As Tracy Jordan once told us, EGOT-ing is a reasonably large deal. It is a main achievement for individuals in leisure, signifying somebody successful an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, and till this weekend, solely 15 individuals might boast about it. That every one modified with this yr’s Daytime Emmy Awards, which added a brand new individual to the elite group: Alan Menken.
The composer, who’s liable for the enduring music of Disney classics like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Hercules, gained the Daytime Emmy for Finest Authentic Music in a Youngsters’s, Younger Grownup or Animated Program alongside lyricist Glenn Slater. Their track “Ready within the Wings,” written for Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure, scored them the gold and earned Menken his prestigious new title.
Menken joins the ranks of Rita Moreno, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, John Legend, and extra actors, administrators, producers, writers, and composers who’ve picked up wins for all 4 awards. Beforehand, Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Tim Rice have been the most recent to affix the EGOT membership in 2018 with their Emmy wins for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.
Menken’s first notch in his EGOT was the Oscar, which he gained two of in 1990 for his Little Mermaid music. (Menken has gained a complete of eight Oscars in his profession.) The next yr, the movie earned him his first Grammy. (He is since gone on to win 10 extra.) His Tony got here in 2012, with a Finest Authentic Rating win for Newsies, and though Menken acquired an honorary Primetime Emmy in 1990, solely his aggressive Daytime win counted towards the EGOT.
“Ready within the Wings” is a basic Menken ballad sung by Eden Espinosa, who performs the annoyed Cassandra, Rapunzel’s (Mandy Moore) finest buddy. Perhaps seize a couple of tissues earlier than you hearken to it.
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