Alan Menken

Composer


Stage credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol, King David, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Real Life Funnies, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and Weird Romance. His new stage musical adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Der Glockner von Notre Dame) is currently running in Berlin.

Stage awards include Best Score - Tony nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award; Best Musical - New York Drama Critics Award, Drama Desk Award, London Evening Standard Award, Olivier Award, Dora Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and L.A. Drama Critics Award.

Film credits include The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Newsies, Pocahontas, Life with Mikey, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules.

Film awards include four Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Score, four Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Song (Under the Sea, Beauty and the Beast, A Whole New World, Colors of the Wind).

Other notable achievements include 10 Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year (A Whole New World), a Billboard number one album (Pocahontas), and number one single (A Whole New World) and BMI's Richard Kirk Award.

Other credits include the score for Lincoln (ABC Mini-Series), the songs "My Christmas Tree" from Home Alone 2 and "The Measure of a Man" from Rocky V. Upcoming: the new musical Big Street based on the Damon Runyon short story Little Pinks, a revision of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and a reworking of Kicks.

 

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