Dear Barbara, thank you. I started Newsies, but I stopped after 15min because it was not that easy to get into the story in the beginning, but I wanted to watch it before I saw your reaction and now I am in love with the music! Thank you for giving me a reason to brighten my horizon and giving me the excitement to try something new!
This made me so freaking happy I'll pin it to the top so I can smile every time I check on this video. Thank you so much for saying that ❤ I'm so glad you got into it and enjoyed the music, it deserves all the love
Newsies is a comfort musical of mine! The Overture makes me sob each time, just cuz of all the musical references to the songs You. Are. Going. To. LOVE THE DANCING!!
Rule number one of watching newsies: stay for the credits! But really, the dancing in this in unbelievable, and there are no other songs that get me as hyped as these
Newsies is one of those shows that’s just *easy* to watch and like. It’s impactful and meaningful, but not annoying or too over the top about it. And, my gods, it’s sooooo pretty to listen to! It’s one of those comfort shows to watch when you want to feel good about the world. It’s lovely, and your reaction and commentary was fantastic, as always! 💜
You get the chills because you're listening to Jeremy Jordan singing-- that's just a normal reaction to him. With the addition of his talent for really get the emotion in his voice, perfection. I totally teach this as part of my musical unit in my drama lit class purely for selfish purposes.
I got to see the OBC (a week after they were on the Tony Awards) with my older sister (who grew up a Newsies movie fan) and our seats were literally 3 rows away from the stage... if you ever get the chance to see the show up close, take it! The dancing was incredible up close (should also mention that the moving set pieces were HUGE and a small part of me always worried it would topple over onto us when they moved forward lol) and I managed to get one of the newspapers that was danced on and thrown during Seize the Day (btw, the audience went absolutely NUTS when the song ended)... everyone was incredible and super sweet when I did stage door afterwards and I'm so happy that some of them came back to do the pro-shot (esp. Jeremy Jordan - his Santa Fe live is an experience :D)! Glad you got to react to this! :D
Medda Larkin is a bi icon and nobody can change my mind. she’s singing a whole song about how she has everything in the world she could want, including men falling at her feet to please her, but she doesn’t want a single one of them. CLEARLY the song is about how she is in love with a woman thank you for coming to my TED talk
Once and For All is my absolute fav song musically in this show. The tension is building the ENTIRE song - it starts in A minor and you hear all these tritones in the accompaniment (one of the most dissonant intervals, which creates extra tension) which just builds up and up and up same with that fast tempo until you get the three times the ensemble repeats "once and for all" getting higher and louder each time until the song finally FINALLY resolves into the parallel major with big full chords it's absolutely FANTASTIC and I could go on about it all day
Crutchie's original actor and the one in the recording is actually Andrew Keenan Bolger, who also graduated from University of Michigan, the same place Starkid started. Plus on the non- PG side "with their sticks and their slugs" in Once and for All , slugs are bullets. They are saying that Pulitzer's goons would have shot them! Also "soaking em" means beat them up. Hence why in the U.S. at least the only songs that schools do is Seize the Day.
What you said about people being surrounded by abundance and prosperity while struggling to survive is a common "theme" ig of the U.S. Gilded Age (which is when this takes place) and the end is sort of like the early progressive era coming in... sorry double comment 😂
I did a report and presentation on the history of the strike that inspired the musical and now I can recite the entire strike with extra bits from beginning to end from the top of my head
I had to do a project on something during the industrial revolution and when I was trying to figure out my topic I saw an article that talked about Newsies, Match Girls, and Breaker Boys and I was like, newsies hello yes please so I did my project on all 3 of them. One of the questions was why you picked the topic I was like I liked the musical newsies so yeah
I hope I have to do something similar- that project would be such an easy A for me because i’ve done so much research just alone with how much the musical intrigued me
@@musical__turtles that's really cool! I knew there were some less intensive dance-wise ensemble members who were women dressed as boys, but I never knew they added girls... guess I better keep my eye out for an audition 🤣😉
7:00 I was a dresser on a production of this show and I can confirm it's incredibly tiring for the dancers. We had way more instances of swings and understudies going on than any other show I worked on at that theatre, and you could smell the Tiger Balm down the hall from the chorus men's dressing room. It was really fun, and we got a much younger crowd than our usual elderly folks, but WOW it looked like it took a toll on the performers. As for the unusual tenses when they talk - I'm not super up on the history of the dialects of New York, but it's definitely specific to that era in NYC, in lower social classes. That dialect was influenced by the huge number of immigrants who resided in New York, with Italian, Irish, and Yiddish dialects probably having the biggest influence. So I would guess the 'we is' form was influenced by some language other than English, although again I'm no expert.
