Alan Irwin Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theater and composer and pianist scores of the film. Menken is famous for its value for a film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His score for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas i> (1995) each won her two Academy Awards. He also compiled a score for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992),
The Hunchback of Notre Dame > Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), < i> Sosis Party (2016), among others. He is also known for his work on musical theater for Broadway and elsewhere. Some of them are based on their Disney movies, but other stage hits include the Little Shop of Horrors (1982), A Christmas Carol (1994) and Sister Act (2009).
Menken has collaborated with lyricists such as Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Glenn Slater, Stephen Schwartz, and David Zippel. With eight Academy Awards winning (four each for Best Score and Best Song), Menken was the second most prolific winning Oscar in the music category after Alfred Newman, who has nine Oscars. She also won eleven Grammy Awards, Tony Awards and other awards.
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Alan Irwin Menken was born on July 22, 1949, at the French Hospital in New York City, to Judith and Norman Menken. His father is a piano-boogie-woogie dentist, and his mother is an actress, dancer and playwright. His family is Jewish. Menken developed an interest in music at an early age, taking piano lessons and violin. He began writing at an early age. At the age of nine, at the New York Federation of Music Clubs Junior Composers Contest, the original composition of "Bouree" is rated Superior and Excellent by the judges.
He attended New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York, and graduated in 1967. Menken remembers: "I will make my own Bach fugues and Beethoven sonatas because I am bored with the piano and I do not want to practice so I will go with the tangent line ". He then enrolls at New York University. He graduated with a degree in Musicology in 1971 from the Steinhardt University School. Menken recalled: "First, I am pre-med, I thought I would become a dentist like my dad Finally, I got a degree in music, but I do not care about musicology... it was not until I joined BMI Workshop... under Lehman Engel, and into a room with another composer that I know is the place. "Menken noted that" Before college, I was writing a song to dream of becoming Bob Dylan next. "Many guitar songs - I wrote pianos before that. After college, he attended the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.
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Careers
Initial career
After graduation, Menken's plan is to become a rock star or a recording artist. His interest in musical writing increased when he joined the Broadcast Music Music Shop, Inc. (BMI) and guided by Lehman Engel. From 1974 to 1978, he exhibited various BMI workshops, such as Midnight ,
Menken donates material for revues such as Back New York at City , Big Apple Country , The Present Tense (1977), Real Life Funnies (Off-Broadway, 1981), Diamonds (Off-Broadway, 1984), and 1985). His appearance Patch, Patch, Patch ran at the West Bank Cafe in New York City in 1979 and featured Chip Zien. The New York Times Reviewer, Mel Gussow, writes: "The song's title... refers to life's part, according to Alan Menken... after the age of 30, it's a decline."
Menken wrote several unproduced performances, including Atina, Evil Queen of the Galaxy (1980), with lyrics by Steve Brown. He also wrote The Thorn with lyrics by Brown, commissioned by Divine in 1980. This is a parody of The Rose movie, but they can not raise money to have it manufactured. He collaborated with Howard Ashman in an incomplete musical called Babe (1981), with Tom Eyen at Kicks: The Showgirl Musical (1984), and with David Rogers in The Dream in Royal Street (c 1981), which is an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream . Menken donated music for the movie The Line (1980), directed by Robert J. Siegel.
Breakthrough years
Menken finally achieved success as a composer when drama writer Howard Ashman chose him and Engel to write music for his musical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater . The musical was opened in 1979 at the WPA Theater for excellent reviews and a modest box office. It was transferred after a few months to the Entermedia Off-Broadway Theater, where he ran for an additional six weeks.
Menken and Ashman wrote their next music, Little Shop of Horrors, for a cast consisting of 9 players, including a dalang. This musical is based on the 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors. It opened at WPA Theater in 1982 for warm reviews. It moved to the Orpheum Theater in East Village, Manhattan, where it lasted for five years. Music set the box-office record for the best-selling event outside Broadway of all time. This tour around the world, won a theater award and was adapted as a 1986 musical star starring Rick Moranis who won Menken and Ashman their first Oscar nomination for the song "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space". For his work in musical theater, he was awarded the BMI Career Achievement Award in 1983.
