Composer Alan Menken achieves well deserved EGOT status

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Legendary composer Alan Menken has become the 16th person in history to achieve an EGOT: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award recipient.

This accolade comes after he received an Emmy award for Best Original Song in a Children's, Young Adult or Animated Program for ‘Waiting in the Wings’ from his Disney Channel show, Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventures.

To date, Menken has won eight Oscars, eleven Grammies and one Tony Award. Whilst he won a honorary Emmy 30 years ago, the recent Emmy win is his first in a competitive category.

Along with the previously reported Spellbound! animated film, Menken is currently working on the live-action version of The Little Mermaid, A Night at the Museum musical and a stage production of Hercules.