Alan Menken

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Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American Broadway and Academy Award winning film score composer.

Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. He is best known for his work on several Disney animated features, including The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Pocahontas, Aladdin, and Home on the Range. His first successful work was the 1982 off-Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors. Menken has received eight Academy Awards.

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  • Enchanted, 2007 film, directed by Kevin Lima, lyricist Stephen Schwartz.
  • "Sister Act" (based on the hit Touchstone Pictures' film) premiering this October at the Pasadena Playhouse & the Alliance Theatre.
  • "The Snow Queen" set to debut at Tokyo DisneySea with Amon Miyamoto directing and John Weidman as the bookwriter and Glen Slater the lyricist.
  • Sinbad's Storybook Voyage, overlay of Sinbad's Seven Voyages at Tokyo Disney Sea featuring an original song, "Compass of your Heart"
  • "The Little Mermaid" Broadway stage version.

  • 1986
  • 1989
    • Won, Original Score - The Little Mermaid
    • Won, Original Song (with Ashman) - "Under the Sea", from The Little Mermaid
    • Nominated, Original Song (with Ashman) - "Kiss the Girl", from The Little Mermaid
  • 1991
    • Won, Original Score - Beauty and the Beast
    • Won, Original Song (with Ashman) - "Beauty and the Beast", from Beauty and the Beast
    • Nominated, Original Song (with Ashman) - "Belle", from Beauty and the Beast
    • Nominated, Original Song (with Ashman) - "Be Our Guest", from Beauty and the Beast
  • 1992
    • Won, Original Score - Aladdin
    • Won, Original Song (with Tim Rice) - "A Whole New World", from Aladdin
    • Nominated, Original Song (with Ashman) - "Friend Like Me", from Aladdin
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1997

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