In 1987, Menken's adaptation and lyricist David Spencer, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, based on a 1959 novel of the same name, was produced in Philadelphia. After a substantial rewrite, it was produced in 2015 in Montreal. In 1992, the WPA Theater produced Menken's Weird Romance , also with lyrics by Spencer. Musical Menken based on Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol, with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and a book by Mike Ockrent, debuted at Paramount Theater Madison Square Garden in 1994. The show proved successful and was an annual New York show holiday events. Disney Renaissance Disney Renaissance and the subsequent movies
On the strength of the success of Little Shop of Horrors, Menken and Ashman were hired by Walt Disney Studios to write music for The Little Mermaid (1989). The challenge is to create an animated music film from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale that can sit with Disney's Snow White and Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella movies. The Little Mermaid opened for critical and commercial success and marked a new Disney era called Disney Renaissance. The film gave them the first Oscars: Best Song for the song "Under the Sea". Menken also won the 1989 Oscar for Best Score.
Menken and Ashman Beauty and the Beast collected their three 1991 Oscar nominations for Best Song, winning for the title song. Menken won another Oscar for Best Score. Both worked on Aladdin at the time of Ashman's death in 1991. Next, Menken went to collaborate with Tim Rice to complete the songs for the film. The film won an Oscar in 1992 for Best Song: "A Whole New World". Menken also won an Oscar for Best Score. The live musical film action Menken Newsies , with lyrics by Jack Feldman, was released in 1992. Three other animated films followed. Menken collaborated with Stephen Schwartz for Pocahontas , in which both won two Oscars: Best Song and Best Musical or Comedy Rank. In 1996, the same music team created the song, and Menken, the score, for The Hunchback of Notre Dame . In 1997, Menken reunited with his early collaborator, David Zippel, for his final musical in the series, Hercules .
Menken also wrote music for Michael J. Fox's vehicles Life with Mikey (1993), holiday movies Noel (2004) and Mirror Mirror (2012). Her other movie scores for Disney include Home on the Range (2004), Tim Allen's remake of The Shaggy Dog (2006), Enchanted ( 2007) and Tangled (2010). In March 2017, Disney released the live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast , with songs from the 1991 film and new material by Menken and Rice. In 2017, Menken co-wrote new songs with Pasek and Paul for the remake of live-action films from Aladdin and also worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda on new music for live-action film adaptations. from The Little Mermaid . Menken will also once again work with Stephen Schwartz to write a new song for Disenchanted , a sequel of Enchanted .
With eight Academy Awards (four for best score and best song respectively), only composer Alfred Newman (nine wins) and Walt Disney (22 wins) have received more Oscars than Menken. She is tied for third place with the ultimate costume designer Edith Head. He currently holds the record of most victories for the living. He was named the Disney Legend in 2001.
Return to musical theater
Menken debuted on Broadway with a musical adaptation of Beauty and the Beast that opened in 1994 and ran for 13 years before closing in 2007. In 1997, he collaborated with lyricist Tim Rice on musicals, King David , based on biblical characters, performed in a concert version on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theater. Little Shop of Horrors was played on Broadway from 2003 to 2004.
He subsequently created the stage version of The Little Mermaid, which was played on Broadway from 2008 to 2009 and for that he received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Score. Menken's adaptation stage of the Sister Act aired in London in 2009, and opened on Broadway in 2011. He was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Score. Menken received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. In December 2010, he was a guest on the quiz show NPR Wait Wait... Do not Tell Me! .
In 2012, Menken won the Tony Award for Best Score for his music adaptation of Newsies, which lasted until 2014. He also wrote music for Leap of Faith, which has a brief on Broadway on 2012. The adaptation stage of Aladdin opened on Broadway in 2014, earning him another Tony nomination for Best Score. In 2013, he became a guest at the annual Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, and was awarded the Junior Theater Festival Award. He gave concerts there, including music cut from various productions, while talking about his creative process.
Menken's adaptation stage of The Hunchback of Notre Dame was played in La Jolla Playhouse, California, in 2014. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was revived in Montreal in 2015, and < i> A Bronx Tale: The Musical , played in Paper Mill Playhouse in 2016.
Personal life
Menken met ballet dancer Janis Roswick while working with Downtown Ballet Company. They have been married since November 1972 and live in North Salem, New York. The couple had two daughters, Anna Menken and Nora Menken.
