Alan Menken

With 2007's Enchanted, starring Golden Globe Award nominee Amy Adams, Disney intentionally produced a throwback to the classic animated musical. In keeping with the actual animation, which ditches modern digital processes, composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz wrote music that reconnected with Disney's roots in Tin Pan Alley and light classical. Then again, this is 2007. There's no escaping the modern pop of Carrie Underwood ("Ever Ever After") and Jon McLaughlin ("So Close").