I’ve always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved.
ALAN MENKENI’ve always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved.
ALAN MENKENIt’s easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
ALAN MENKENHaving a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.
ALAN MENKENSo there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.
ALAN MENKENAnd, it’s also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work.
ALAN MENKENCollaboration is being open to each other’s ideas and benefiting from each other’s perspectives in an open way.
ALAN MENKENAnd all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
ALAN MENKENWhether it’s animated, whether it’s live-action, whether it’s Broadway, whether it’s television, a musical is a musical is a musical.
ALAN MENKENSo you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.
ALAN MENKENThe best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries.
ALAN MENKENWhat you’ll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.
ALAN MENKENI don’t write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment.
ALAN MENKENWhat brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg.
ALAN MENKENIt’s purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
ALAN MENKENEverything else is relative levels of hell.
ALAN MENKENIf you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go.
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