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 ...

Composer and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda alerted us via Twitter this morning that it is the birthday of Alan Menken, composer of most of your favorite Disney songs and bazillion-time Oscar nominee.

Alan Menken has built a career helping people express what they want. And what they want, or at least what they’ve been asking for lately, is Alan Menken. Now, at 69, Menken is navigating a twist in ...

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 ...

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 reflects on his five-decade career in a new video for PEOPLE, revisiting iconic Disney songs and sharing behind-the-scenes stories He credits Howard Ashman for shaping Disney’s "I want" ...

Alan Menken shared one of the biggest moments in his career with longtime musical collaborator Howard Ashman in a hospital room. He carried a keyboard into Ashman’s room at St. Vincent’s Hospital in ...

If you were to put together a soundtrack to your childhood, it’s a safe bet that at least some of the songs on it would be by Alan Menken. An Oscar-, Tony-, and Grammy award winner, composer Alan ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Aladdin" is wowing audiences at the Oriental Theatre this summer and got great reviews. ABC 7 Chicago spoke to legendary Disney composer Alan Menken, the man behind the music of the ...

Disney's adaptation of the 1989 animated version includes three new songs from Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter The Little Mermaid composer Alan Menken is ...