Question: Aladdin is a musical with lyrics by an American lyricist whose first collaboration with Alan Menken was with what 1979 musical?

Context articles: Charlie Mason (lyricist)
Howard Ashman
Glenn Slater
Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Jack Feldman (songwriter)
A Whole New World
Joseph Linitz
Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
Aladdin (2011 musical)
Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular

Charlie Mason is an American lyricist whose credits include releases by Miley Cyrus, Eric Saade, Abraham Mateo, BoA, Ross Lynch, Monrose, Sergey Lazarev, Sweet California, Danny Saucedo, Sarah Connor, Robin Beck and Queensberry.
Howard Elliott Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and lyricist.
 He collaborated with Alan Menken on several works and is most widely known for several animated feature films for Disney, for which Ashman wrote the lyrics and Menken composed the music.
 Ashman and Menken began their collaboration with the musical "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" (1979), for which Ashman directed and wrote both book and lyrics.
 Their next musical, "Little Shop of Horrors" (1982) for which Ashman again directed and wrote both book and lyrics, became a long-running success and led to a 1986 feature film.
 The partnership's first Disney film was "The Little Mermaid" (1989), followed by "Beauty and the Beast" (1991).
 After his death, some of Ashman's songs were included in another Disney film, "Aladdin" (1992).
Glenn Slater (born 1968) is an American lyricist who collaborates with Alan Menken and other musical theatre composers.
 He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score for the Broadway version of "The Little Mermaid" at the 62nd Tony Awards in 2008, his second Tony nomination for "Sister Act" at the 65th Tony Awards in 2011, and his third Tony nomination for "School of Rock" at the 70th Tony Awards in 2016.
Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is a 1979 musical that marked the first collaboration of composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman.
 Based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1965 novel of the same name, the musical tells the story of Eliot Rosewater, a millionaire who develops a social conscience and creates a foundation to improve the lives of the citizens of an impoverished Indiana town.
Jack Feldman is an American Tony Award-winning lyricist who has written songs for television, film, and Broadway.
 He has worked on many Disney movies ranging from "Oliver & Company" to "", collaborating with Alan Menken on the songs for "Newsies".
 He wrote the lyrics for Barry Manilow's Grammy Award–winning song "Copacabana" and recently won a Tony along with Alan Menken for the stage musical version of "Newsies".
 Feldman grew up on Long Island in New York.
"A Whole New World" is a song from Disney's 1992 animated feature film "Aladdin", with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice.
 The song is a ballad between the primary characters Aladdin and Jasmine about the new world they are going to discover together while riding on Aladdin's magic carpet.
 The original version was sung by Brad Kane and Lea Salonga during the film.
 They also performed the song in their characters at the 65th Academy Awards, where it won Academy Award for Best Original Song as well as the first and so far only Disney song to win a Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards.
 In 2014, Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed performed the song as Aladdin and Jasmine in the film's Broadway adaptation.
Joseph "Joe" Linitz (born 1965) is an American lyricist whose songs, co-written with Phish bassist Mike Gordon, include the title track from Phish's "Round Room" and Train Song from "Billy Breathes".
Joseph McCarthy (September 27, 1885 – December 18, 1943) was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include "You Made Me Love You", and "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", from the now-forgotten "Oh, Look!"
 (1918), starring the Dolly Sisters, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu.
Aladdin is a musical based on the 1992 Disney animated film of the same name with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin.
 Beguelin also wrote the book.
 The musical includes three songs written for the film by Ashman but not used there and four new songs written by Menken and Beguelin.
Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular was a Broadway-style show based on Disney's 1992 animated film "Aladdin" with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Alan Menken.