It was this concept that turned things around for Disney. “It was Howard’s dream to create animated films that were really mini-musicals. And they all liked what we’d done with Little Shop.”
We were definitely at the right place at the right time with the right people, because David Geffen and Cameron Mackintosh produced Little Shop, and they knew Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was brought on to Disney to revive its motion picture division.
Little Shop of Horrors kicked it all the way open. Rosewater cracked open the door for Howard and I. They would go on to collaborate on the 1982 off-Broadway musical, The Little Shop of Ho,rrors which still holds the honour of being the highest-grossing off-Broadway musical of all time. When I lost Howard, I had to find someone to fill those enormous shoes, and that was Tim, Rice who was working on The Lion King for Disney at the time,” says Menken, whose first collaboration with Ashman was on the Broadway musical version of Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. He could always find a smart way to tell a story and he was always so inventive. “It was Howard who pitched the idea of Aladdin to Disney while we were working on The Little Mermaid in the mid-1980s. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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