Alan Menken

Alan Menken
Alan Menken
	Menken in 2013
Background information
Birth name	Alan Irwin Menken
Born	July 22, 1949 (age 75); Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Genres	Pop; musical theatre; film score;
Occupations	Composer; conductor; arranger; music director; music producer;
Years active	1972–present
Labels	Walt Disney;
Spouse	Janis Roswick (m. 1972)
Website	alanmenken-live.herokuapp.com

Alan Irwin Menken^[1] (born July 22, 1949) is an American composer and conductor, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Skydance Animation. Menken's contributions to The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) won him two Academy Awards for each film. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010), Disenchanted (2022), and Spellbound (2024), among others. His accolades include winning eight Academy Awards — becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars), a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of twenty-one people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony ("an EGOT").^[2]

He is also known for his work in musical theater for Broadway and elsewhere. Some of these works are based on his Disney films, but other stage hits include Little Shop of Horrors (1982), A Christmas Carol (1994), and Sister Act (2009).

Menken has collaborated with lyricists such as Muriel Robinson, David Zippel, Howard Ashman, Stephen Schwartz, David Crane, Seth Friedman, Marta Kauffman, Steve Brown, Tom Eyen, David Rogers, Dennis Green, David Spencer, Jack Feldman, Tim Rice, Lynn Ahrens, Glenn Slater, Chad Beguelin, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Ariel Shaffir, Kyle Hunter, Phil Johnston, Tom MacDougall, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

^ ^a ^b "Alan Menken Discography at Discogs". Discogs. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
^ Nordyke, Kimberly (July 26, 2020). "Alan Menken Achieves EGOT Status With Daytime Emmy Win". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on October 16, 2020. Retrieved July 27, 2020.

[name-1] "Alan Menken Discography at Discogs". Discogs. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.

[EGOT-2] Nordyke, Kimberly (July 26, 2020). "Alan Menken Achieves EGOT Status With Daytime Emmy Win". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on October 16, 2020. Retrieved July 27, 2020.

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