Film Music Reporter

Deadline Hollywood reported this week that composer Alan Menken has teamed with lyricist David Zippel and comedy writer Marco Pennette for a musical comedy set up at ABC. The show is described as St. Elmo’s Fire meets Rent and centers on a young female musician living with other musicians as they try to make their way into the world. Unlike the currently airing musical TV hit show Glee and other musical TV show in development, Menken’s untitled project would feature in 2-3 songs in every episode, which given network TV’s usual yearly episode order of 22 or more would make it an extremely ambitious undertaking. Menken’s music can currently be heard in Walt Disney Pictures’ Tangled which currently ranks at Number 1 at the American box office and is performing above expectations, which definitely could help the Menken project in getting picked up for next fall’s TV season.