I am watching Newsies right now, while working on report cards - you know, a little background noise and all, and I was just thinking again about how much I would LOVE to see a stage version of this - with a little tweaking - I've always believed that Newsies could be a huge hit on stage - like a new Oliver! or Annie. Seriously, it has some great songs, a good story, family appeal - it could be totally awesome!
So I decided to take a break and google to see if Disney telepathically read my thoughts ( like it does so often for many of its brilliant ideas that I also thought up)
... and sure enough, I found this Nov. 2007 article that says, way down, at the very end:
Other upcoming Menken projects include "working with Tim Rice on King David, a stage musical of 'Newsies' [also 1992], and a couple of new movie musicals with Stephen Schwartz. There's a whole agenda of what I want to do."
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH Could it possibly be true? This could be a dream come true for me! Seriously, I'd probably fly out to New York to see it before it started its National Tour.
Also, I found this about it on wikipedia:
Stage Adaptation
Music Theater International is currently working on a stage adaptation of Newsies. In an e-mail response to a question, an MTI employee stated that "at this time, the performance rights to NEWSIES are still not available and a release date has not been set, although we are hopeful that a stage adaptation might finally be available sometime in 2008-2009".
2 comments:
amen! trying out for it, if i can.
Ok.....it's 2009! Is it out yet? The waiting is killing me...too bad it can't star Christian Bale....oh well. We can't win 'em all :)
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