which of his works did bring him the breakthrough?
When he was choose to write he music for his musical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel "God Bless You
Alan Menken
Menken finally achieved success as a composer when playwright Howard Ashman chose him and Engel to write the music for his musical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". The musical opened in 1979 at the WPA Theater to excellent reviews and modest box office. It transferred after several months to the Off-Broadway Entermedia Theater, where it ran for an additional six weeks.

who sings for dan stevens in beauty and the beast Titular Beast how is the song titled? Evermore when was it released? 2017 who wrote it? Alan Menken is there different versions of it? Yes 31 versions overall which series does this song belong to? Beauty and the Beast who produced it? Bill Condon was this series made into a film? Yes, Beauty and the Beast who handled the music in it? yricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken where is the composer from? America what did he start his career as? Worked as a ballet and modern dance accompanist, a musical director for club acts, a jingle writer, arranger
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Alan Menken [SEP] Breakthrough years
It opened at WPA Theater in 1982 to warm reviews. It moved to the Off Broadway Orpheum Theatre in the East Village, Manhattan, where it ran for five years. The musical set the box-office record for highest grossing Off-Broadway show of all time. It toured around the world, won theater awards and was adapted as a 1986 musical film starring Rick Moranis that earned Menken and Ashman their first Oscar nomination for the song "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space". For his body of work in musical theatre, he was awarded the BMI Career Achievement Award in 1983. In 1987, Menken and lyricist David Spencer's adaptation "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", based on the 1959 novel of the same name, was produced in Philadelphia.