In 2017, composer Alan Menken achieved EGOT standing with a win on the Daytime Emmy Awards, turning into the sixteenth particular person in historical past to win a aggressive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
Menken gained Excellent Unique Tune in a Kids’s, Younger Grownup, or Animated Program alongside lyricist Glenn Slater for Ready within the Wings, a tune that options in Disney Channel’s Rapunzel’s Tangled Journey.
In 2012 Menken gained the Greatest Unique Rating Tony Award for Newsies. The frequent Disney contributor gained eight Oscars through the late ’80s and all through the ’90s writing music for The Little Mermaid, Magnificence and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas.
His additionally has 11 Grammy Awards, most not too long ago for Tangled in 2012.
