Word: menken
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...captured his first two Oscars in 1996 in cooperation with Alan Menken for their work on "Pocahontas" (1995). He took away two more on his own this year for "The Prince of Egypt" (1998). He recently released a CD entitled Reluctant Pilgrim, featuring 11 new songs Schwartz composed and sung himself...
Composer Alan Menken, on vacation after the operatic Hunchback score, hasn't delved this deeply into pop pastiche since his 1982 off-Broadway hit, Little Shop of Horrors. The quintet of Muses, like Little Shop's black-thrush trio, tells the story, doing justice to the jaunty R.-and-B. inflections ("and then along came Zeus") of David Zippel's serviceable lyrics. The ballad Go the Distance, as pummeled by Michael Bolton, is the tune you'll hear coming from every radio, music store and elevator this summer...
...ornamentation and a triumph of the restorer's art. Disney is hoping the New Amsterdam will be an economic triumph too, as home to a lucrative stream of wildly successful Disney stage shows. First up, in May, is a concert version of King David, a new musical by Alan Menken and Tim Rice...
Judge Frollo, spoken and sung by Tony Jay--a classically-trained stage actor--steals the show as Disney's greatest villain since Snow White's wicked Queen herself. Frollo's solo "Hellfire" combines the best of the score of Alan Menken (music man for all five of Disney's last animated features) with riveting, spooky animation...
Unfortunately, the score is not Menken's greatest. Musical highlights besides "Hellfire" include the opening "Bells of Notre Dame" and "Heaven's Light," but none of these match "Circle of Life" from "The Lion King" or "A Whole New World" from "Aladdin...