Collaboration is being open to each other’s ideas and benefiting from each other’s perspectives in an open way.
ALAN MENKENSo there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.
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And all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
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It’s easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
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And, it’s also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work.
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So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.
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If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go.
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Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece.
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So there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.
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I’ve been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I’m very proud of it.
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What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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Whether it’s animated, whether it’s live-action, whether it’s Broadway, whether it’s television, a musical is a musical is a musical.
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The difference might be that in a film you have a close up. On stage you don’t.
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It’s purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
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I don’t write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment.
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Everything else is relative levels of hell.
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Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.
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