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Personals is a musical revue with comic scenes and songs about people writing and responding to newspaper personal advertisements.It is written by David Crane, Seth Friedman and Marta Kauffman, with songs by William Dreskin, Joel Phillip Friedman, Seth Friedman, Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz and Michael Skloff.
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals such as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003).
Eight of the film's original songs that were retained for the Broadway adaptation. [1] [3] Menken, who had both scored and written the film's songs alongside lyricist Ashman, returned to the project to write six new songs for the musical; [4] those were co-written by Tim Rice, replacing Ashman who had died in 1991, before the film was released. [5]
Schwartz made his Disney debut alongside regular Mouse House composer, Alan Menken, who had helped relaunch the studio’s animated musical fortunes with hits like The Little Mermaid and Beauty ...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a musical with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.It is adapted from Walt Disney Animation Studios' 1996 film of the same name, which in turn was based on the 1831 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo.
Menken will co-write songs for Spellbound alongside collaborated with lyricist Glenn Slater, with whom he worked on Home on the Range and Tangled. [46] Menken is also reportedly attached to a sequel to Aladdin. [47] Menken was set to work with Schwartz to write new songs for a remake of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which Menken would score. [48]
King David is a song-cycle about David whom Alan Menken deems "one of the great heroes of Jewish history", [3] and is based on Biblical tales from the Books of Samuel and 1 Chronicles, as well as text from David's Psalms. It retells the Old Testament story of the shepherd boy, David, who rises from his humble roots to become King of Israel ...
But that didn’t stop fans from putting on live versions of the musical anyway—as Stephen Schwartz, the composer of “Prince of Egypt” (not to mention Broadway shows like “Wicked ...