Question: Who wrote the songs for beauty and the beast 2017?

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context: Condon initially prepared on only drawing inspiration from the original film, but he also planned to include most of the songs composed by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice from the Broadway musical, with the intention of making the film as a "straight-forward, live-action, large-budget movie musical". Menken returned to score the film's music, which features songs from the original film by him and Howard Ashman, plus new material written by Menken and Tim Rice. Menken said the film would not include songs that were written for the Broadway musical and instead, created four new songs. However, an instrumental version of the song "Home", which was written for the musical, is used during the scene where Belle first enters her room in the castle.
question: Who wrote the lyrics for songs in beauty and the beast 2017 that were originally from the 1991 film?
short_answers: Howard Ashman

Howard Elliott Ashman
wikipage: Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)

context: Condon initially prepared on only drawing inspiration from the original film, but he also planned to include most of the songs composed by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice from the Broadway musical, with the intention of making the film as a "straight-forward, live-action, large-budget movie musical". Menken returned to score the film's music, which features songs from the original film by him and Howard Ashman, plus new material written by Menken and Tim Rice. Menken said the film would not include songs that were written for the Broadway musical and instead, created four new songs. However, an instrumental version of the song "Home", which was written for the musical, is used during the scene where Belle first enters her room in the castle.
question: Who composed the songs for beauty and the beast 2017?
short_answers: Alan Menken

Alan Irwin Menken
wikipage: Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)

context: Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English lyricist and author. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote, among other shows, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and "Evita"; with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote "Chess"; and with Disney on "Aladdin, The Lion King", the stage adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast", and the original Broadway musical "Aida". He also wrote lyrics for the Alan Menken musical "King David", and for DreamWorks Animation's "The Road to El Dorado".
question: Who wrote the lyrics for the songs "Aria," "How Does a Moment Last Forever," and "Days in the Sun" from beauty and the beast 2017?
short_answers: Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice

Tim Rice
wikipage: Tim Rice

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knowledge: content: Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American movie musical romantic fantasy comedy film directed by Bill Condon from a screenplay by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos. Co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films,[1][7] the film is a live-action remake of Disney's 1991 animated film of the same name, itself an adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's 1756 version of the fairy tale.
wikipage: Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)
long_answer: Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American movie musical romantic fantasy comedy live-action film remake of Disney's 1991 animated film of the same name directed by Bill Condon. Condon planned to include the songs composed by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Tim Rice from the Broadway musical. However, Menken used songs from the original film plus new material he wrote with Tim Rice. Rice wrote the lyrics for the songs, "Aria," "How Does a Moment Last Forever," and "Days in the Sun."