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, ...

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 ...

When composer Alan Menken first joined the animated film “Spellbound,” the prospect of writing the score and songs felt “exciting and terrifying at the same time” because the story “defied a formulaic ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Spellbound,” now on Netflix, is an animated fairytale about a princess from a far away land (voiced by Rachel Zegler) whose ...

Columbiana High School’s production of “Newsies,” the smash-hit musical, will play at Columbiana High School today through ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer Alan Menken shares the story behind one of Disney's most iconic songs, 'Beauty and the Beast.' Did Bad Bunny's 'ICE out' ...

Alan Menken is opening up his Disney animated songbook. The legendary composer — who is one of the rare few to have achieved the illustrious EGOT, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award — has ...