"The Little Mermaid" — Disney's latest live-action remake — makes quite a few changes from the original. One of the biggest is the addition of four new songs, written by Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel ...

Alan Menken, the celebrated film composer of the original The Little Mermaid, remembers the first time he heard about Lin-Manuel Miranda — when Broadway's future Hamilton creator was a fourth grader ...

New songs "For the First Time," "Wild Uncharted Waters" and "The Scuttlebutt" are now available to stream ahead of the film's release Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE.

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Alan Menken recalls working on "The Little Mermaid" as "a constant miracle." He and lyricist Howard Ashman were still flying high from the screen adaptation of their eccentric stage show "Little Shop ...