The classic Disney song could have had a very different title.

In an interview with Variety following the Daytime Emmy win that officially turned him into an EGOT king, composer (and living legend) Alan Menken let slip the name of the new Disney+ live-action series that he’s working on with Luke Evans and Josh Gad that is set in the same universe as the $1 billion grossing Beauty and the Beast. This new musical series, which hasn’t formally begun production, comes from Gad and co-creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, is described by Menken as “a new Beauty and the Beast prequel.” And it’s got an …

Alan Menken, a true living legend and the composer behind (amongst other things) Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, has now reached the legendary EGOT status with a Daytime Emmy win for his typically exemplary work on Tangled: The Series (for a song called “Waiting in the Wings”). He is one of only 16 artists who have achieved this threshold, having now won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Bow down to the King. Menken was first nominated for an Oscar in 1987 for Little Shop of Horrors’ “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space” (a song specifically …

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