Alan live in concert at D23!

Disney announces a spectacular slate of programming happening at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event presented by Visa®, August 14, 15, and 16, in Anaheim, California, including "A Whole New World of Alan Menken." In this rare, one-man concert Disney Legend and eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken shares the songs and stories behind legendary Disney films and beloved stage and screen musicals that have shaped generations of audiences around the world.

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"Aladdin" on Broadway celebrates 4,000 performances, and honors the late Howard Ashman

Since opening March 20, 2014, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the Broadway production is currently the 15th longest-running show in Broadway history. The milestone also fell on what would have been the late director-book writer-lyricist Howard Ashman's 75th birthday. In the May 17 tribute, Calen B. Barnett as the Genie introduced a special post-show performance, which went on to feature Khadija Sanko, Ariana Groover, and Salome Smith from Off-Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors; Kyra Belle Johnson and Fergie Philippe from the upcoming North American tour of Beauty and the Beast; original Ariel voice artist and Broadway alum Jodi Benson to sing her signature song "Part of Your World"; and Menken, who sang "Proud of Your Boy" while accompanying himself on the piano.

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Another Emmy nomination!

Alan and Glenn Slater have been nominated for "Outstanding Original Song For A Preschool, Children’s Or Animated Program" for their song “Nothing Left To Lose” from "Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure". After winning their first Emmy last season, this is a consecutive nomination from the same television series.

Watch the song here

Beauty and the Beast stage revival/UK tour

Disney Theatricals is currently at work on a production of Beauty and the Beast which will tour the UK and Ireland in May 2021. The tour will launch with a five week run at Curve Leicester. The original creative team (including Alan) from the Broadway production will be joining the revival.

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Aladdin

Stage – 2014

Alan’s thoughts

Howard Ashman and I had a version of “Aladdin” that we scrapped about 4 years before the approved version was released in 1992.

There were three sidekicks; Babkak, Omar and Kassim, who provided a Hope-Crosby Road Picture tone to our story telling. Aladdin even had an actual living mother, to whom our big ballad (“Proud of Your Boy”) was sung. Now, with our Broadway adaptation, we’ve gotten to reinstate a lot of the material that we lost way back in the late ‘80s.

Songs17 titles

01Arabian Nights
02One Jump Ahead
03One Jump Ahead (Reprise)
04Proud of Your Boy
05These Palace Walls
06Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim
07A Million Miles Away
08Diamond in the Rough
09Friend Like Me
10Prince Ali
11A Whole New World
12High Adventure
13Somebody's Got Your Back
14Proud of Your Boy (Reprise)
15Prince Ali (Sultan Reprise)
16Prince Ali (Jafar Reprise)
17Finale Ultimo

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