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.

Watch the complete performance here

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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Back to work

King David

Stage – 1997

Alan’s thoughts

Tim Rice and I had worked on 2 projects together before “King David”. He had come in to help complete the score to “Aladdin” with me, after Howard Ashman’s passing. He did the same, when we brought “Beauty and the Beast” to Broadway.

In each case, the new songs we wrote together were a tremendous success; songs like “A Whole New World”, “If I Can’t Love Her” and “A Change In Me”. So, when the Jerusalem 3000 committee approached me about writing a musical to commemorate King David, to be performed at The Sultan’s Pool, outside the walled city of Jerusalem, it was a perfect opportunity for the first Menken/Rice musical.

Songs19 titles

01Israel and Saul
02Samuel Anoints David
03The Enemy Within
04Palm 8
05Goliath of Gath
06Sheer Perfection
07Saul Has Slain His Thousands
08You Have It All
09Hunted Partridge on the Hill
10The Death of Saul
11How Are the Mighty Fallen
12This New Jerusalem
13Entry Into Jerusalem (Incorporating Psalm 24)
14Never Again
15Warm Spring Night
16When in Love
17The Caravan Moves On
18Absalom, My Absalom
19Long, Long Day / This New Jerusalem (Reprise)

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