Film & TV NewsAlan Menken Achieves EGOT Status With Daytime Emmy Award WinThe stage and screen composer won Outstanding Original Song in a Children’s, Young Adult, or Animated Program.
By
Dan Meyer
July 27, 2020
Alan Menken
Marc J. Franklin
Alan Menken scored EGOT status July 26 with a win at the Daytime Emmy Awards, becoming the 16th person in history to win a competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. The composer won Outstanding Original Song in a Children’s, Young Adult, or Animated Program alongside lyricist Glenn Slater for "Waiting in the Wings," from Disney Channel's Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure.
Menken won the Best Original Score Tony Award in 2012 for Newsies. The frequent Disney contributor won eight Oscars during the late '80s and throughout the '90s writing music for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas. His film work also won him 11 Grammy Awards, most recently for Tangled in 2012. The composer previously received an honorary Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the Television Academy's anti-drug special for children in 1990.
In addition to the updated scores for Disney screen-to-stage adaptations, Menken wrote the music for Little Shop of Horrors, Sister Act, and A Bronx Tale.
Among his upcoming projects is Spellbound, which reunites Menken with Slater and Tony-nominated Beauty and the Beast book writer Linda Woolverton.
Menken joins a lineup of composers to reach the coveted distinction, with Richard Rodgers becoming the first individual to EGOT in 1962. The list also includes Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Robert Lopez, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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From Beauty and the Beast to A Bronx Tale: Celebrating Alan Menken on Broadway
From Beauty and the Beast to A Bronx Tale: Celebrating Alan Menken on Broadway
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Beauty and the Beast Playbill - Opening Night
Tom Bosley and Susan Egan
Joan Marcus/Walt Disney Theatrical Productions
Susan Egan and Terrence Mann
Terrence Mann and Susan Egan in the original Broadway cast of Beauty and the Beast
Joan Marcus
Susan Egan
Joan Marcus
King David
Cast of King David
Little Shop of Horrors Playbill - Opening Night, Aug 2003
Hunter Foster and Kerry Butler in Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway
(l.-r.) Kerry Butler and Hunter Foster in the revival of Little Shop of Horrors
Hunter Foster in Little Shop of Horrors
Photo by Paul Kolnick
Little Mermaid Playbill
Sherie Rene Scott in The Little Mermaid.
Per Breiehagen
Sierra Boggess
Per Breiehagen
Sierra Boggess and ladies
Sister Act Playbill - Opening Night
Patina Miller
Joan Marcus
Victoria Clark in Sister Act
Fred Applegate, Victoria Clark, Chester Gregory and Patina Miller in Sister Act
Newsies Playbill - Opening Night
Jeremy Jordan in Newsies.
Deen van Meer
Kara Lindsay and Jeremy Jordan
Deen van Meer
The ensemble
Deen van Meer
Leap of Faith Playbill - Opening Night
Raul Esparza in Leap of Faith.
Photo by Craig Schwartz
The cast of Leap of Faith
The cast of Leap of Faith
Aladdin Playbill - April 2018
Courtney Reed and Adam Jacobs in Aladdin
Deen Van Meer
James Monroe Iglehart in Aladdin.
Cylla von Tiedemann
Courtney Reed and Adam Jacobs in Aladdin
A Bronx Tale Playbill - Opening Night
Bobby Conte Thornton and Nick Cordero
Joan Marcus
Trista Dollison, Ariana DeBose, and Christiani Pitts