Alan Menken Is the 16th EGOT
Having achieved GOT in the year 2012, Menken has waited for eight years to win his Emmy and finally achieve EGOT. He is the 16th person to receive all the awards and achieve EGOT. Before him, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice and John Legend were the 13th, 14th and 15th persons to have completed their EGOT. All three of them completed their EGOT together in the year 2018. What Is EGOT? The EGOT consists of the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Tony. Having achieved all four awards in the show business is quite an achievement and is popularly referred to as the “Grand Slam.” The first person to have collected the EGOT was Richard Rodgers. He achieved his EGOT in the year 1962 when he won his first and only Emmy. He set the stage for the other 15 EGOT winners to sweep. Rodgers was followed by Helen Hayes, who also happens to be the very first woman to have collected all four. Then, in 1975, Rita Moreno became the third person (and the second woman) to make her Grand Slam. After Rita, ...