Shore has also received six Golden Globe nominations, winning three consecutive awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song-" Into the West " for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ) and The Aviator ( 2004 ), making him the only the second composer ( after Alan Menken ) to have received consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Score.

With eight Academy Award wins ( four each for Best Original Score and Best Original Song ), Menken is the second most Oscarised winner in a music categoy after Alfred Newmann, who has nine oscars.

Menken has received dual Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song on four of these projects.

He collaborated with Alan Menken on several films, notably animated features for Disney, Ashman writing the lyrics and Menken composing the music.

* The Disney film was adapted for the stage by Linda Woolverton and Alan Menken, who had worked on the film.

He then began working in film, collaborating with composer Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features Pocahontas ( 1995 ), for which he received two Academy Awards, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ), and Pippi Longstocking ( 1997 ).

He first worked with Alan Menken on a 1979 musical adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

Menken received both Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for the music to the stage musical version of Beauty and the Beast which opened on Broadway in 1994.

Menken is best known, however, for his work over the past two decades with Walt Disney Pictures scoring numerous films, including Disney animated classics The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Pippi Longstocking and Home on the Range, and most recently, Disney's 2010 animated film Tangled.

Menken received the 2, 422nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 10, 2010.

On September 19, 2011 the cast, accompanied by composer Alan Menken, performed " Seize the Day " and " Santa Fe " on The View.

* Little Shop of Horrors, 1982, m Alan Menken, lb Howard Ashman ( 2, 209 ) ( the highest-grossing production in off-Broadway history ; revived successfully on Broadway )

Another doctor at the sanitarium, Dr. Menken ( Clive Revill ) is also interested in Samson, but for the purpose of experimenting on him with a new surgical technique to quell his violent temper.

When it comes time for the clinic senior staff to vote on allowing the surgical technique to be performed on Samson, Dr. West, having seen Samson with his wife, changes his vote, enabling Dr. Menken to go ahead.

As Dr. Menken leans in to listen, Samson throws a punch that lands the doctor on the floor.

Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name.

His first work with Alan Menken was writing the lyrics for the film Home on the Range in 2004 and the stage production Sister Act the Musical ( 2006 ).

He is working with Menken on the new musical version of Leap of Faith.

The musical was the first Broadway adaptation by Disney, based on the 1991 animated film by Linda Woolverton and with music and lyrics by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice.

The show, based on the 1992 film, features a book by Harvey Fierstein and music by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman.

Other productions have included Guys and Dolls, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 2001 ) by Stephen Sondheim, Taxi-Cabaret ( 2002 ), Jesus Christ Superstar, Love, Sex and Everything in Between ( a revue done in fall, 2002 ), A Chorus Line ( 2003 ), Little Shop of Horrors ( 2003 ) by Alan Menken, That's Entertainment ( a revue done in fall, 2003 ), The Last Five Years ( By Jason Robert Brown ) ( 2004 ), Pippin ( 2004 ) ( By Stephen Schwartz ), You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown ( 2004 ) and the first summer show A Summer Revue produced in 2004.

The production is notable for several reasons ; besides starring Frank Morgan, the play's female lead was Helen Menken ( who would marry Humphrey Bogart in 1926 ), and in his first Broadway outing, character actor Robert Keith, father of actor Brian Keith and one-time husband of Theater Guild actress Peg Entwistle, who committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywood Sign in 1932.

Ashman and Menken had also written eleven songs intended for Aladdin, though only " Arabian Nights ," " Friend Like Me " and " Prince Ali " were included in the finished film, for which Menken wrote several new songs with Tim Rice.

In the late 1970s, Menken wrote several shows that were successfully showcased, but were not produced.

In November 2010 Alan Menken confirmed that a musical theatre adaptation of the show is in the works with a book written by Chad Beguelin.

Disney followed up Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its commercially successful 1988 fully animated feature Oliver & Company with The Little Mermaid, an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale with songs by Broadway composers Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.

It consists of music written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist David Zippel, with vocals performed by Lillias White, LaChanze, Roz Ryan, Roger Bart, Danny DeVito, and Susan Egan among others, along with the successful single version of " Go the Distance " by Michael Bolton.

