in the Theatre Now New York’s Musical Theatre Writers Lab, a composer in the Advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Songwriting Workshop, and an alum of Northwestern University.