Noni White is an American writer and actress. White is best known for co-creating and writing the screenplay for '' Newsies'' along with her husband

Bob Tzudiker Robert "Bob" Tzudiker (born August 28, 1953) is an American writer and actor. Tzudiker is best known for co-creating and writing the screenplay for '' Newsies'' along with his wife Noni White, which was based on the real-life Newsboys' strike of ...

, which was based on the real-life

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. Newsies began as a "classic underdog story ripped from the history books", with writers Tzudiker and White approaching producer

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with an idea for a nonmusical drama; however, Disney studio head

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redirected the project to become a musical. She also shares writing credit on ''

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'' ( 1996), ''

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'' (1997), ''

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'' (1999), and '' 102 Dalmatians'' (2000). She also contributed to the film ''

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'' (1994) and has written screenplays for every major studio. The stage version of '' Newsies'' opened March 29, 2012, and closed on August 24, 2014, grossing over $100 million. The 2017 three-day cinema showing of ''Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical!'' broke ticketing records to become the highest-grossing Broadway event to date from Fathom Events. She is a member of the writers' branch of the

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. She received several nominations for the

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. Noni also works as an actress, and has appeared in ''

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'', '' 7th Heaven'' and ''

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'', among many others."IMDB: Noni White"

Awards and nominations

References

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