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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. |
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. |
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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 ( |
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]]''). |
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Due to the cancellation of a Disney adaptation of "[[The Snow Queen]]", Menken will provide music for a [[DreamWorks]] movie titled ''[[Lidsville]]''. |
Due to the cancellation of a Disney adaptation of "[[The Snow Queen]]", Menken will provide music for a [[DreamWorks]] movie titled ''[[Lidsville]]''. |
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