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| Playbill Announces Disney's NEWSIES as next Playbill Playback - Benefitting The Actors Fund | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 02:52 pm EDT 08/08/20 | |
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| PLAYBILL ANNOUNCES DISNEY'S NEWSIES: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL AS THE NEXT PLAYBILL PLAYBACK BENEFITTING THE ACTORS FUND FEATURING APPEARANCES BY THE FILM CAST AND A BRAND-NEW BONUS VIDEO STREAMING ONE-NIGHT-ONLY FRIDAY AUGUST 21, 2020 AT 7PM ET ON PLAYBILL.COM (New York, NY) Playbill is proud to announce Disney's NEWSIES: The Broadway Musical as the next production in their Playbill Playback series. Disney's NEWSIES: The Broadway Musical will stream in its entirety, for free on Playbill.com on Friday August 21, 2020 at 7PM ET and will benefit The Actors Fund. The one-night-only streaming of the Tony® Award-winning musical was made in arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions and Disney+, and can be viewed on Playbill.com. The streaming event will feature video appearances by cast members and will conclude with a brand-new video, featuring cast members from the Broadway and North American Tour productions of NEWSIES. Captured live at The Hollywood Pantages Theatre in 2016, NEWSIES stars Jeremy Jordan, reprising his Tony Award-nominated performance as "Jack Kelly," Kara Lindsay as "Katherine," Ben Fankhauser as "Davey" and Andrew Keenan-Bolger as "Crutchie," with NEWSIES North American Tour stars Steve Blanchard as "Joseph Pulitzer," Aisha de Haas as "Medda Larkin" and Ethan Steiner as "Les." NEWSIES, the new American musical, features a Tony Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award®-winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein and is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions. NEWSIES is directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, who won a 2012 Tony Award for his work on the show. The entire creative team reunited to bring the break-out smash musical to audiences across North America. Disney Theatrical Productions is proud to partner with Playbill for the NEWSIES watch party, which is part of Disney Magic Moments. #DisneyMagicMoments lets you experience the magic of Disney wherever you may be. Enjoy Disney, Star Wars, Marvel and National Geographic with stories, video, activities and interactive fun designed to inspire imagination and discovery among kids, fans and families alike. It's all waiting for you at DisneyMagicMoments.com. And NEWSIES: The Broadway Musical and other musical favorites are now streaming on Disney+. ABOUT THE ACTORS FUND The Actors Fund is a national human services organization that fosters stability and resiliency and provides a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan. Through offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, The Fund serves everyone in film, theater, television, music, opera, radio and dance with programs including social services and emergency financial assistance, health care and insurance counseling, housing, and secondary employment and training services. Since March 18, 2020, The Actors Fund has provided more than $14 million in emergency financial assistance to over 12,000 people who work in performing arts and entertainment. With shutdowns on Broadway and in film and television, theater, concerts, dance, music and many other areas of entertainment, the need is great and growing. This emergency financial assistance is helping our most vulnerable and those in financial crisis to cover basic living expenses, such as food, essential medications, utilities and more. As the situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to evolve, The Actors Fund has temporarily transitioned to online and phone-based services, which remain available for everyone in the performing arts and entertainment community. These services include: Artists Health Insurance Resource Center, The Career Center, Housing Resources, Addiction & Recovery, HIV/AIDS, Women's Health and Senior Services, Counseling and Emergency Financial Assistance, as well as The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. To make a tax-deductible donation to The Actors Fund, visit www.actorsfund.org. ABOUT PLAYBILL Since 1884, Playbill has been the exclusive publication for Broadway and Off-Broadway theatregoers, providing complete cast and production credits for each show, as well as features and interviews highlighting the many voices that make up the theatre community. Playbill proudly serves New York's most prominent performing arts venues, including multiple venues at Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center Theater, the Metropolitan Opera House, David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, David H. Koch Theater) and Carnegie Hall; as well as theatres across the country, including the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Over the past 25 years Playbill has expanded beyond a print magazine and established itself as a trusted name in the theatre industry, offering audiences new ways to connect to Broadway and Off-Broadway around the world via Playbill.com. With over 3 million unique visitors, Playbill.com is the preeminent site for theatre news and features, delivering high-quality, original content to audiences everywhere. Over the past two decades, Playbill has also launched PlaybillStore.com, the one stop Broadway shop for theatre fans, carrying the official souvenir merchandise of Playbill and Broadway shows; PLAYBILLder, which allows school and community theatre productions around the world to build their very own Broadway quality Playbill program; Playbill Vault, a comprehensive online database of Broadway history that provides records of Broadway productions from 1930 to the present; and Playbill Travel, which takes travelers and Broadway royalty around the globe to experience the sights, sounds and tastes of the world's finest cultures, while offering world-class concerts at night. FOR MORE INFORMATION: |
