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Be Our Guest (ver. 1) by Howard Ashman - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
Be Our Guest is a 1991 Academy Award-nominated song from the animated film, Beauty and the Beast. The music was written by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman. The song was sung by Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, and other singers in the background chorus. A parody of the song was also featured in several 1993 Disney World commercials. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The title song to the film was also nominated in the same category and won. The lyrics are slightly different in the Disney movie and in the Broadway show. It was spoofed in The Simpsons with the song "See My Vest" sung by Mr. Burns, and was also spoofed on Animaniacs with the song "Be a Pest", performed by Yakko and Wakko Warner. It was also the first song on the tenth volume of Disney Sing Along Songs. It is also heard around the Walt Disney World Resort. Howard Ashman (May 17, 1950 -.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Howard Ashman (May 17, 1950 - March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several films, notably animated features for Disney, Ashman writing the lyrics and Menken composing the scores. Ashman was born Howard Elliott Ashman into a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland and was the artistic director of the WPA Theater in New York. His play, The Confirmation, was produced in 1979 at Princeton's McCarter Theater and starred Herschel Bernardi. He first worked with Alan Menken on a 1979 musical adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. They also collaborated on Little Shop of Horrors with Ashman as director, lyricist, and librettist. Ashman was director, lyricist and bookwriter for the 1986 Broadway musical, Smile (music by Marvin Hamlisch). Also in 1986, Ashman wrote the screenplay for the Frank Oz directed film adaptation of his musical, Little Shop of Horrors (film), as well as.
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