Newsies (released as The News Boys in the UK) is a 1992 American musical drama comedy produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega in his film director's debut. Loosely is based on the New York City Newsboys Strike of 1899 and features 12 original songs (most famous is Seize the Day.) Alan Menken and J.A.C. Redford, it stars Christian Bale, David Moscow, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall, and Ann-Margret. It was Disney's first live-action live musical. The earlier musical Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks
The film was an early box office bomb and received negative reviews to be mixed at the time of its release, but later gained a large cult following on home videos. It was later adapted into a successful stage adaptation on Broadway which was nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning two.
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Plot
In 1899, 17-year-old Jackie "Cowboy", Kelly, was one of New York City's busy newspaper dealers, selling copies of New York World on the streets of Manhattan. When David Jacobs and his younger brother Les joined the "newsies", Jack noticed David's intelligence and Les's ingenuity that could be marketed and serve himself under his wings. Jack is invited to Jacobs' house, becomes captivated by their sister, Sarah, and sings his desire to escape to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Trying to outdo his business rival, William Randolph Hearst, publisher of New York World Joseph Pulitzer, raised the price for new subscribers to buy newspapers from their distribution centers. Angry, Jack and David galvanize Manhattan newsies for a strike. While others are spreading the news to newsies in other areas of New York, Jack and Les face the Pulitzer and are thrown out of his office. Bryan Denton, a reporter for The Sun , is interested in boys' stories. Jack and David take their excuse to the Brooklyn newsies, but their leader, "Spot" Conlon, is reluctant to join the strike. This undermines the Manhattan newsies, but David makes them angry until they ambush the distribution center and destroy all the newspapers. The crippled Newsie "Crutchie" was captured by the Pulitzer enforcers, the Delancey brothers, and placed in an orphanage called Refuge, run by an obscure Snyder Superintendent, who ignores orphans so he can embezzle the money given to him by city for their care.
The newsies try to fend off the strike, but the struggle turns violent and turns into a trap set by Delanceys. Just as the new members will be arrested, Spot Conlon arrives with Brooklyn Newsies and the two groups unite to evict the police. Denton puts the story on the front page of The Sun, and newsies are planning a rally. Snyder tells Pulitzer that Jack is a runaway from Protection, giving Pulitzer's legal reason to arrest him. Jack had breakfast with Sarah on the roof of the Jacobs apartment building; she tells him about her desire to escape to Santa Fe, and wonders if she will miss him.
Police broke up the rally and arrested the newsies, but Denton went in to pay their legal penalty. Snyder testifies against Jack and reveals to the others that Jack's real name is Francis Sullivan; his mother was dead and his father was imprisoned. Jack was sentenced to four years of rehabilitation at the Refugee camp. Denton was transferred as a war correspondent and could no longer report the strike. Jack is brought to the Pulitzer, who offers to waive his sentence and pay him a salary if he will work as a tension-breaker. When Pulitzer threatened to have another new member thrown into the Protection Room, Jack obeyed. The boys tried to save Jack, but he told them to leave.
The new students were surprised and disappointed to see Jack's report to work the next day. When Delanceys attacks the Jacobs, Jack steps in to rescue them, knowing this would violate his deal with the Pulitzer. The newsies learned from Denton that their strike had little effect on public opinion, as the city thrived on child labor and Pulitzer had ordered newspapers not to report the strike. Using the old Pulitzer printing press, they publish the "Banner Newsie" they distribute to child labor throughout the city. Denton shared a paper with Governor Theodore Roosevelt, exposing the child molestation at Refuge. Many child laborers join the strike, causing the city's workforce to become stuck. Jack and David face the Pulitzer, who eventually give in to their demands.
Roosevelt has captured Snyder, releasing the children from the Refuge, and thanks Jack for reminding him of the situation. He offers Jack a ride, and Jack asks to be taken to the train station so he can go to Santa Fe. The newcomers are disappointed with this, but Jack returns soon, having been assured by Roosevelt that he still has things to do in New York. As new members celebrate his return, Sarah and Jack kiss, and Spot returns to Brooklyn from Roosevelt.
