Newsies

[Caity Lynn]

I'm amazed no one has started a thread for this movie!!! It's amazing.

heres the IMDB write up

July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful.

 

[ShoreRoadLady]

I enjoyed this movie a lot! It's not quite like the true story (so what else is new?), but it's fun. The songs are awfully catchy, too.

 

[Caity Lynn]

The songs are awfully catchy, too.

Amen!!! lol, every time I'm in NYC I find myself quoting the movie...and singing out loud much to the amused stares of the people around me

 

[Yeps]

I am going to New York on Monday to audition for the Broadway adaptation of Newsies.

 

[lolly_loisides]

Chookas Yeps!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Went on a breakfast 'date' once with Disney "newsie" Ele Keats (who was over 18 by that time, so don't snicker). Does that count for something?

 

[Chasseur]

Judging from that picture, very much so!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Judging from that picture, very much so!

Yeah, she was a looker. Used to dress in '40s garb and Lindy hop at "The Derby" back in the late '90s.

 

[Yeps]

Well, I am back from New York. I didn't get a part in Newsies, but I did use the rest of my afternoon to go see the Rockettes.