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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.
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.
Schwartz is Jewish, and was born [2] in New York City, the son of Sheila Lorna (née Siegel), a teacher, and Stanley Leonard Schwartz, a businessman. [3] He grew up in the Williston Park area of Nassau County, New York, where he graduated from Mineola High School in 1964. [4]
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 ...
[2] [62] Menken again worked with Stephen Schwartz to write new songs for Disenchanted, the sequel to Enchanted, [63] Menken also worked on new music for a live-action film adaptation of The Little Mermaid, directed by Rob Marshall, with longtime The Little Mermaid fan Lin-Manuel Miranda, [64] whom Menken knew since the former's childhood, as ...
[2] 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 ...
Stephen Schwartz will see you now. The worthier wizard of “Wicked” is the one who wrote one of Broadway’s all-time top song scores and now, a little over two decades later, has overseen the ...
Miranda attended Hunter College Elementary School in New York City with Menken's niece, Jenny, and Miranda was a superfan of the Oscar-winning Disney Menken who scored and wrote songs for films ...