Alan Menken A Christmas Carol

Friday, June 26, 2020

Alan Menken A Christmas Carol

The musical is based on charles dickens 1843 novella of the same name. Columbia s a christmas carol is the original broadway cast record featuring music by alan menken and lyrics by lynn ahrens.

A Christmas Carol London Musical Theatre Orchestra

The show was presented annually at new york city s paramount theatre in madison square garden from december 1 1994 to december 27 2003.

Alan menken a christmas carol. Nevertheless it s very consistent and enjoyable and worth the time of any fan of menken s later work. Menken s music is very good but the album failed to generate any popular classics. Apparently i was the first artist approached in an attempt to build an all star team to write and mount a 90 minute musical in a 6000 seat space.

The musical is a 2004 american television film based on the 1843 novella of the same name which also inspired a 1994 stage musical by alan menken and lynn ahrens. A christmas carol this exciting new semi staged musical based on the story by charles dickens is the perfect family christmas show as we follow scrooge s transformational journey from bah humbug to merry christmas everybody. I threw out some names i.

A christmas carol is a musical with music by alan menken lyrics by lynn ahrens and book by mike ockrent and lynn ahrens. Alan s thoughts when i was asked about writing a stage musical of a christmas carol for madison square garden little did i know the amazing doors it would open for me.

A Christmas Carol