EGOT Menken - who also proudly points out that he has an Evening Standard Theatre Award (for Best Musical for Little Shop of Horrors in 1983) amongst his bursting awards cabinet - is set to delve deeper into his storied career which spans more than 40 years as he takes to the stage at the London Palladium on March 9 for two shows - a matinee and an evening performance.
While Hunchback’s big screen return is not on the cards at the moment, Menken says he’s “thrilled” that a musical stage adaptation will be coming to the UK for two concert performances at the Prince Edward Theatre in London’s West End on August 17.
Alan Menken has confirmed that the previously announced live action version of Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame is currently dead in the water, but that he “wouldn’t bet against it happening at some point”.
The original animated movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame was released by Disney in 1996 and was based on the 1831 book of the same name by French author Victor Hugo.
Speaking to The Standard ahead of his first ever UK solo shows in London’s West End next month, he was drawn on the latest, saying: “I wish it was [still happening].