Steven Schwartz and Alan Menken also recently re-worked the classic disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame and it is completely diffrent from the original film but even better! It makes my heart do flips so I suggest listening to that show as the gaps are filled very well bu the music alone!
I love this musical sm! If you want more Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Crutchie) then I highly recommend the musical Tuck Everlasting which he was in back in 2016.
also, if you haven't seen the 1997 version of Cinderella, with Brandy, Whitney Houston, Bernadette Peters & Jason Alexander, it's on Disney+ now & it's wonderful
AHHHH I LOVE THIS SHOW SOOOOO MUCH, the energy all the cast provides it's one of those shows that I adore EVERYONE one stage at once. They keep up the energy through the WHOLE SHOW IT'S INSANE! The line "You're still our brothers and we will fight for you" just floors me it's so sweet and brave
I'm sure people have suggested it, but you would love Come From Away. it's an incredible show, and while I haven't seen the show in person, I assume you can get most of the plot through the cast recording.
Ah, Newsies. I was listening to these songs a lot over the past 4-ish years. Can't imagine why. If I may be so bold, I'd like to throw in my hat for a suggestion if you're still taking them: the 2014 Tony award winner for Best Musical, A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder.
Awesome video as usual! I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much, this show is so full of life! It's so dramatic and energetic and interesting, and in that way, it oddly reminds me of Legally Blonde. I particularly adore the group numbers, though I'm always partial to them in every single musical I watch.
As a (literal) lifelong fansie and theatre kid it brings me SO MUCH JOY to watch someone discover this show for the first time and enjoy it! Yes, it's a lot, but it's just so much fun.
Not gonna lie, Newsies is my favorite musical of all time (not even exaggerating) it really is such an amazing show and it's so much fun be in as well. I played Katherine in a summer theater production about 3 years ago and it was the most fun I think I've ever had with a role (still exhausting because I hardly had any tap experience at the time, tons of other dance experience but very little tap) On another note. I have had a fan crush on every single newsie at least once. Something about boys who sing and dance WELL just is an almost guaranteed crush in my book. (However Spot Colon is still my fav Newsie)
this video made me extremely nostalgic. literally the week before the pandemic really started, i was crutchie in my high school performance of newsies. if i hadn’t been listening to the show since i was 12, the hardest thing other than the dancing would’ve been keeping the accent while singing
The actor in the movie for Crutchie is Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and he was also in the musical Tuck Everlasting. It’s a not well known musical because it had a shorter run (it ran the same time as Hamilton). That being said, it’s incredible and the songs are beautiful.
Newsies is one of my favorites!! The emotion is amazing, & I’m so happy they created a Live version (my fav personally)! One show I suggest is Tuck Everlasting, it has Andrew Kennan-Bolger, Micheal Park, Sarah Charles Lewis, Carolee Carmello, & Ben Cook (Newsies tour) & I love it sm!
This musical is great, although there is a certain irony in Disney producing a musical about the power of strikes whilst also mistreating their own employees... Also, as far as I know, live performances of this show are increasingly using both girls and boys in the ensemble, which is also more accurate to the actual strike, which also included both male and female Newsies
Newsies is one of my favourite shows of all time! And honestly, because I've seen it so many times I was yelling for you to just watch the recording since I could picture what's happening behind the camera anyways 😆😆 Again, loove your commentary! You should react to Bonnie and Clyde next, amazing cast recording :)))
"This will all make sense when I am older." I want my points now, thanks! Also the movie has baby Christian Bale as Jack which will never not be weird.
Ayy this made me so happy I love this show sm!! Your faces of awe are such a mood 😂 And since you’re a fan of Wicked idk if you’ve seen any moments or videos of Kara Lindsay (Katherine) as G(a)linda, but if not I totally recommend!
Hearing you talk about the protest song made me think you should react to Kiss of the Spider Woman. It's got a fantastic protest song, one of the characters is a radical revolutionary. It's a weird story with a lot of fantasy sequences, so as amazing as the original cast is, I recommend the Vanessa Williams cast album because there's a lot more dialogue included connecting the songs and giving context. And it's my personal favorite Kander and Ebb show.
