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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").
Sadie Sparks takes place in the fictional town of Harmony and follows Sadie, a teenage girl who learns she has magical powers and becomes a magician-in-training. She is guided by a grumpy, talking bunny named Gilbert, who helps her control her abilities while she manages high school life. The series reveals a weak and dangerous connection between the human world and the Magical Realm, with rifts causing magical beings to enter Harmony. In the end, Sadie uses her enhanced abilities to close the largest rift, risking her life with support from her friends, but the Wardens of Wizardry worry more rifts may follow.
