NEWSIES Reviews

[LimelightMike]

NEWSIES Reviews#1

Posted: 3/29/12 at 6:52pm

Today is Thursday, March 29, marking the official opening night performance of NEWSIES! Let's welcome 'the boys' to The Graet White Way! Post reviews here!

[broadwaydevil]

NEWSIES Reviews #2

Posted: 3/29/12 at 6:53pm

I've been waiting for this thread! Break legs to all the cast and crew.

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

[CarlosAlberto]

NEWSIES Reviews #2

Posted: 3/29/12 at 6:54pm

Let's also welcome them to the GREAT White Way as well!

[kyl3fong2]

NEWSIES Reviews #3

Posted: 3/29/12 at 6:58pm

And let's also hope that Disney will extend this to an open-ended run.

[The Pud]

NEWSIES Reviews #4

Posted: 3/29/12 at 7:15pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-NEWSIES-Leaps-Onto-Broadway-Updating-LIVE-20120329

So far so good, great for Jeremy Jordan!

[shomeika]

NEWSIES Reviews #5

Posted: 3/29/12 at 7:32pm

This has "open ended run" written all over it.

please delete this user account

[The Pud]

NEWSIES Reviews #6

Posted: 3/29/12 at 7:39pm

http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/newsies/buzz/160855/did-our-word-of-mouth-panelists-rally-for-newsies

Word of mouth.

[thespian geek]

NEWSIES Reviews #7

Posted: 3/29/12 at 8:23pm

Chicago Tribune is up...

[The Pud]

NEWSIES Reviews #8

Posted: 3/29/12 at 8:30pm

http://www.wgnradio.com/news/chi-newsies-broadway-review-20120329,0,240450.column

Chicago Tribune

[NYTheatre01]

NEWSIES Reviews #9

Posted: 3/29/12 at 8:31pm

Duplicate Post ^


Updated On: 3/29/12 at 08:31 PM

[CukorLover]

NEWSIES Reviews #10

Posted: 3/29/12 at 8:37pm

That was a very polite review from Chris Jones. VERY polite.

[NYTheatre01]

NEWSIES Reviews #11

Posted: 3/29/12 at 8:38pm

Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/newsies-review-theater-305971

[CukorLover]

NEWSIES Reviews #12

Posted: 3/29/12 at 8:44pm

Matthew Murray weighs in....

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/Newsies.html
Updated On: 3/29/12 at 08:44 PM

[The Pud]

NEWSIES Reviews #13

Posted: 3/29/12 at 8:46pm

"You can call the show brashly formulaic, sentimental or simplistic, but Newsies adheres to a time-honored Disney tradition of inspirational storytelling in the best possible sense. It woiks."

Well, you might as well have a daisy and start picking off the petals, they love it, they love it not, they love it, they love it not.......



Updated On: 3/29/12 at 08:46 PM

[Jonwo]

NEWSIES Reviews #14

Posted: 3/29/12 at 8:49pm

The reviews are mostly positive so far and even the not so positive reviews admit that this will be a hit.

[blaxx]

NEWSIES Reviews #15

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:01pm

Matthew, if anyone had a question you are a bitter bitter man, I will bring up this:

A theatre critic knows when he's beat. Nothing is going to stop Newsies, Disney's new adaptation of its 1992 film musical, which just opened at the Nederlander, from becoming a monster hit. So why belabor the point? It's going to be the adolescent male's version of Annie, an Oliver! for a new generation, a staple of community and regional theaters for decades to come, and so on. Does that cover all the necessary bases? Hopefully it does, because then we can get to the least important, and undoubtedly the least remarked-upon, part of this phenomenon in the making: Newsies isn't good.

Or "I would love for my review to destroy the show. Sadly, I can't. But I will still let you know why it sucks."

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[ucjrdude902]

NEWSIES Reviews #16

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:03pm

I'm on my phone and won't have access to a comp. till tmrw. Can you guys post what they are like usual (Rave, Mixed, etc). Thanks.

[thespian geek]

NEWSIES Reviews #17

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:11pm

Associated Press - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120329/us-theater-review-newsies/

[broadwaydevil]

NEWSIES Reviews #18

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:22pm

AmNY is mostly positive, 3.5 stars.

http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/theater-review-newsies-3-5-stars-1.3632371

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

[thespian geek]

NEWSIES Reviews #19

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:24pm

Newsday ... http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/theater/newsies-cheerful-disney-on-broadway-1.3628588

[broadwaydevil]

NEWSIES Reviews #20

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:28pm

The Faster Times is mixed...

http://www.thefastertimes.com/newyorktheater/2012/03/29/newsies-review/

"“Newsies The Musical” is under no obligation to do anything but entertain. But one wonders what a musical theater composer like Adam Guettel (“Floyd Collins”) or Stephen Sondheim might have done with this story."

"And dance. The choreography by Christopher Gattelli is dazzling. The acrobatic moves – leaps and kicks, back flips and mid-air somersaults – put “Newsies” up there with “Memphis” and “Anything Goes” for the most thrilling dancing currently on Broadway."

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

[The Pud]

NEWSIES Reviews #21

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:38pm

"Jeremy Jordan, who made his first impression this season in the short-lived "Bonnie and Clyde," is the heart -- even the heartthrob -- of the action as Jack Kelly, leader of the homeless urchins. With his big jaw and his bad-boy glint, Jordan suggests the seriously comic appeal of Donald Duck's handsome nephew." WHAT?

[thespian geek]

NEWSIES Reviews #22

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:40pm

"WHAT?" was my exact reaction, too. Weirdest backhanded compliment I've ever read..

[The Pud]

NEWSIES Reviews #23

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:47pm

I'm not sure it was a compliment.

[thespian geek]

NEWSIES Reviews #24

Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:48pm

Entertainment Weekly - http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364394_20582165,00.html

Variety - http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947318