NEWSIES Reaction - Ep. 25 of Musicals I Know Nothing About

Dear Barbara, thank you. I started Newsies, but I stopped after 15min because it was not that easy to get into the story in the beginning, but I wanted to watch it before I saw your reaction and now I am in love with the music! Thank you for giving me a reason to brighten my horizon and giving me the excitement to try something new!

Good luck on not going into a "Jeremy Jordan Random Singing Video" spree.

What makes the plot even better for me is that it's based on the newsboys strike of 1899.

Newsies is a comfort musical of mine! The Overture makes me sob each time, just cuz of all the musical references to the songs You. Are. Going. To. LOVE THE DANCING!!

I've said it once and I'll say it a thousand more times, 'Once and For All' will always be a headbanger.

Rule number one of watching newsies: stay for the credits! But really, the dancing in this in unbelievable, and there are no other songs that get me as hyped as these

Just in case you didn’t catch it, in The World Will Know “the World” also refers to the name of the newspaper

Barbra: This will be an emotional ride, won't it Me: * already crying fansie tears 'cause Crutchie * Yes. Yes it will.

Crutchie's original actor and the one in the recording is actually Andrew Keenan Bolger, who also graduated from University of Michigan, the same place Starkid started. Plus on the non- PG side "with their sticks and their slugs" in Once and for All , slugs are bullets. They are saying that Pulitzer's goons would have shot them! Also "soaking em" means beat them up. Hence why in the U.S. at least the only songs that schools do is Seize the Day.

You get the chills because you're listening to Jeremy Jordan singing-- that's just a normal reaction to him. With the addition of his talent for really get the emotion in his voice, perfection. I totally teach this as part of my musical unit in my drama lit class purely for selfish purposes.

Newsies is one of those shows that’s just easy to watch and like. It’s impactful and meaningful, but not annoying or too over the top about it. And, my gods, it’s sooooo pretty to listen to! It’s one of those comfort shows to watch when you want to feel good about the world. It’s lovely, and your reaction and commentary was fantastic, as always! 💜

I got to see the OBC (a week after they were on the Tony Awards) with my older sister (who grew up a Newsies movie fan) and our seats were literally 3 rows away from the stage... if you ever get the chance to see the show up close, take it! The dancing was incredible up close (should also mention that the moving set pieces were HUGE and a small part of me always worried it would topple over onto us when they moved forward lol) and I managed to get one of the newspapers that was danced on and thrown during Seize the Day (btw, the audience went absolutely NUTS when the song ended)... everyone was incredible and super sweet when I did stage door afterwards and I'm so happy that some of them came back to do the pro-shot (esp. Jeremy Jordan - his Santa Fe live is an experience :D)! Glad you got to react to this! :D

Medda Larkin is a bi icon and nobody can change my mind. she’s singing a whole song about how she has everything in the world she could want, including men falling at her feet to please her, but she doesn’t want a single one of them. CLEARLY the song is about how she is in love with a woman thank you for coming to my TED talk

The Newsies recording is an all-time favourite of mine because of the large cast and extravagant dance numbers <3 They said in an interview that they upped it especially for the recording; doing three pirouettes instead of two ect.. Seeing you react to something I know and love always makes my day! Recently I have been an utter and complete addict of Shrek the Musical, which is so good on so many levels! I also love Something Rotten (both with the amazing Brian d'Arcy James in the lead). Perhaps something to add to your (probably ever-growing) list!

Once and For All is my absolute fav song musically in this show. The tension is building the ENTIRE song - it starts in A minor and you hear all these tritones in the accompaniment (one of the most dissonant intervals, which creates extra tension) which just builds up and up and up same with that fast tempo until you get the three times the ensemble repeats "once and for all" getting higher and louder each time until the song finally FINALLY resolves into the parallel major with big full chords it's absolutely FANTASTIC and I could go on about it all day

What you said about people being surrounded by abundance and prosperity while struggling to survive is a common "theme" ig of the U.S. Gilded Age (which is when this takes place) and the end is sort of like the early progressive era coming in... sorry double comment 😂

Newsies is the show i watch when having a panic attack and it just fixes all my problems

JOIN THE CULT OF JEREMY JORDAN

I CAME AS SOON AS I COULD!! This is one of my absolute FAVORITE shows of all time. Ugh I love my dancing newsboys

Literally I did the happy, excited flappy flappy arms when I clicked on this video!! I wish I was a boy just so I could be a real newsies dancer!!