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...Howard Ashman and Alan Menken...
music by Howard Ashman, Allan Menken and Tim Rice...
...film employs the songwriting abilities of the late Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Tim Rice, whose melodious gifts give the story comedic ambiance. Ashman and Menken were the musical team behind past animated hits The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, for which they won two Oscars, two Golden Globes and two Grammys. Tony Award winning lyricist Tim Rice collaborates with Alan Menken on three of the songs...
...studio was just regaining its animation stride in 1989 when lyricist Howard Ashman (who with Menken wrote the songs for The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast before dying of AIDS last year) suggested a Disney cartoon musical of the Aladdin story. After he wrote six songs and a story treatment, Musker and Clements (The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid) took over. But something was wrong with the story. "It just wasn't compelling," Katzenberg says. "Aladdin's journey didn't engage." At first, the hero had a mother with a personality forceful enough...
Composer Alan Menken won four Oscars for the movies The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast with lyricist Howard Ashman. For the stage, they created Little Shop of Horrors. After Ashman died of AIDS in 1991, Menken tried various collaborators. WEIRD ROMANCE, which opened off-Broadway last week, shows how much he misses Ashman's storytelling. The two one-acts (book by Alan Brennert and lyrics by David Spencer) blend zippy tunes with cliche science fiction. A witty, upbeat song recalls how a boy fell in love with lab testing, and Ellen Greene sings gorgeous ballads. But what...