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Newsies
''Newsies'' (released as ''The News Boys'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1992 American musical historical comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega in his film directing debut. Loosely based on the New York City Newsboys' Strike of 1899 and featuring twelve original songs by Alan Menken with lyrics by Jack Feldman and an underscore by J. A. C. Redford, it stars Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Ann-Margret, and Robert Duvall. The film was an initial box office bomb, and received negative-to-mixed reviews at the time of its release. However, it later gained a cult following on home video, and was ultimately adapted into a stage musical on Broadway. The play was nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning two including Best Original Score for Menken and Feldman. Plot In 1899, 17-year-old Jack "Cowboy" Kelly is one of many struggling newspaper hawkers in New York City, selling copies of the ''New York World'' on the str ...
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Newsies (musical)
''Newsies The Musical'' is a musical based on the 1992 musical film ''Newsies'', which was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City. The show has music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein based on the film's screenplay by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White. The musical premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 2011 and made its Broadway debut in 2012, where it played for more than 1,000 performances before touring. Productions Paper Mill Playhouse (2011) ''Newsies The Musical'' premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, from September 25, 2011, through October 16. The production was directed by Jeff Calhoun with choreography by Christopher Gattelli. This production was later transferred to Broadway with several changes in the music and actors. Broadway (2012–2014) The musical opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre for a limited engagement starting in previews on March 15, 2012, and ...
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Noni White
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, which was based on the real-life Newsboys' strike of 1899. Newsies began as a "classic underdog story ripped from the history books", with writers Tzudiker and White approaching producer Michael Finnell with an idea for a nonmusical drama; however, Disney studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg redirected the project to become a musical. She also shares writing credit on ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' ( 1996), ''Anastasia'' (1997), ''Tarzan'' (1999), and ''102 Dalmatians'' (2000). She also contributed to the film ''The Lion King'' (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 ...
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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 1899. Newsies began as a "classic underdog story ripped from the history books", with writers White and Tzudiker approaching producer Michael Finnell with an idea for a nonmusical drama; however, Disney studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg redirected the project to become a musical. He shares writing credit on ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1996), ''Anastasia'' (1997), '' Tarzan'' (1999), and ''102 Dalmatians'' (2000). He also contributed to the film ''The Lion King'' (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 re ...
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Alan Menken
Alan Irwin Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American composer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for '' The Little Mermaid'' (1989), '' Beauty and the Beast'' (1991), ''Aladdin'' (1992), and '' Pocahontas'' (1995) have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for ''Little Shop of Horrors'' (1986), '' Newsies'' (1992), '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1996), ''Hercules'' (1997), '' Home on the Range'' (2004), '' Enchanted'' (2007), '' Tangled'' (2010), and '' Disenchanted'' (2022), among others. His accolades include eight Academy Awards, becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars) a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of seventeen people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony ("an EGOT"). He is the only person to have won a Razz ...
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Jack Feldman (songwriter)
Jack Feldman is an American lyricist who has written songs for television, film, and Broadway. He has worked on many Disney movies ranging from ''Oliver & Company'' to '' The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'', collaborating with Alan Menken on the songs for ''Newsies''. He wrote the lyrics for Barry Manilow's Grammy Award–winning song "Copacabana" and won a Tony along with Alan Menken for the stage musical version of ''Newsies''. Feldman grew up on Long Island. Career Jack Feldman wrote the lyrics in the following works. Film * ''Oliver & Company'' (song: "Perfect Isn't Easy") * ''Newsies'' * '' Home Alone 2'' (song: "My Christmas Tree") * ''Thumbelina'' * ''A Goofy Movie'' * '' The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'' * ''102 Dalmatians'' (song: "Cruella De Vil 2000" Theatre * ''Newsies ''Newsies'' (released as ''The News Boys'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1992 American musical historical comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by choreographer Kenny Ort ...
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Newsboys' Strike Of 1899
The newsboys' strike of 1899 was a U.S. youth-led campaign to facilitate change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst's newspapers compensated their force of newsboys or newspaper hawkers. The strikers demonstrated across New York City for several days, effectively stopping circulation of the two papers, along with the news distribution for many New England cities. The strike lasted two weeks, causing Pulitzer's ''New York World'' to decrease its circulation from 360,000 papers sold per day to 125,000. Although the price of papers was not lowered, the strike was successful in forcing the ''World'' and ''Journal'' to offer full buybacks to their sellers, thus increasing the amount of money that newsies received for their work. This event inspired the 1992 movie musical, ''Newsies,'' which was adapted for Broadway in 2012. Background At the turn of the century, newsboys were essential to newspaper distribution. While morning editions of the paper were ofte ...
