Aladdin
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- history of Disney Company
- In Disney Company: Return to prominence
…Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Fantasia 2000 (1999). The company had experimented with computerized animation for the live-action feature Tron (1982) and realized the technology’s potential with the enormously successful Toy Story
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- In Disney Company: Return to prominence
- Oscars to Menken for best original score and to “A Whole New World” for best original song, 1992
- production by Katzenberg
- In Jeffrey Katzenberg
…features he produced—The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King—fueled Disney’s growth. Moreover, they made Disney once more a weaver of richly textured fantasies comparable to those of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s.
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- In Jeffrey Katzenberg
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- Menken
- In Alan Menken
…would become another Disney success, Aladdin (1992), and Menken subsequently teamed up with lyricist Tim Rice. Aladdin became one of Disney’s biggest animated hits, and it netted Menken two more Academy Awards. Newsies (1992), a live-action Disney musical for which Menken wrote songs (with lyricist Jack Feldman), was less successful.…
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- In Alan Menken
- Rice