I just discovered this channel, and this is such a great idea for a video series! I'd love it if you could react to The Scarlet Pimpernel by Frank Wildhorn. Listen to the OBC recording, and then the Encore Cast Recording. A couple of the tracks are the same, but others are sung by different actors who give them a different feel, and a bunch of the songs are in a different order, giving them a different context within the show. It's an interesting exercise to compare the choices that were made. (Also, this is only my second video of yours that I am watching, so I don't know if you do this, but it might be a good idea to read a plot synopsis before going in so you have some context. You could even read a synopsis of the book the musical is based on, which is different in a lot of details, but would be enough to give you the general idea without spoiling specifics for the show.)
Welp, I’m back into the Newsies, thank yooooouuuu 🥰🥰🥰 Edit: when the recorded show came out on Netflix, it was my birthday, so I definitely counted it as a birthday gift! 😂😂
The high school I work with was just about to tech Newsies when everything went virtual in 2019. The kids had started early to begin tapping and generally working on dance. I felt so sorry for them. We're doing Into the Woods now, that's how I found you in my feed. You had really great observations about it!💙
I love Newsies! I agree, you need to know the dialogue to get the story, but either way, all the songs are BOPS! Great reaction :D btw - I'd recommend doing a reaction on the new Dear Evan Hansen movie trailer. It's pretty short, but you can understand the story well, and it's really good :P
I love this show so much. I still listen to the OBC recordings almost daily. However, I do agree that the story could actually go deeper than it currently does. The ending seems a little bit rushed to be honest. It doesn't feel like the natural conclusion of the plot. But overall, a very solid musical: 9/10
i saw you added the mad ones!! i’m super excited for that. if i may, can i also recommend we are the tigers and the rest of love in hate nation? both of them have boots on the internet that the creators are okay with ppl watching as long as the whole thing isn’t posted
Just a girl going down a newsies reaction rabbit hole to see if anyone else gets up and goes outside to protest against something - anything when “The world will know” comes up.
Honestly I'm glad you watched Carrying The Banner before continuing - it just means some stuff later in the show will mean more if you have the gist of what's going on :)).
I know im super late, but the reason that they all use present tense for some words is that they havent been taught proper english. They are very poor, and don’t have a proper school to go to.They use ‘is’ instead of ‘was’ cuz thats what they learned. Davey, on the other hand, has grown up with parents who taught him english. He speaks more properly compared to the other newsies, who don’t seem to understand that ‘a’ becomes ‘an’ with a vowel. But then again I could be wrong, english isn’t my first language either lol Also if this isnt already on your list, you should react to Bright Star. It is a great musical lol (Also you need to watch the revival of spring awakening, I have the captioned bootleg if you want to see it in full lol :D)
i like the movie a little better but the shows singing and dancing just can’t be matched and im way more emotionally attached to the broadway show with the cast and everything
New Yorkers have different grammar choices and pronunciations. Instead of using “we give them a war” it would be “we gives thems a war”. It’s a really unique artistic choice in Newsies and is why I love it.
You should listen to In Trousers, it's the prequel of Falsettos and though it doesn't make much sense on its own it gives you an insight into why Marvin is the way that he is and ITS SO GOOD
Baby Christian Bale was my first introduction to Newsies, but the broadway show stepped it up. If you're looking for recommendations for future musicals, may I recommend "Repo! The Genetic Opera."
fun fact: if you watch race during one of the dance breaks, ben tyler cook (who plays race) kicks himself in the face and catches himself before continuing to dance.
I always say Sondheim took over the late 80s early 90s, Alan Menken took over the late 80s to late 90s maybe early 2000s and Lin Manuel took over the 2000s with influence from both ❤️
"It's like he makes you believe that singing is the norm in like the real world, that people actually sing their feelings in real life and then the song ends" and all I have to say is who says we don't, what's talking?!
Newsies is one of my favorite musicals! I like the 1992 movie as well but the broadway show is a little different. I’m glad you watched the show in the end. It was SUPER frustrating to listen to you try to piece it together with just the soundtrack. So many questions that you had would be answered by just watching it.
