“Op Zoek Naar Joseph” or “J?” is the Dutch version of the television audition show “Any Dream Will Do” where 11 consterest are fighting for the viewers sympthy and support to win the leading male role of Joseph in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The famous hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on [...]
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Continuing on my earlier post, the one with the Alan Menken Medley. The guy is honored and people love his Disney songs but it seems they forget he’s a score composer in the first place; the songs are merely part of the movie’s score. And with dialogue and sound effects scores are pushed to the [...]
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Looking for Alan to perform Little Shop of Horrors songs I came across a recent live performanceAC of him doing a medley of his most memorable songs. He did a concert a school playing besides Little Shop of course selection of all the Disney productions he worked on. Okay so he isn’t the world’s best [...]
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Broadwayworld.com reports the death of singer, actor who lost a battle against cancer. We know Bruce as the singing voice of the Peddler preforming “Arabian Nights” He could also be heard in “Beauty and the Beast” and was a broadway beast for many years playing in shows like Fiddler On The Roof, Oliver!, The [...]
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PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, will release “Howard Sings Ashman” this fall as the next volume in its ongoing Songwriter Series.
The disc will feature performances by the late Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning lyricist of Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors [...]
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Animated News pointed to a Jim Hill article on Kelly Butler’s first solo album “Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust”. The Disney album includes several classic Alan Menken songs from Pocahontas and Hunchback as well as rare gems like the never heard before female take on Alan and Howard’s early Princess Jasmine song that got cut [...]
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It’s rare that a big live orchestra does a Disney medley, it’s even rarer if that medley is from one film not mention the rarity it happens to be Alan Menken’s score and songs from Aladdin.
The Puerto Rico Symphonic orchestra did just that. Their Aladdin Suite includes all the songs and pieces of The [...]
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Rajah tries to stop his mistress, Princess Jasmine from running away from home out into an unknown and dangerous world. This cute coloring page comes from a coloring book I purchased last year after some spicing it up with border and text it’s ready for coloring.
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Heather pointed me to an playbill article about Aladdin’s composer Alan Menken who got yet again recognition for his work. Having earned Academy Awards, ten Grammys and seven Golden Globes most for his Disney songs Alan Menken will be made immortal as he joins Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 19.
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I was schocked to read that Enchanted didn’t bring home the Best Song Oscar despite having three nominated songs. Also I was sad to learn that the score didn’t win either. Considering the songs are more fresh and orginal in a Disney semi-animated film in almost a decade, and the first time Alan Menken wrote [...]
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