Alan Menken

Alan Menken
Menken in 2013
Background information
Birth name	Alan Irwin Menken[1]
Born	(1949-07-22) July 22, 1949 (age 75) Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Genres	Pop musical theatre film score
Occupation(s)	Conductor arranger songwriter singer music director record producer
Years active	1972–present
Labels	Walt Disney
Website	Official website

Alan Irwin Menken^[1] (born July 22, 1949) is an American composer, conductor, songwriter, singer, music director and music producer. Menken is best known for his scores and songs for movies produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.

His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) have each won him two Academy Awards.

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) and Tangled (2010).

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alan Menken.

• Internet Broadway database Listing
• Internet Off-Broadway database Listing Archived 2013-04-15 at Archive.today
• MusicalTalk interview with Alan Menken
• Alan Menken on IMDb
• The Whole New World of Alan Menken Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Alan Menken: "Beauty and the Beast captures the magic of Disney animations and brings it to the stage" Alan Menken in Barcelona's Beauty and the Beast

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