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

Sister Act

Stage – 2009

Alan’s thoughts

“Sister Act” is actually my first musical written directly for Broadway. All of my others were adaptations of my film musicals or transfers from Off-Broadway and it thrills me to see it opening all over the world; in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Milan etc.

All of the machinations one hears about leading up to our Broadway opening, are true in this case. Half the score got scrapped and rewritten. Directors came and went. Our leads changed. Producers changed. Book writers changed and in the end, I love this show so much. I’d go through it all again, gladly.

Songs19 titles

01Take Me to Heaven
02Fabulous Baby!
03Here Within These Walls
04It's good To Be a Nun
05When I Find My Baby
06I Could Be That Guy
07Raise Your Voice
08Take Me to Heaven (Reprise)
09Sunday Morning Fever
10Lady in the Long Black Dress
11Haven't Got a Prayer
12Bless Our Show
13The Life I Never Led
14Fabulous, Baby! (Reprise)
15Sister Act
16When I Find My Baby (Reprise)
17The Life I Never Led (Reprise)
18Sister Act (Reprise)
19Spread the Love Around

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"Fabulous, Baby!" in workshop for the Broadway run