Suggestions: The Addams Family Musical (Original Broadway Cast) Avenue Q Batman the Brave and the Bold: Mayhem of the Music Meister Book of Mormon Cats (1998 TV Movie and 2019 Movie) Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog Henry Danger the Musical Episode K-12 Matilda the Musical Rock of Ages (Original Broadway Cast) School of Rock (Original Broadway Cast) Wicked
I've seen Matilda live actually. It has a super special place in my heart. I wouldn't be able to do a first time reaction because I already know the show but could possibly do a review type of video :)
Yes :) I did way more than that though, I just don't have space to keep them all in there and have to delete some from time to time. If you wanna watch the previous episodes, they're all here: ruclips.net/p/PLwUM6XeIYtEZQ84ENFjSkypatbND_4g2A
I LOVE NEWSIES SO MUCH IT IS MY FAV MUSICAL!!! I have been listening to a lot of Shrek the musical lately too cuz I am currently in a production of it!!!!!!
I got to do this show at a local after school theatre and let me tell you it was SO FUN!!!! Honestly one of the most high energy shows I’ve ever been in (with the exception of 25th Putnam County Spelling Bee maybe) and though we were by no means at the dance level that this show requires sometimes it was still just an incredible experience
I don’t know if anyone put Passing Strange on your radar. The pro shot was filmed by Spike Lee over the last few performances. It came out the same year as In the Heights and the cast are all Black actors and fantastic.
Do you only watch American shows? Because if not I think Our House could be a cool one to watch and see the differences between American and British theatre/humour. It's a jukebox musical based on the songs of Madness and the original West End version was professionally filmed for television so you could watch the whole show, like Legally Blonde
Dear Barbara, thank you. I started Newsies, but I stopped after 15min because it was not that easy to get into the story in the beginning, but I wanted to watch it before I saw your reaction and now I am in love with the music! Thank you for giving me a reason to brighten my horizon and giving me the excitement to try something new!
This made me so freaking happy I'll pin it to the top so I can smile every time I check on this video. Thank you so much for saying that ❤ I'm so glad you got into it and enjoyed the music, it deserves all the love
how is the story not easy to get into in the beginning... 15 minutes is barely anything
What makes the plot even better for me is that it's based on the newsboys strike of 1899.
Good luck on not going into a "Jeremy Jordan Random Singing Video" spree.
Hahahaha I will not stop myself
I watched newsies for the first time like 4 days ago and ive been in a newsies/jeremy jordan hole since
@@rhiann1997 eheheh ONE OF US
Newsies is a comfort musical of mine!
The Overture makes me sob each time, just cuz of all the musical references to the songs
You. Are. Going. To. LOVE THE DANCING!!
Just in case you didn’t catch it, in The World Will Know “the World” also refers to the name of the newspaper
Rule number one of watching newsies: stay for the credits!
But really, the dancing in this in unbelievable, and there are no other songs that get me as hyped as these
I had so much energy after watching it that I had to go for a run haha
Newsies is one of those shows that’s just *easy* to watch and like. It’s impactful and meaningful, but not annoying or too over the top about it. And, my gods, it’s sooooo pretty to listen to! It’s one of those comfort shows to watch when you want to feel good about the world. It’s lovely, and your reaction and commentary was fantastic, as always! 💜
Totally agree! Such a likeable show. And really happy you enjoyed the reaction 🥰
I've said it once and I'll say it a thousand more times, 'Once and For All' will always be a headbanger.
You get the chills because you're listening to Jeremy Jordan singing-- that's just a normal reaction to him. With the addition of his talent for really get the emotion in his voice, perfection. I totally teach this as part of my musical unit in my drama lit class purely for selfish purposes.
Hahaha fair enough
I got to see the OBC (a week after they were on the Tony Awards) with my older sister (who grew up a Newsies movie fan) and our seats were literally 3 rows away from the stage... if you ever get the chance to see the show up close, take it! The dancing was incredible up close (should also mention that the moving set pieces were HUGE and a small part of me always worried it would topple over onto us when they moved forward lol) and I managed to get one of the newspapers that was danced on and thrown during Seize the Day (btw, the audience went absolutely NUTS when the song ended)... everyone was incredible and super sweet when I did stage door afterwards and I'm so happy that some of them came back to do the pro-shot (esp. Jeremy Jordan - his Santa Fe live is an experience :D)! Glad you got to react to this! :D
Sounds like the perfect experience!