Movieography
Scores and/or songs
Only songs
- Little Shop of Horrors (full soundtrack, score by Miles Goodman) 1986 (Oscar nomination)
- Who is Framing Roger Rabbit (the song "This Only Happens in the Movies", score by Alan Silvestri) 1988 (prequel that not produced)
- Polly (the song "By Your Side", score by Joel McNeely) 1989
- Rocky V (the song "The Measure of a Man", score by Bill Conti) 1990
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (song "My Christmas Tree", score by John Williams) 1992 Captain America: The First Avenger (the song "Star Spangled Man", score by Alan Silvestri) 2011
- Jock the Hero Dog (two versions of the song "Howling at the Moon", score by Klaus Badelt and Ian Honeyman) 2012
- Aria for a cow (short film) ("Aria for a cow") 2016
- Holmes and Watson (2 songs) 2017
Television
- Sesame Street [songs "Grouchelot", "What is Friend?", "It Will Get Dirty Again," "Friends Snuffle," "Martian Family (Yip Yip Song) "and" Todos un Pueblo "] 1989-1990
- Cartoon All-Stars to Rescue (the watching composer, the song "Wonderful Ways to Say No") 1990
- Lincoln 1992
- A Christmas Carol 2004
- Neighbors - S01E20 "Singing Like Larry Birds" [songs "More or Fewer Types of Things That May Might or May Not Look You on Broadway", "Giselle", "More or more Less The Kind of Thing You May or May Not See in Broadway "(Reprise)] 2013 ( Emmy nominee)
- Galavant (2nd season complete soundtrack, score by Christopher Lennertz) 2015-2016
- Tangled: The Series 2017
Musical
More
- Aladdin, Jr. a 1-act musical, a 7-scene adapted from the 1992 Aladdin animated film
- Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage - Theater performances at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Walt Disney World
- Disney Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular - Theater performances at Disney's California Adventure Park
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Theatrical show at MGM Studios Disney, Walt Disney World
- The Little Mermaid: Adventure of Undersea Ariel - Attractions in Disney's California Adventure Park
- Sindbad's Storybook Voyage showing "Compass from your Heart" - Attractions in Tokyo DisneySea, Tokyo Disney Resort
- Dramatic Guild of America The YouTube Channels music video displays "Someone Write the song"
- Tangled: the Musical - Theater Show on Disney Cruise Line (starting November 2015)
- the official theme song of Dubai Parks and Resorts "All the Wonders of the Universe" (opens October 2016)
- Boston's 2017 Independence Day Celebration featuring "The Sum of us" for solo singers, choirs, and orchestra
Upcoming projects
- Menken composed new music based on the 1994 movie Corrina, Corrina with lyrics by Brian Yorkey and a book by Jessie Nelson (writer for movie scenarios).
- The musical in the composition process is ma'am. Doubtfire , with Harvey Fierstein's book
- Producer John Hart hopes to revive Menken and Eyen Kicks music with a new book by playwright and cabaret artist Salty Brine.
- Menken announces that the stage version of Hercules is working on, but not yet in production.
Awards
Alan Menken has received eight Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, eleven Grammy Awards, one Tony Award, one Drama Desk Award and two Outer Critics Awards. She was awarded as Disney Legends in 2002 and was a recipient of Career Career Richard Kirk in 1998, the Freddie G. Award for Musical award in 2013, and The Oscar Hammerstein Award in 2013, among others. The American Film Institute includes the title song of the movie Beauty and the Beast , in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs. Five other songs from his Disney movie have been nominated:
- "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid (1989)
- "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- "A Whole New World" from Aladdin (1992)
- "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin (1992)
In 2006, AFI enrolled 25 of its biggest musical films. Beauty and the Beast (1991) is ranked 22nd and is the only animated music film on the list. Four of the other musical films were also nominated:
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
- The Little Mermaid (1989)
- Aladdin (1992)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
References
Further reading
- Disney Biography Menken
- Menken, Alan. on Wayback Machine (archive 19 October 2007) Britannica Book of the Year, 1997. 2007. EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica Online. Retrieved on September 6, 2007.
- Interview with Alan Menken, theartsdesk.com. Posted May 16, 2010.
External links
- Alan Menken on the Internet Broadway Database
- Off-Broadway Internet Code List
- MusicalTalk interview with Alan Menken
- Alan Menken in IMDb
- A New World from Alan Menken
- Alan Menken: "Beauty and the Beast capture the magic of Disney animation and bring it to the stage" Alan Menken at Barcelona Beauty and the Beast
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