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Cast
Production
Alan Menken's longtime collaborator, Howard Ashman, was too sick with AIDS to work with Menken in the film, and he eventually died on March 14, 1991. Menken brought lyricist Jack Feldman to help.
Music
Release
Newsies received a negative criticism of critiques from critics and audiences for his release and was a box office bomb, failing to refund $ 15 million.
Critical acceptance
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film's average score is 41% based on 37 reviews, with an average grade of 5/10. At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 46 out of 100, based on 19 critics, showing "mixed or average review".
Newsies have earned a measurable cultural fan base. Bale has admitted that although it is not a commercial success, his fanbase is surprisingly great, saying, "You say something bad about Newsies and you have so many people to answer."
box office
The film grossed $ 2,819,485 domestically and ranked amongst the bestselling live action films produced by Walt Disney Studios. This is due to the film being pulled from many theaters after a bad opening weekend. Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin called it the Howard the Paperboy.
Home media
In 1992, the film was released at Walt Disney Home Video, while the DVD edition of the collector was released in 2002. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the movie on Blu-ray, as the 20th Anniversary Edition, on June 19,
Award nominees
Historical strike
The actual Newsboys Strike of 1899 runs from July 20 to August 2. The strike leader was a one-eyed young man named Louis Ballat, dubbed "Kid Blink", who spoke in a heavy Brooklyn accent that was often phonetically transcribed when he was quoted by the newspaper. Kid Blink is featured in the film as a minor supporting character, while the role of the strike leader is given to Kelly's frivolous "Cowboy" Jack. Blink and other real life newsie, Maurice Cohen, is the inspiration for Kelly. The actual strike ended in compromise: World and Journal agreed to buy back all copies of unsold newspapers. The history of the 1899 newspaper strike is told in David Nasaw's book The Children of the City: At Work and at Play (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985; Oxford University Press, 1986).
Adaptation stage
Disney Theatrical Productions produces a musical stage based on a film played at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey from 25 September 2011 to 16 October, starring Jeremy Jordan as Jack and Max Ehrich ( Fenmore , The Young and the Restless ) as a substitute for Jack. Newsies!: The Musical contains songs from the movie, as well as some new numbers. The songs "My Lovey Dovey Baby" and "High Times, Hard Times" are left out of the stage of adaptation. Also, the characters Denton and Sarah combined in the music to create a new character named Katherine Plumber, a reporter brave young woman who secretly daughter Pulitzer.
On September 19, 2011 the cast, accompanied by composer Alan Menken, performed "Seize the Day" and "Santa Fe" at The View.
The Paper Mill Playhouse version includes the new song "The News is Getting Better" which was replaced on Broadway by "The Bottom Line" and Do not Come a-Knocking "which was replaced on Broadway with" That's Rich ", and" I Never Planned on You/Do not Come by Knock "Medley and" Then I See You Again "sung by Katherine and Jack replaced with" Something to Believe "." Fansies "is a term dubbed for Newsies fans during the Papermill Playhouse running performances during Newsies Fan Day, where original movie actors and musicians meet fans before the show.
The musical was opened for preview on Broadway at the Nederlander Theater for a limited engagement from March 15, 2012 through March 28, 2012 in preview and from March 29, 2012 until June 10, 2012 in its official engagement. This was then extended until August 19, 2012 after just the first weekend of preview and then extended again, this time into an open run. They do "King of New York" at the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The event continues to earn eight Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, winning Best Choreography and Best Original Score.
Currently on a US tour and a separate Italy tour.
See also
- Union Organizer
References
External links
- Newsies on IMDb
- Newsies in Box Office Mojo
- Newsies at Rotten Tomatoes
- Still movies
- New York Newsies Awards
- Newsies - The Musical - in Playbill Vault
- Newsies on Broadway
- Broadway "Newsies" in Yelp
- Broadway "Newsies" at Foursquare
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