Collaboration is being open to each other’s ideas and benefiting from each other’s perspectives in an open way.
ALAN MENKENCollaboration is being open to each other’s ideas and benefiting from each other’s perspectives in an open way.
ALAN MENKENSo you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.
ALAN MENKENSo, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same 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 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 MENKENI’ve always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved.
ALAN MENKENSo there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.
ALAN MENKENCollaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece.
ALAN MENKENIt’s easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
ALAN MENKENThe difference might be that in a film you have a close up. On stage you don’t.
ALAN MENKENWhat you’ll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.
ALAN MENKENEverything else is relative levels of hell.
ALAN MENKENI’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.
ALAN MENKENIt’s purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
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.
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