Entertainment Weekly - February 24 - March 3, 2017

Y SONGS

OF

ALL TIME

Disney has created the childhood soundtrack for each generation.

beloved and enduring classics.*

When Disney recruited Broadway songwriters Howard Ashman and Alan Menken

(Little Shop of Horrors), the duo adapted a musical-theater staple—the “I want” song—for

Ariel, whose gorgeous yearning for a greater purpose changed the game not

just for teen mermaids but for Belle, Hercules, Elsa, and beyond.—MARC SNETIKER

(^) THE LITTLE MERMAID / 1989
Part of Your World
SUNG BY / Jodi Benson WRITTEN BY / Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
PINOCCHIO
: WALT DISNEY/MARY EVANS/RONALD GRANT/EVERETT COLLECTION;
THE LITTLE MERMAID
: BUENA VISTA PICTURES/PHOTOFEST