A Broadway musician’s double life as a murder mystery maker

Get full show notes at www.post.games Subscribe for bonus segments and episodes, plus everything is ad-free! www.patreon.com/postgames Heads up! You can now watch Post Games shorts on Instagram , YouTube , and TikTok . Today's guest is musical composer, orchestrator, lyricist, conductor, and musician Mike Pettry, who climbed the rungs of the theater world and now performs in the orchestras of award-winning Broadway shows. His performances have accompanied artists like Ben Platt and Idina Menzel. But as his Broadway career blossomed, Pettry began to fantasize about something else entirely: making a musical… video game. A murder mystery musical video game, to be precise. Murder at the Birch Tree Theater is a deduction game, in the style of Return of the Obra Dinn and The Case of the Golden Idol . Set across many years at a small community theater, it tells a story of intrigue, small-time fame, and, as the title promises, murder. I talk with Pettry about juggling his two dreams on the world's biggest stage. Or under it. He plays in the orchestra after all. Act 1: A gamer in the Broadway pit Act 2: Fine-tuning a musical murder mystery game Patreon-bonus: Three original songs based on r…