by Jeff | Nov 26, 2014
I loved Newsies on Broadway and one of the main reasons was the energetic choreography. This clip of the original Broadway cast performing on the 2012 Tony Awards showcases it beautifully.
by Jeff | Jun 20, 2014
I made a return trip to Newsies on Wednesday night. I’ve talked about doing that since I saw it back in March 2012, just a day before it officially opened on Broadway. I liked it a lot the first time, but it was even better this time out. I’d written in...
by Jeff | Dec 30, 2012
It was a busy, but overall great year — and, hey, the world didn’t end so that made it all the better. Here’s my look back at 2012. Let’s start off with highlights: Travel & Writing Merge: Will and I got away from the city for a weekend in...
by Jeff | Mar 28, 2012
It never crossed my mind as I watched Christian Bale sing and dance across a movie screen in Disney’s Newsies in April 1992 that I would end up watching it 20 years later live on a Broadway stage. After all, Newsies was a pretty giant flop for Disney and, even...
by Jeff | Feb 15, 2008
Long before High School Musical there was another Disney musical directed by Kenny Ortega (it was his feature film directorial debut coming off his stint as choreographer on Dirty Dancing) that featured teens singing, dancing… and staging a strike against New...
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