He also may have had an affair with actress Adah Isaacs Menken shortly into the marriage.

His performances included: The Pursuit of Happiness ( touring with it across the U. S. and England ), Candle in the Wind by Maxwell Anderson with Helen Hayes ( where he played his first German Nazi officer role, a type of character he came to specialize in ), The Laughing Woman with Helen Menken, Autumn Crocus, Seeds in the Wind, Liliom by Ferenc Molnár ( in which Selwart played the title role ), and The Hidden River in 1957, among many others.

Fierstein wrote the book for the stage musical Newsies, along with Alan Menken ( music ) and Jack Feldman ( lyrics ).

* 2009: Sister Act the Musical-performances from 7 May 2009, produced by Whoopi Goldberg and Stage Entertainment with music by Alan Menken and Lyrics by Glenn Slater, starring Patina Miller, Sheila Hancock and Ian Lavender.

The musical score by Alan Menken, with lyrics by Stephen Schwartz received two Academy Awards, including one for the song " Colors of the Wind ".

Schwartz returned to Hollywood in 2007 and wrote lyrics for the hit Disney film Enchanted, again collaborating with Menken.

Along with Menken, Ashman was the co-recipient of two Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards.

lang, Randy Quaid, Bonnie Raitt, Tim McGraw, and The Beu Sisters along with the film's score composed by Alan Menken.

This story was made into a one-act stage musical by Alan Menken and paired with James Tiptree, Jr's " The Girl Who Was Plugged In " as a stage production titled Weird Romance: Two One Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction.

The Variety reviewer noted :" His debut foray into his own spotlight comes with ' Songs for a New World ,' a musical revue that shows Brown to be a capable songwriter of the Alan Menken school: commercial show-tune pop with palatable sentiment and easy-to-take melody .... ' Songs for a New World ' seems to contain more cabaret convention and pianobar posing than any one revue should have to withstand.

There he met a number of notable artists, including Maya Deren ( in whose apartment he briefly lived ), Willard Maas, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Joseph Cornell, and John Cage.

In 1983, Menken received the BMI Career Achievement Award for his body of work for musical theater, including Little Shop of Horrors, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Real Life Funnies, Atina: Evil Queen of the Galaxy ( produced in workshop as Battle of the Giants ), Patch, Patch, Patch, and contributions to numerous revues including Personals and Diamonds.

Plus, other celebrities including Kim Cattrall, Whoopi Goldberg, Jonas Brothers, Alan Menken and Enrique Iglesias.

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

* Disney's Beauty and the Beast ( 13 May 1997-11 December 1999 ) by Howard Ashman, Alan Menken, Tim Rice and Linda Woolverton

** Beauty and the Beast – Book by Linda Woolverton, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, music by Alan Menken

** Alan Menken & Howard Ashman ( songwriters ) for Beauty and the Beast-Original Motion Picture Soundtrack performed by various artists

** Howard Ashman & Alan Menken ( songwriters ) for Beauty and the Beast performed by Peabo Bryson & Céline Dion

** Alan Menken ( composer ) & Howard Ashman ( lyricist ) for The Little Mermaid performed by various artists

** Alan Menken ( composer ) & Howard Ashman ( lyricist ) for " Under the Sea " performed by various artists

* The Little Mermaid-Alan Menken ( composer ); Howard Ashman ( lyricist )-For the song " Under the Sea "

** Aladdin-Alan Menken ; Howard Ashman-For the song " Friend Like Me "

** Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken ( music ), Howard Ashman and Tim Rice ( lyrics )

** The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken ( music ), Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater ( lyrics )

# Beauty and the Beast, 1994 Broadway, 1997 London, m Alan Menken, l Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, b Linda Woolverton ( 5, 461 ) ( 1998 Olivier Award winner )

1989: " Under the Sea " Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken, performed by Samuel E. Wright – The Little Mermaid +

1991: " Beauty and the Beast " Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken, performed by Peabo Bryson and Céline Dion – Beauty and the Beast †

In addition to a number of other productions with the New York Shakespeare Festival as well as numerous other companies, Greene formed a close working relationship with the WPA Theatre, where she met Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, which led to a close, long-lasting friendship.