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Newspaper Hawker
A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from fixed newsstands were called newsdealers, and are not covered here. The hawkers sold only one newspaper, which usually appeared in several editions a day. A busy corner would have several hawkers, each representing one of the major newspapers. They might carry a poster board with giant headlines, provided by the newspaper. The downtown newsboy started fading out after 1920 when publishers began to emphasize home delivery. Teenage newsboys delivered papers on a daily basis for subscribers who paid them monthly. Hawkers typically purchased a bundle of 100 copies from a wholesaler, who in turn purchased them from the publisher. Legally every state considered the newsboys to be independent contractors, and not employees, so they generally were ...
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Kenny Ortega
Kenneth John Ortega (born April 18, 1950) is an American filmmaker, touring manager, and choreographer. He is known for directing the films ''Newsies'', '' Hocus Pocus'', ''The Cheetah Girls 2'', '' High School Musical'', '' Michael Jackson's This Is It'', '' Descendants'', and ''Julie and the Phantoms''. He also choreographed the films ''St. Elmo's Fire'', '' Pretty in Pink'', '' Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', and '' Dirty Dancing''; and directed multiple concert tours for Cher, Gloria Estefan, Miley Cyrus, and Michael Jackson. For his work, Ortega was honored with both a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Disney Legend Award in 2019. Early life Ortega was born in Palo Alto, California, the son of Madeline, a waitress, and Octavio "Tibby" Ortega, a factory worker. He also has a sister, Debra Ortega. Both of his parents were also born in Palo Alto, though his paternal grandparents were Spanish immigrants. He attended Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California, wher ...
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Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish–American actress, singer, and dancer. As an actress and singer, she is credited as Ann-Margret. She is known for her roles in '' Pocketful of Miracles'' (1961), ''State Fair'' (1962), ''Bye Bye Birdie'' (1963), '' Viva Las Vegas'' (1964), ''The Cincinnati Kid'' (1965), ''Carnal Knowledge'' (1971), ''The Train Robbers'' (1973), '' Tommy'' (1975), ''Magic'' (1978), '' The Villain'' (1979), '' The Return of the Soldier'' (1982), ''52 Pick-Up'' (1986), ''Newsies'' (1992), '' Grumpy Old Men'' (1993), ''Grumpier Old Men'' (1995), '' Any Given Sunday'' (1999), '' Taxi'' (2004), ''The Break-Up'' (2006) and ''Going in Style'' (2017). She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. In 2010, she won an Emmy for her guest appearance on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. Her singing and acting careers span six decades, startin ...
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Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. Known for his versatility and physical transformations for his roles, he has been a leading man in films of several genres. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. '' Forbes'' magazine ranked him as one of the highest-paid actors in 2014. Born in Wales to English parents, Bale had his breakthrough role at age 13 in Steven Spielberg's 1987 war film '' Empire of the Sun''. After more than a decade of performing in leading and supporting roles in films, he gained wider recognition for his portrayals of serial killer Patrick Bateman in the black comedy ''American Psycho'' (2000) and the titular role in the psychological thriller ''The Machinist'' (2004). In 2005, he played superhero Batman in ''Batman Begins'' and again in '' The Dark Knight'' (2008) and '' The Dark Knight Rises'' (2012), garnering acclaim for his performance in the trilogy, which is on ...
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Andrew Laszlo
Andrew Laszlo A.S.C. hu, László András (January 12, 1926 – October 7, 2011) was a Hungarian-American cinematographer best known for his work on the cult film classic '' The Warriors''. He earned Emmy nominations for '' The Man Without a Country'' in 1973 and TV miniseries ''Shōgun'' in 1980. Early life (1926–1941) I never believed I was anybody special. I still don't think so, nor did I ever believe that anyone would give a hoot hearing about who I was, where I came from, what I did at various stages of my life, and why. I am convinced the world would function equally well, or equally badly, with or without me. - Andrew Laszlo, Footnote to History, 2002 So begins a section of Andrew Laszlo's recount of his early years and speaks of the man who survived atrocities during that time and accomplished much in his later life. He was born László András in 1926 in the vicinity of Pápa, Hungary, the town where his family finally settled about the time that Andrew was three ...
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Michael Finnell
Michael Finnell is a film producer active from the 1970s to the present. He has produced several horror-comedy films, particularly with the director Joe Dante. Finnell worked for the American producer Roger Corman before emerging as a producer in his own right. His first films were ''Avalanche'' (1978) and ''Rock 'n' Roll High School'' (1979), with Corman. One of the first without Corman was the movie ''Airplane!'', in which he was listed in the end credits as "generally in charge of a lot of things". Working with Dante, Finnell then produced the modest hit ''The Howling'' in 1981 and the blockbuster ''Gremlins'' in 1984. Dante and the special effects designer Chris Walas have said that Finnell's producing style was influenced by Corman, in that Finnell was very concerned about budgeting and wanted to make sure even cheap purchases contributed to the final film. The anecdote Walas told was of Finnell engaging in long phone calls over the purchase of a kitchen knife to be used in ...
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