Age: 76
male
Alan Irwin Menken (born July 12, 1949) is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Menken's music for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) has each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010), and Disenchanted (2022), among others. His accolades include winning eight Academy Awards — becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars), a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of nineteen people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony ("an EGOT").
Alan Menken
Composer
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Suggested by enzotakerian
I'm not sure if it should take place during the Great Depression or during modern times. In a small town called Skidrow, Mushnik's Flower Shop has been going downhill in business. Mr. Mushnik himself feels like he can't even count on his only two florists, Seymour (a nerdy man working and living in the shop after Mushnik found him as an orphan on the streets) and Audrey (a kind-hearted woman in a toxic relationship with a manic dentist). Unbeknownst to each other, Seymour and Audrey really like each other. One day, Seymour decides that the shop can go in a new direction. He puts in the display window a strange and unusual plant that appears to be a bulbous flytrap (which Seymour named "Audrey II"). Suddenly, a customer walks in, fascinated by the plant and decides to buy $50 worth of roses, and then more customers pile in. At the end of the day, Audrey II wilts and Seymour eventually finds out that instead of water, it drinks BLOOD (after Seymour pricked his finger with dead roses)! Overtime, Audrey II gets advertised on the radio and on TV. The shop gets more successful as Audrey II gets bigger as Seymour gets anemic. At one point, he hears the words, "Feed Me!" coming from AUDREY II! The plant talks in a deep voice demanding more blood to feed on. Knowing that he'll lose everything if he loses Audrey II, Seymour reluctantly decides to find someone who won't be missed after death and feed the body to the plant.
