Danny's career as a musician includes composing, orchestrating, and conducting. Some early credits: Pacific Overtures, The Baker's Wife (both shows dance music arrangements), Big River (Drama Desk Award winner). He orchestrated the animated features Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas and Hercules. On Broadway he orchestrated the award-winning revival of The Pajama Game (as well as the award winning revival of How to Succeed... with Matthew Broderick). He won a second Drama Desk Award for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway. In 2023 he orchestrated The Secret Garden for its critically acclaimed revival at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, just after Lucy Simon's untimely passing . It was a labour of love. And he created new, slimmed-down orchestrations for Jeanine Tesori's Soft Power at the Signature Theater in Washington DC. Winter of 2024 was the Hamburg premiere of Disney's Hercules, which is being prepared for its opening here at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Always busy, Danny orchestrated all the new music for the 2024 Radio City Music Hall's Christmas extravaganza.
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