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6:10 PM PDT 07/26/2020
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Kimberly Nordyke
She won the Best Original Song award for a song from ‘Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure’, alongside lyricist Glenn Slater, on Sunday night.
Composer Alan Menken became the 16th person to achieve EGOT status on Sunday.
He joins the small group of artists who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award.
At Sunday’s daytime Emmy Awards ceremony (which focused on children’s, lifestyle, and animated programming), Menken won the award for Best Original Song in a Children’s, Young Adult, or Animated Program for Disney Channel’s Rapunzel’s tangled adventure. He composed the song “Waiting in the Wings”, sharing the Daytime Emmy with lyricist Glenn Slater. The song was performed on the series by Eden Espinosa and Hudson D’Andrea.
This is not Menken’s first Emmy, but it is his first competitive Emmy. He received an honorary Primetime Emmy Award in 1990 for his work on “Wonderful Ways to Say No” by Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, a special anti-drug produced by the television academy.
Menken has also won eight Oscars, with those triumphs for songs and scores of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas He has also won 11 Grammys, for his work on the films mentioned. Won a Tony Award in 2012 for Best Original Score for Newsies.
Previous EGOT winners include Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, and most recently John Legend, Tim Rice, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. See the full list here. (And check out a list of those within an EGOT distance award here.)
In the category Menken won Sunday night for, Disney dominated the nominees. The other four nominees were Disney Channel songs. Big Hero 6: the series and Disney Junior’s Elena of Avalor, The Lion Guard and Vampirina
This year’s Daytime Emmy Awards were presented on select categories in a June 26 ceremony that aired on CBS. The remaining categories were divided between online ceremonies that aired on July 19 (digital) and July 26 (children’s, lifestyle, and animation).
. @ AIMenken has joined the elite group of winners #EGOT with #RapunzelsTangledAdventure winning the 2020 @DaytimeEmmys award for Outstanding Original Song in a category of children’s, youth or animated show. Congratulations! #DaytimeEmmys pic.twitter.com/tqVr0wU0RB
– Disney Channel PR (@DisneyChannelPR) July 27, 2020
