Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new video for PEOPLE filmed at his Upstate New York home, Menken reflects on more than five decades of songwriting, ...

Alan Menken is a true romantic. Just ask him how he met his wife of 52 years, Janis. “This dancer walks into the room, and I knew immediately who she was, because I dreamt her,” he says, beaming from ...

Alan Menken, the celebrated film composer of the original The Little Mermaid, remembers the first time he heard about Lin-Manuel Miranda — when Broadway's future Hamilton creator was a fourth grader ...

Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda, music legends in their own right and now collaborators on the new live-action version of The Little Mermaid, have 30 years in age separating them. Yet Menken has ...

Imagine a landscape where “Part of Your World” doesn’t exist. Ariel’s popular “I want” ballad and other songs from Disney’s 1989 classic “The Little Mermaid” kicked off a golden age of animation ...

Alan Menken has revealed more information on the new songs that he and Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote for the upcoming live action remake of The Little Mermaid. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Menken ...

Alan Menken is the Disney Legend who’s won 8 Oscars, 7 Golden Globes, 11 Grammys, and 1 Tony. He is renowned as a composer of Disney films such as “Beauty and the Beast”, “Aladdin”, “The Hunchback of ...

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 ...

Jennifer Glynn is a detailed and enthusiastic TV and Movie News writer living in Tasmania, Australia. She had been part of the Collider team since 2022. When she is not bringing you the latest ...

Alan Menken is set to compose original songs and score for Skydance Animation's 'Spellbound.' By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor “Alan Menken’s music defines a generation and is loved by audiences around ...