<P> In 1987, Menken and lyricist David Spencer's adaptation, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, based on the 1959 novel of the same name, was produced in Philadelphia . After substantial re-writes, it was produced in 2015 in Montreal . In 1992, the WPA Theatre produced Menken's Weird Romance, also with lyrics by Spencer . Menken's musical based on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Mike Ockrent, debuted at Madison Square Garden's Paramount Theater in 1994 . The show proved successful and was an annual New York holiday event . </P> <P> On the strength of the success of Little Shop of Horrors, Menken and Ashman were hired by Walt Disney Studios to write the music for The Little Mermaid (1989). The challenge was to create an animated musical film of this Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that could sit alongside the Disney classics Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella . The Little Mermaid opened to critical and commercial success and signaled a new Disney era called the Disney Renaissance . The film gave them their first Oscar win: Best Song for the song "Under the Sea". Menken also won the 1989 Oscar for Best Score . </P> <P> Menken and Ashman's Beauty and the Beast garnered them three 1991 Oscar nominations for Best Song, winning for its title song . Menken won another Oscar for Best Score . The two were working on Aladdin at the time of Ashman's death in 1991 . Subsequently, Menken went to collaborate with Tim Rice to finish the songs for the film . The film won an Oscar in 1992 for Best Song: "A Whole New World". Menken also won the Oscar for Best Score . Menken's live action musical film Newsies, with lyrics by Jack Feldman, was released in 1992 . Three more animated musical films followed . Menken collaborated with Stephen Schwartz for Pocahontas, for which the two won two Oscars: Best Song and Best Musical or Comedy Score . In 1996, the same musical team created the songs, and Menken, the score, for The Hunchback of Notre Dame . In 1997, Menken reunited with his early collaborator, David Zippel, for his last animated musical film in the series, Hercules . </P> <P> Menken also wrote the music for the Michael J. Fox vehicle Life with Mikey (1993), the holiday film Noel (2004) and Mirror Mirror (2012). His other film scores for Disney have included Home on the Range (2004), the Tim Allen remake of The Shaggy Dog (2006), Enchanted (2007) and Tangled (2010). In March 2017, Disney released a live action film adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, with the songs from the 1991 film and new material by Menken and Rice . As of 2017, Menken is collaborating on writing new songs with Pasek and Paul for a live - action film remake of Aladdin and is also working with Lin - Manuel Miranda on new music for a live - action film adaptation of The Little Mermaid . </P>

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