The EGOT winner got the Razzie for "High Times, Hard Times" from the 1992 movie musical "Newsies." "Newsies" was a box-office flop, but Menken won a Tony for its Broadway adaptation 20 years later.

Newsies, the musical, is based on the 1992 film by the same name and that was inspired by the real life newspaper boy strike at the turn of the 20th century that helped change child labor laws in New ...

“Newsies” is based on the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899. The Music Theatre Wichita production runs through Aug. 20. Courtesy photo These newspaper-toting ragamuffins have done it. Pitted against a ...

The Tony Award-winning Disney’s “Newsies: The Musical” will be presented by Quad City Music Guild Theater July 5-7 and 11-14 at Prospect Park Auditorium, 1584 34th Ave., Moline. Set in turn-of-the ...

The dominant story of the Newsies movie — Disney’s live-action original musical from 1992 about the newsboys’ strike of 1899 — is one of failure. Disney launched this original musical after having ...

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Feet do all the best talking in Arena Stage’s “Newsies.” Oh, there is the regular inventory of other body parts in director Molly Smith’s faithful revival, but the various gestures and vocalizations ...

Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenaged "newsies." When titans of publishing raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack rallies newsies from across the city to ...

Stop the presses: Broadway's "Newsies" is closing. Disney Theatrical Productions said Sunday it will shutter the high-energy musical about newsboys after the Aug. 24 performance, pulling the plug on a ...

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