Medda Larkin is a bi icon and nobody can change my mind. she’s singing a whole song about how she has everything in the world she could want, including men falling at her feet to please her, but she doesn’t want a single one of them. CLEARLY the song is about how she is in love with a woman thank you for coming to my TED talk
I'm sorry... what??? I'm bi and... I really can't see it at all lol. Plz explain?
@@bradybeckley3343 it’s most sarcastic, just how i like to read her character
@@starbird6 OH! IM JUST STUPID, THEN! Carry on!😅
@@bradybeckley3343 no you’re good lol! i didn’t indicate sarcasm very clearly the first time
Barbra: This will be an emotional ride, won't it
Me: * already crying fansie tears 'cause Crutchie * Yes. Yes it will.
Once and For All is my absolute fav song musically in this show. The tension is building the ENTIRE song - it starts in A minor and you hear all these tritones in the accompaniment (one of the most dissonant intervals, which creates extra tension) which just builds up and up and up same with that fast tempo until you get the three times the ensemble repeats "once and for all" getting higher and louder each time until the song finally FINALLY resolves into the parallel major with big full chords it's absolutely FANTASTIC and I could go on about it all day
So nice to learn about the technical thinking process behind it! Thanks for sharing this :D
Crutchie's original actor and the one in the recording is actually Andrew Keenan Bolger, who also graduated from University of Michigan, the same place Starkid started. Plus on the non- PG side "with their sticks and their slugs" in Once and for All , slugs are bullets. They are saying that Pulitzer's goons would have shot them! Also "soaking em" means beat them up. Hence why in the U.S. at least the only songs that schools do is Seize the Day.
HOLY CRAP HE WENT TO STARKID SKOOL?!?
I CAME AS SOON AS I COULD!!
This is one of my absolute FAVORITE shows of all time. Ugh I love my dancing newsboys
What you said about people being surrounded by abundance and prosperity while struggling to survive is a common "theme" ig of the U.S. Gilded Age (which is when this takes place) and the end is sort of like the early progressive era coming in... sorry double comment 😂
I did a report and presentation on the history of the strike that inspired the musical and now I can recite the entire strike with extra bits from beginning to end from the top of my head
I had to do a project on something during the industrial revolution and when I was trying to figure out my topic I saw an article that talked about Newsies, Match Girls, and Breaker Boys and I was like, newsies hello yes please so I did my project on all 3 of them. One of the questions was why you picked the topic I was like I liked the musical newsies so yeah
I hope I have to do something similar- that project would be such an easy A for me because i’ve done so much research just alone with how much the musical intrigued me
Literally I did the happy, excited flappy flappy arms when I clicked on this video!! I wish I was a boy just so I could be a real newsies dancer!!
Gender swap Newsies anyone? Hehe 😉
If I am correct I believe that in later shows they added/switched some of them to girl newsies in the ensemble
@@musical__turtles that's really cool! I knew there were some less intensive dance-wise ensemble members who were women dressed as boys, but I never knew they added girls... guess I better keep my eye out for an audition 🤣😉
There was a female newsie actually so you can. But same my dream role is davey but I'm a girl
7:00 I was a dresser on a production of this show and I can confirm it's incredibly tiring for the dancers. We had way more instances of swings and understudies going on than any other show I worked on at that theatre, and you could smell the Tiger Balm down the hall from the chorus men's dressing room. It was really fun, and we got a much younger crowd than our usual elderly folks, but WOW it looked like it took a toll on the performers.
As for the unusual tenses when they talk - I'm not super up on the history of the dialects of New York, but it's definitely specific to that era in NYC, in lower social classes. That dialect was influenced by the huge number of immigrants who resided in New York, with Italian, Irish, and Yiddish dialects probably having the biggest influence. So I would guess the 'we is' form was influenced by some language other than English, although again I'm no expert.
Steven Schwartz and Alan Menken also recently re-worked the classic disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame and it is completely diffrent from the original film but even better! It makes my heart do flips so I suggest listening to that show as the gaps are filled very well bu the music alone!
It's on the list! ;) But I'm even more excited now knowing they worked on it
YES! LISTEN TO HUNCHBACK!
I love this musical sm! If you want more Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Crutchie) then I highly recommend the musical Tuck Everlasting which he was in back in 2016.
