Musicals

Newsies
By David Alford, PG Hannah Alford By David Alford, PG Hannah Alford

Newsies

Next year will mark the thirtieth anniversary of Disney’s attempt to revive the musical. Before the “Hamilton” craze and “The Greatest Showman”, musicals had hit a slump. Except for shows like the stalworth “Annie”, the musical was seen as a fossil best left in our memories of the greats like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. Then along comes “Newsies”, a historical musical about the New York paperboys of 1899 in their campaign to fight back against the major newspapers who were trying to put the squeeze on them.

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