Newsies Last Performance
Newsies Last Performance
#1Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 4:34pmHow was their final performance? I heard all of the swings went out during the finale & curtain call. Besides that, was there anything else special?
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#2Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 4:37pmWhat? They started at 3pm, how could you know about the finale that hasn't happened yet?
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#2Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 4:52pmWas at the lottery this morning. they gave out over 100 tickets, they had the cast calling the winners One guy won ran up and hugged the whole cast. Very cute.
#3Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 4:56pm
What? They started at 3pm, how could you know about the finale that hasn't happened yet?
Someone on Tumblr posted that her friend told her
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#4Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 5:03pmThen that person must be predicting those things since it hasn't happened yet.
loliveve
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/12
loliveve
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/12
RW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#7Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 5:38pmWith the show closing, I hope the cast for the tour is announced soon.
JohnyBroadway
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/12
#8Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 5:43pmSome have been predicting that Adam Kaplan will play Jack. Jeff Heimbrock from Book Of Mormon is in the cast.
#9Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 6:21pmVery enthusiastic crowd, several standing ovations throughout the show... not sure about the swings, etc., but Thomas Schumacher gave a speech at the end about how the show they originally expected to do 101 performance had over 1,000... most of the creative team took to the stage including Harvey and Howard Ashman, and they basically stayed onstage hugging and such while the orchestra played them out...
#10Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 6:27pmHoward Ashman was onstage? Did Disney bring out a hologram for the closing show? (Howard Ashman sadly passed away in 1991.)
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#12Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 6:28pmThat's what I was assuming :) happy closing, Newsies!
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#13Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 6:33pm
Their social media team is on the ball.
Final curtain call: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=761501573888185
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#14Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 7:22pm
Haterobics, I thought you were skipping it? 
Glad it was a good time!!
#15Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 7:25pm
For rear mezzanine, I was busy. For front row mezzanine, I was available.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#16Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/24/14 at 7:53pmHaha. That's awesome great seats opened up. Great video, thanks for sharing.
BWAYNerd2
Swing Joined: 8/17/14
#18Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/25/14 at 8:26am
I just heard at the end of Aladdin when the Genie was free, JIM paid tribute to Newsies, by saying he's finally going to Sante Fe. :)
And here is the Curtain Call speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyWkXaSwGTA
Updated On: 8/25/14 at 08:26 AM
OperaBwayLover
Broadway Star Joined: 5/17/07
#19Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/25/14 at 12:04pmUm...I just clicked on that link to the speech and it took me to 50Shadesthemusical.com. What gives?
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#21Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/25/14 at 12:08pm
"Some have been predicting that Adam Kaplan will play Jack"
Those who made the predication will be disappointed. Adam was passed on for someone else. I do not know who, but I know he was not cast in the national tour.
#22Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/25/14 at 12:57pm
Um...I just clicked on that link to the speech and it took me to 50Shadesthemusical.com. What gives?
Wait, what? I just double checked, the link works fine. How did that happened?
Those who made the predication will be disappointed. Adam was passed on for someone else. I do not know who, but I know he was not cast in the national tour.
That's a little bit surprising that he didn't get the role or any part in the show because of his experience in Newsies
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#23Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/25/14 at 1:08pmFrom what I understand, he only auditioned for Jack and was not offered any other part. But casting is a fluid situation and this could always change. I was told about a month ago that someone else had been offered the role.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#24Newsies Last Performance
Posted: 8/25/14 at 2:46pm
I was going to way how wrong that casting would be until I saw him perform Santa Fe. His voice is a little high, but other than that, he seems like a perfect Jack.
Adam Kaplan - Santa Fe
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