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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The composer for Disney’s live action "Little Mermaid" remake recently confirmed that some of the classic songs written for the 1989 animated classic have had lyrical changes to promote consent.

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, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Menken and Schwartz are both attached to resume their musical duties on the Hunchback of Notre ...

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 ...

Menken scored The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas and many other Disney classics. He recently wrote three new songs for the live action... Composer Alan Menken On His Disney Tunes: 'I Prefer Them ...

Skydance Animation is coming out swinging with their second feature film, Spellbound, which boasts an astonishing cast & crew of animation veterans from Disney, Dreamworks, and beyond. One of those ...

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, ...