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| re: Playbill Announces Disney's NEWSIES as next Playbill Playback | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 12:45 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 12:34 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
| In reply to: Playbill Announces Disney's NEWSIES as next Playbill Playback - Benefitting The Actors Fund - Official_Press_Release 02:52 pm EDT 08/08/20 | |
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| This ''Newsies'' might be one of my very favorite filmed versions of a Broadway stage musical. They beefed up the cast with a dozen more actors and brought back the beloved original principals - Jeremy Jordan, Kara Lindsay, Ben Fankhauser and Andrew Keenan-Bolger. And it was shot with 11 cameras (''Hamilton'' used 9), and captures the show's energy and dynamic dancing. For me, this salute to newsboys is extra, extra special. | |
| Link | Official movie trailer for 'Newsies' (2017) |
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| Posted by: KingSpeed 04:22 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Playbill Announces Disney's NEWSIES as next Playbill Playback - WaymanWong 12:34 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
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| I saw it at the movie theater and it was awesome. | |
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| Why does one newsie have an unlit cigar in his mouth the whole show? I thought Disney was very against smoking in their productions. | |
| Posted by: BillyD 09:49 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
| In reply to: Agreed - KingSpeed 04:22 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
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| When I watched NEWSIES on Disney Plus, there's an anti-smoking PSA before the show, and an on-screen warning about smoking depictions. The cigar seems to add nothing to the plot, and is never lit. It seems an odd choice given the athletic choreography. |
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| re: Why does one newsie have an unlit cigar in his mouth the whole show? I thought Disney was very against smoking in their productions. | |
| Posted by: royscho 10:31 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
| In reply to: Why does one newsie have an unlit cigar in his mouth the whole show? I thought Disney was very against smoking in their productions. - BillyD 09:49 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
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| Maybe because the lyrics say “that’s my cigar! -you’ll get another” (or something like that.) And it made sense to keep it out of respect to the lyrics and original intent, and it adds flavor to the character, given the time period in which the show takes place. The show was created for theatre, not Disney plus. When it was time to add the filmed version to Disney plus, it probably didn’t seem like a deal breaker. I also don’t recall the dancer smoking, he’s just chewing a cigar prop. Honestly, Disney theatrical had far more bizarre choices when it comes to “adult themes” in their shows. The suggested nudity in Mary Poppins and Frozen is far more cringey than a cigar-chomping newsboy. |
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| 'That's my cigar' ... 'You'll steal another' | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 10:32 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 10:27 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
| In reply to: Why does one newsie have an unlit cigar in his mouth the whole show? I thought Disney was very against smoking in their productions. - BillyD 09:49 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
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| The cigar is mentioned in Jack Feldman's lyric to the song ''Carrying the Banner.'' It's a reference to a real-life Newsie, Anthony ''Racetrack'' Higgins, who was mentioned in the historical coverage of the 1899 newsboys' strike in N.Y. In the original 1992 Disney movie, he was depicted (by Max Casella) as a cigar-chomping, wisecracking guy who loved to bet and hang around the racetrack. Ryan Breslin originated the role of Race on Broadway, and Ben Cook played him in the national tour (and in this filmed version). In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Cook was asked if it was a challenge to play Race with a cigar. Cook: ''It did at first. It was really hard to get used to dancing with it in my mouth the entire show. But now it's become second nature. I couldn't imagine doing it without the cigar.'' |
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