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'''''Alan Menken''''' is a composer and songwriter for theater and film. Beginning with ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', for which he wrote both score and songs with lyricist [[Howard Ashman]] (the same team who wrote ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''), he has been the go-to guy for [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney musicals]], including ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', ''[[Pocahontas]]'', ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', and ''[[Tangled]]''. This has earned him ''eighteen'' [[Academy Award]] nominations, eight of which he won—more Oscars than any other living individual.

After ''Mermaid'''s success, Menken wrote ''Beauty And The Beast'' and began ''Aladdin'' with Ashman before the latter's death in 1991. Since then, Menken has written with a multitude of lyricists, including [[Tim Rice]] (''Aladdin'', the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]]s of ''Beauty and the Beast'' and ''Aladdin''), [[Jack Feldman]] (''[[Newsies]]'' and its [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]]), [[Stephen Schwartz]] (''Pocahontas'', ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', ''[[Enchanted]]'', the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]] of ''Hunchback''), [[David Zippel]] (''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'', ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]''), and [[Glenn Slater]] (''[[Home on the Range]]'', ''Tangled'', the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]]s of ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''[[Sister Act]]'').

If you want some samples of Alan Menken music, go to [[Awesome Music (Disney film)]].

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