The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries.
ALAN MENKENThe best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries.
ALAN MENKENIt’s easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
ALAN MENKENWhat you’ll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.
ALAN MENKENCollaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece.
ALAN MENKENSo you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.
ALAN MENKENThe difference might be that in a film you have a close up. On stage you don’t.
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 MENKENEverything else is relative levels of hell.
ALAN MENKENIf you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go.
ALAN MENKENI don’t write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment.
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 MENKENSo, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.
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 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 MENKENIt’s purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
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