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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK -- Composer Alan Menken joins an elite club, becoming the 16th ever EGOT winner. The final piece of the puzzle came Sunday when Menken won the Daytime Emmy for "Best Original Song." The award ...
“Spellbound,” now on Netflix, is an animated fairytale about a princess from a far away land (voiced by Rachel Zegler) whose parents (Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman) are mysterious turned into ...
Alan Menken left an indelible mark as a composer for many of the most popular Disney movies of the 1990s. Menken revolutionized Disney songwriting, blending Broadway-style compositions with heartfelt ...
It's difficult to overstate Alan Menken's legacy. If you're a twenty-something he wrote the soundtrack to your childhood. If you've ever seen The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Menken made a grand entrance, sitting down at the grand piano to the roaring of ...
Alan Irwin Menken (born July 12, 1949) is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.