The West End premiere of Disney’s Hercules begins preview performances at Theatre Royal Drury Lane this evening and recently, we sat down with the musical’s composer Alan Menken and ...

At 75, Menken still has multiple projects on the go – including both a live-action remake and a stage adaptation of Tangled, the 2010 ­Disney animation loosely based on the story of Rapunzel ...

The American composer and EGOT winner on the West End opening of Hercules and Disney’s battle with the culture wars ...

News Review: ‘Disney’s Hercules’ at Theatre Royal Drury Lane Disney’s latest big budget musical is a fun spectacle with some great gags, but it won’t go down in legend ...

LOS ANGELES – NOV 16: Alan Menken at the Disenchanted Premiere at El Capitan Theatre on November 16, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA Alan Menken, the musical genius behind Disney classics such as The Little ...

Ink & Paint: Book, music and lyrics by Danielle E. Moore of New York City. This musical tells the story of the first all-women Disney animation unit, assembled for the 1940 film “Fantasia.” ...

Disney composer Alan Menken: ‘I won my first Oscar, then Howard Ashman told me he was dying’ The mastermind musician behind ‘Aladdin’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ has more Oscars than ...

When Disney came knocking, Menken had never scored a film before. “I remember our first recording session … It was the first time I’d ever had an orchestra play my work,” he says.

The Little Mermaid was the start of the so-called Disney Renaissance, a period from 1989 to 1999, during which the conglomerate produced a run of commercially successful and critically acclaimed films ...