You wouldn’t clock Alan Menken on the street. The composer – spiky grey hair, crinkled forehead, encouraging grin – is altogether unassuming. To see his oeuvre, though, is to realise this 75-year-old ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new video for PEOPLE filmed at his Upstate New York home, Menken reflects on more than five decades of songwriting, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to princess songs, there’s no bigger name in the game than Alan Menken. That’s why Skydance Animation turned to the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid arriving in theaters on May 26, Alan Menken, who composed the music for both the ...
How did Alan Menken start working for Disney? Even if you’ve never heard his name, you’ve heard Menken’s music. Menken and Howard Ashman, his late writing partner, made musicals in New York together ...
Alan Menken is a true romantic. Just ask him how he met his wife of 52 years, Janis. “This dancer walks into the room, and I knew immediately who she was, because I dreamt her,” he says, beaming from ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a composer who knows his way around a good reprise, Alan Menken is appropriately inclined to revisit his work. Take “Aladdin” ...
NEW YORK -- Anyone who has spent an afternoon with songs from "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," or "Aladdin" stuck in your head has one man to thank for that: Alan Menken. The composer who ...
Menken, who has written the scores for such Disney films as 'The Little Mermaid' and 'Beauty and the Beast,' talks to THR ahead of getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday. By Randee ...
Alan Menken is opening up his Disney animated songbook. The legendary composer — who is one of the rare few to have achieved the illustrious EGOT, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award — has ...