⭐ ALAN MENKEN ACHIEVES EGOT STATUS AFTER DAYTIME EMMY WIN ⭐
Legendary musical theatre composer Alan Menken became the 16th person ever to achieve EGOT status, after winning at the recent Daytime Emmy Awards.
He joins the elite group of entertainers who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
Menken won the Daytime Emmy Award for best original song in a children’s, young adult or animated program for Disney Channel’s Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure.
He composed the song “Waiting in the Wings,” sharing the Daytime Emmy with lyricist Glenn Slater. The song was performed in the series by Eden Espinosa and Hudson D’Andrea.
This is Menken’s first competitive Emmy win, after receiving an honorary Primetime Emmy in 1990.
Menken also has won eight Oscars, with those wins coming for songs and scores from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas. He also has won 11 Grammys, for his work on the aforementioned films. He won a Tony Award in 2012 for best original score for Newsies.
Previous EGOT winners include Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg and most recently, John Legend, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Congratulations to Alan Menken, a true musical theatre legend! ! !
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Source – https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alan-menken-achieves-egot-status-daytime-emmy-win-1304488
