Alan Menken News

Our focus is Newsies, the crowd-pleasing musical nominated for 8 Tony Awards. Joining us at our grand piano are the show's composer Alan Menken, and librettist Harvey Fierstein, who describe the popular show's incubation period, and perform several of the show's best songs, plus a couple of others that didn't make the cut.

A American Airlines customers traveling through Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday, May 18, will have reason to rejoice with a special performance from Sister Act, Broadway's feel-amazing musical comedy smash.

"Theater Talk," the series devoted to the world of the stage, will spotlight the new, Tony-nominated musical Newsies May 20 at 5 AM ET on WNET/13. The 30-minute program will feature interviews with Newsies composer Alan Menken and librettist Harvey Fierstein , who will "describe the popular show's incubation period, and perform several of the ... (more)

Leap of Faith , the Tony-nominated musical from Alan Menken and starring Ral Esparza , will play its final performance on May 13 at the St.

Articles/News Or Photos Letter To Editor New "Ask BT" Question Free Classified Ad New Event New Poll New Forum Topic On Broadway, we now have three Alan Menken musicals, three Andrew Lloyd Webbers, two Stephen Schwartzes, five musicals about faith, two lowbrow British farces adapted or translated from old plays and set in the '60s, and four big ... (more)

"Leap of Faith," the Broadway musical co-produced by Portland resident Debi Coleman, will close Sunday, reports The New York Times .

Little Shop of Horrors is currently playing at TPAC, and lest anyone enter Johnson Theater doubting that creepiness awaits, Tennessee Repertory Theatre has shrewdly selected delightfully ominous pre-show and intermission music, featuring excerpts from the score of Disney's Fantasia , not to mention Bernard Herrmann's tension-packed strings from ... (more)

In a season filled with spiritual musicals on Broadway, reverent or not, it's poetic justice when the last Ah Men is being said and not many are still in the pews to shout Hallelujah! "Leap of Faith" is a whole lotta singing and dancing but all too repetitious.

In Her Gesture is a newly devised work in progress exploring the life model, the artist and performance focusing on the work of Chiara Stampone and the historical figure Lady Emma Hamilton.

MORE than 20 years after Beauty And The Beast became the first animated feature to contest the Oscar for Best Picture, Disney's "tale as old as time" returns in a glorious new 3D print.

If Larry the Cable Guy and Alan Menken had a child, "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" would be that bundle of joy.

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Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's popular chamber musical "Little Shop of Horrors" has always thrived on cheeky simplicity.

The Drama Desk Award nominations, announced Friday , are causing some drama of their own.

I don't know how to begin to describe to you the pure enjoyment and entertainment value I received when seeing Little Shop of Horrors, written by Howard Ashman with music by composer Alan Menken, performed by Tennessee Repertory Theatre at TPAC last week.

North Salem resident Alan Menken has the odds in his favor when the Tony Awards for Best Broadway Musical are announced at the American Theater Wing's ceremony on Sunday, June 10.

Beauty and the Beast was one of the last great fairytales Disney hadn't done, so we spent about nine months developing it.

I've noticed many of the dogs "up for adoption" at Hi-Tor Animal Care Center are pit-bull terriers.

If you are going to create a score to a live-action film that has been on the public conscience for over 70 years as a Disney animated classic, you've got some pretty tall shoes to fill, let alone need someone with monstrous creative depth.

Bainbridge High School's spring musical, "Little Shop of Horrors," continues at 7:30 p.m. April 27-28 and May 3-5 in the LGI Room.