Asher Denburg
Birth Place: Wilmington, DE
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BIO
Asher Denburg is a Wilmington, DE native whose work as musical multi-hyphenate has been heard worldwide. He has played some of America's most prestigious performing arts venues, collaborated with luminaries from Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera, and has been a man of the theatre for as long as he can remember. Asher currently serves as composer and music director for Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride, on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre.
Selected credits –
National tours: A Beautiful Noise, Spamilton, Cirque Musica Holiday Spectacular.
Cruise: Never Sleep Alone (Virgin Voyages, Scarlet Lady inaugural company); Cantaré (Holland America Line w/RWS, multiple companies).
Regional: Breath and Imagination (co-production of Front Porch Arts Collective & Lyric Stage Company of Boston, IRNE nomination for Best Music Director); Legally Blonde, The Addams Family (Wagon Wheel); Cinderella, All Shook Up, 9 to 5 (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre); Beehive (Theatre By The Sea).
As orchestrator/arranger: Take a Banana for the Ride; Never Sleep Alone; Shanghai Sonatas in concert (Wallis Annenberg Center, world premiere); Bachelors of Broadway; Fable (NYMF 2014, world premiere); various concerts with the Boston Pops and the Chicago Symphony; Eastbound (Joe’s Pub).
Asher holds ongoing residencies at Green Room 42 (At This Performance; Pretty, Witty, & Gay Cabaret), Chelsea Music Hall (Sweet! with Seth Herzog), and The Box (Never Sleep Alone).
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