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[[File:rsz 1alan menken pink 2010 a l 5203.png|frame|Disney's musical [[The Renaissance Age of Animation|Renaissance]] man.]]
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
▲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|Screen To Stage Adaptations]] 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|Screen To Stage Adaptations]] 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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