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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.
[11] In retrospect, he felt they should have either produced it as a full-fledged Broadway show, or perform it as a straight concert in a different venue. [30] In 2005, Menken spoke to British music journalist Edward Seckerson about the show as part of a career retrospective for the radio show Stage and Screen. [35]
In 2007, Schwartz joined Jerry Herman as being one of only two composer/lyricists to have three shows run longer than 1,500 performances on Broadway. After Wicked, Schwartz contributed music and lyrics for a new musical that was commissioned to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen.
Joining Ortega and Menken behind the scenes are Jack Feldman, the lyricist behind the 2012 Broadway production of Newsies, and the iconic Harvey Fierstein, who wrote the book for the Broadway show ...
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 debuted on Broadway with a musical theater adaptation of Beauty and the Beast that opened in 1994 and ran for 13 years before closing in 2007. In 1997, he collaborated with lyricist Tim Rice on a musical, King David, based on the biblical character, which was performed in a concert version on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
The video by Broadway Votes reunites original 'Newsies' cast members and features contributions by Jack Feldman and Harvey Fierstein. Kenny Ortega and Alan Menken revise 'Newsies' songs to ...