Newsies Now Open-Ended

[broadwayboy101]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#1

Posted: 5/16/12 at 5:20pm

Congrats to all involved!
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/dont-stop-the-press-newsies-run-is-now-open-ended/?src=tp

[mmh1019]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#2

Posted: 5/16/12 at 5:29pm

it's about time!! :) happy to hear it's open-ended

[aasjb4ever]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#2

Posted: 5/16/12 at 5:33pm

This hasn’t been news since the first preview at Papermill.

[Blockhead24]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#3

Posted: 5/16/12 at 5:35pm

Shocking

[TheatreKid3]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#4

Posted: 5/16/12 at 5:35pm

Congrats to DTP and the entire cast and creative team! It's about time! Wooh!

[bwayphreak234]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#5

Posted: 5/16/12 at 5:41pm

shocker.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[kyl3fong2]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#6

Posted: 5/16/12 at 5:45pm

FINALLY it's official!!

[Emmaloucbway]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#7

Posted: 5/16/12 at 5:45pm

Whoa that's a shocker. What's next: Priscilla: Queen of the Desert to close?

[quizking101]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#8

Posted: 5/16/12 at 6:07pm

Woo! Now I don't have to worry about squeezing this in before I go to college in the fall!

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[EponineAmneris]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#9

Posted: 5/16/12 at 6:36pm

Great news!!!

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[The Pud]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#10

Posted: 5/16/12 at 6:59pm

So happy for the cast, job security!

[Jonwo]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#11

Posted: 5/16/12 at 8:54pm

Not a surprise considering how well's it been selling but glad to hear it confirmed.

[Bwaydide92]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#12

Posted: 5/16/12 at 9:35pm

I think Disney did this all on purpose. I don't think they would have brought in such big names like Menken and Fierstein just to license it out. When the economy started tanking they probably realised how they could capitalise on the story of Newsies. I think they manipulated audiences (ingeniously) to get people to rush to get the tickets to help make it a hit, and now that they are more comfortable with it sales they have made it open. They didn't want another Little Mermaid.

I know that when I was planning my trip for this summer I wanted to see Newsies. Unfortunately that hadn't extended it the first time yet so I decided on other shows and now have no time to see it.

This is all speculation of course, but Disney is probably the smartest company in the world, so I'm sure they had a plan all along.

Updated On: 5/16/12 at 09:35 PM

[EatTheBrownie]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#13

Posted: 5/16/12 at 9:47pm

Flop movie... I hate to keep pounding that into your heads.

People BEGGED Disney to license it. There were illegal HS productions happening because there is a huge cult following for the film now. The movie still remains an embarrassment to the company, to Eisner who greenlit the thing thinking he could be the man responsible for the return of the musical, and for the lead actor (Christian Bale) who to this day doesn't like talking about it and when he does he mentions how he never wants to do another musical again.

This was made so Disney could make $$$ licensing it.

You ask why Menken was brought in... There wasn't already a trunk of cut songs to just use as MTI had done with Aladdin Jr or Mulan Jr. Don't know if you all know, but even Stephen Schwartz' cut material for Mulan made it into MTIs thing. Newsies has one cut song that Menken has claimed in interviews wasn't even finished (for David's sister).

Your theory is true, though, about Aladdin. THAT was meant to dupe the public. No "official" plans to transfer, but they had every intention of doing it if it was a hit. They saved their butts majorly, though, with the decision of now announcing Broadway outright. The show sucked and would have followed in the footsteps of Mermaid and Tarzan if it opened in NY. The 5th Avenue Theater is in the business of sending shows to Bway. Paper Mill has done it, too, but not on the scale the 5th has done in recent years.

Newsies continues to shock everyone. Including the suits at Disney. And including Alan Menken who didn't want to revisit the material, he wanted to focus on new projects instead.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#14

Posted: 5/16/12 at 9:48pm

I'm pleased that the NEWSIES are open ended.
But it's hardly news.ie.

[degrassifan]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#15

Posted: 5/16/12 at 9:53pm

Congrats to all involved indeed!

[bdn223]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#16

Posted: 5/16/12 at 10:08pm

@eathebrownie
Completely agreed especially about Alladin...Menken even mentioned the Broadway transfer in his Chatterbox interview

Clarification Papermill has never had a Broadway transfer...despite it getting most of the Broadway Critics...which is likly why Disney chose Papermill to give the show some credibility before licencing it..

Also the neaderlanders had to beg disney to take the show to Broadway..this was never in the cards for Newsies, ShumockEr has been trying to quietly extinguish Newsies spark from the begining but Newsies became a forest fire...so he just had to give in and let it run its course.

Lastly if i had to bet he was planning on annoucing this at the Tony's, but Once has gained a ton of momentum..so this Disneys attempt to counteract that. On that note I would expect the National Tour announcement to come the day after the Drama Desks.

[bk]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#17

Posted: 5/16/12 at 10:11pm

It was NEVER not open-ended. They did what they did for marketing purposes. Had it tanked then they were covered with "limited engagement." It's all horse manure and now thanks to Disney marketing, you're going to see it happen a lot more, starting with Bring it On.

[Jonwo]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#18

Posted: 5/16/12 at 10:16pm

I think Aladdin's gone back to development, the general consensus seemed to be it has potential but it needed more work.

I'm sure Disney are very happy with how Newsies turned out, they'll make more money from Broadway, National Tour and international productions than if they'd simply turned it into a licensing property.

[Bwaydide92]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#19

Posted: 5/16/12 at 10:22pm

I agree with bk, but of course we'll never know if that's right. Also, be careful, Disney might be watching us now. hahahah

I don't think Bring It On is doing the same thing. I think the producers are being quite cautious with it. I think they want to make it an open run (I think the tour has been doing well), but don't want to risk too much since it hasn't been a critic favourite like Newsies.

[bwayphreak234]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#20

Posted: 5/16/12 at 10:26pm

It was NEVER not open-ended. They did what they did for marketing purposes. Had it tanked then they were covered with "limited engagement." It's all horse manure and now thanks to Disney marketing, you're going to see it happen a lot more, starting with Bring it On.

AGREED. This is why I am rooting for Once to win best musical. Plus Once is a lot more unique and has a better score. I absolutely cannot stand what I have heard of Newsies.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[EricMontreal22]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#21

Posted: 5/16/12 at 10:27pm

For once I agree with an entire post of Brownie's (I always wondered how Schwartz felt about a couple of his Mulan songs making it into Mulan Jr)

Isn't Aladdin set to have a second try sometime this year, already?

[ACL2006]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#22

Posted: 5/16/12 at 11:10pm

gee, next thing you know they'll announce Newsies will tour....

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[Jonwo]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#23

Posted: 5/16/12 at 11:13pm

'gee, next thing you know they'll announce Newsies will tour....'

I imagine that'll be announced during or the day after the Tonys, having seen the show it look like it could easily tour with little if any changes.

[JohnyBroadway]

Newsies Now Open-Ended#24

Posted: 5/16/12 at 11:21pm

Aladdin will be at the MUNY this summer.