You wouldn't clock Alan Menken on the street. The composer – spiky grey hair, crinkled forehead, encouraging grin – is altogether unassuming. To see his oeuvre, though, is to realise this 75-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new video for PEOPLE filmed at his Upstate New York home, Menken reflects on more than five decades of songwriting, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken cried while tributing songwriting partner Howard Ashman on stage at D23's Beauty and the Beast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to princess songs, there’s no bigger name in the game than Alan Menken. That’s why Skydance Animation turned to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Menken and Slater are frequent collaborators, having preciously worked on films "Tangled" and "Home on the Range," TV series ...

Alan Menken is a true romantic. Just ask him how he met his wife of 52 years, Janis. “This dancer walks into the room, and I knew immediately who she was, because I dreamt her,” he says, beaming from ...

How did Alan Menken start working for Disney? Even if you’ve never heard his name, you’ve heard Menken’s music. Menken and Howard Ashman, his late writing partner, made musicals in New York together ...

Alan Menken, a true living legend and the composer behind (amongst other things) Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, has now reached the legendary EGOT status with a Daytime Emmy ...

In the latest episode of the Disney’s “For Scores” podcast, EGOT-certified composer Alan Menken looks back at his history with the studio, for whom he composed songs and scores for “The Little Mermaid ...

Disney's new live action 'Beauty and the Beast' reunited Alan Menken with characters he wrote music for 25 years ago, as Ariana Grande, John Legend, Celine Dion and Josh Groban recorded contemporary… ...