Alan Menken is an American composer and songwriter best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), and Tangled (2010), among others. His accolades include eight Academy Awards, a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, and seven Golden Globe Awards. With eight Academy Award wins, Menken is the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman, who has 9 Oscars. He has also won 11 Grammy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award, among many other honors. Menken is one of sixteen people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony.

Find a playlist of Alan’s music and ideas shared during his Happy Hour here.

Catch up on Alan’s Happy Hour below - for an hour+ of intertwining best hits and conversation with Kevin, Alan, and Maia (with a guest spot from the other Alan, Maia’s dad and longtime friend of Alan Menken). Wait for the moment when Alan plays us all out on a beautiful carpet ride, and finish up with Salastina’s Resident Artist crew and q&a from the audience.