Adam Jacobs: Songs of Alan Menken

It's Family Night!

Enjoy a fun evening out with your kids...Dinner & Show.  Kid tickets ONLY $25.  While you enjoy a mouth watering 3-course meal by Chef Rick we will also have a special 2-course Kids Menu available to accommodate a kids taste.  :) 

Adam Jacobs, The Original Broadway Star as “Aladdin” in Disney’s Aladdin, brings his recently released debut solo album entitled “Right Where I Belong” to The Mansion Stage.  The evening will be a compilation of Alan Menken songs including well known tunes such as “Proud of Your Boy” (Aladdin), “Go The Distance” (Hercules), “Santa Fe” (Newsies), and “Suddenly Seymour” (Little Shop of Horrors) as well as other melodies from Menken’s earlier works.

Alan Irwin Menken is the American composer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992),The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010), and Disenchanted (2022), among others. His accolades include eight Academy Awards, becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars), a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of eighteen people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony ("an EGOT").

Describing his motivation for producing the album, Adam says, “I’ve always loved the clarity of storytelling within Alan’s music. All the songs in my album carry that power with them, the power to transport the listener and take them on a hero’s journey. The variety of styles on this album not only makes it fun to listen to I think, but also illustrates just how incredibly talented Alan Menken truly is as a composer.”

ALAN MENKEN ON ADAM JACOBS

For the last five years Adam Jacobs and I have shared the most incredible journey; bringing an animated character who is so close to my heart to life on a Broadway stage. And every step of the way I have been taken by Adam’s brilliant musicality and exciting stage presence as our Aladdin. Now, along with the rest of the world, I have the privilege of hearing an album’s worth of my songs, drawn from all kinds of diverse sources and moments in my composing career, brought fully to life by this amazing and talented young man. I hope everyone will find this experience as richly rewarding as I do.

– Alan Menken