The Heartbreaking Story Behind Disney’s ‘aladdin’

Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post: Entertainment
Fri, 04/20/2018 - 1:19pm

Once upon a time, Disney handed Howard Ashman and Alan Menken an amazing — and terrifying — opportunity. “We were hired basically to help reinvent animation,” Menken tells The Post of that offer, made in the mid-’80s. “Our assignment was to create works that could sit on the shelf with the classics.” Chances are the...

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