Nice! Thank you :D
Yes! Tuck is an AMAZING musical.
A feel good story, likeable charcters, great dances and songs, mix between emotional story and fun. Newsies has it all.
also, if you haven't seen the 1997 version of Cinderella, with Brandy, Whitney Houston, Bernadette Peters & Jason Alexander, it's on Disney+ now & it's wonderful
AHHHH I LOVE THIS SHOW SOOOOO MUCH, the energy all the cast provides it's one of those shows that I adore EVERYONE one stage at once. They keep up the energy through the WHOLE SHOW IT'S INSANE! The line "You're still our brothers and we will fight for you" just floors me it's so sweet and brave
I'm sure people have suggested it, but you would love Come From Away. it's an incredible show, and while I haven't seen the show in person, I assume you can get most of the plot through the cast recording.
I actually saw it live. Such a beautiful show
Ah, Newsies. I was listening to these songs a lot over the past 4-ish years. Can't imagine why.
If I may be so bold, I'd like to throw in my hat for a suggestion if you're still taking them: the 2014 Tony award winner for Best Musical, A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder.
Always taking suggestions. The more the better. Thank you!
Awesome video as usual! I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much, this show is so full of life! It's so dramatic and energetic and interesting, and in that way, it oddly reminds me of Legally Blonde. I particularly adore the group numbers, though I'm always partial to them in every single musical I watch.
It's so weird but in several moments it reminded me of Legally Blonde as well, even though the stories couldn't be more different
As a (literal) lifelong fansie and theatre kid it brings me SO MUCH JOY to watch someone discover this show for the first time and enjoy it! Yes, it's a lot, but it's just so much fun.
Not gonna lie, Newsies is my favorite musical of all time (not even exaggerating) it really is such an amazing show and it's so much fun be in as well. I played Katherine in a summer theater production about 3 years ago and it was the most fun I think I've ever had with a role (still exhausting because I hardly had any tap experience at the time, tons of other dance experience but very little tap)
On another note. I have had a fan crush on every single newsie at least once. Something about boys who sing and dance WELL just is an almost guaranteed crush in my book. (However Spot Colon is still my fav Newsie)
So cool you got to play Katherine! I really loved the character
@@Barbara2.0 I have always wanted to play Katherine
this video made me extremely nostalgic. literally the week before the pandemic really started, i was crutchie in my high school performance of newsies. if i hadn’t been listening to the show since i was 12, the hardest thing other than the dancing would’ve been keeping the accent while singing
The actor in the movie for Crutchie is Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and he was also in the musical Tuck Everlasting. It’s a not well known musical because it had a shorter run (it ran the same time as Hamilton). That being said, it’s incredible and the songs are beautiful.
Newsies is one of my favorites!! The emotion is amazing, & I’m so happy they created a Live version (my fav personally)! One show I suggest is Tuck Everlasting, it has Andrew Kennan-Bolger, Micheal Park, Sarah Charles Lewis, Carolee Carmello, & Ben Cook (Newsies tour) & I love it sm!
The poor GUYS head is spinning
If you haven't seen it, you should watch the musical TV show "Galavant." Same composer, pretty quick watch, catchy as hell and funny.
This musical is great, although there is a certain irony in Disney producing a musical about the power of strikes whilst also mistreating their own employees...
Also, as far as I know, live performances of this show are increasingly using both girls and boys in the ensemble, which is also more accurate to the actual strike, which also included both male and female Newsies
Well, most girl newsies did NOT join the strike.
Newsies is in my top 2 musicals of all time! The music the dancing the energy are all top notch
I have not clicked on a video quicker than I just did.
Hahahaha ❤
Yesss!!! I got so excited when I saw this upload
Newsies is one of my favourite shows of all time! And honestly, because I've seen it so many times I was yelling for you to just watch the recording since I could picture what's happening behind the camera anyways 😆😆 Again, loove your commentary! You should react to Bonnie and Clyde next, amazing cast recording :)))
"This will all make sense when I am older." I want my points now, thanks! Also the movie has baby Christian Bale as Jack which will never not be weird.
Hahahaha Ikr? It's so weird
@@Barbara2.0 He literally aged himself backwards 30 years just so he could fit the part. He's such a versatile character actor.
Ayy this made me so happy I love this show sm!! Your faces of awe are such a mood 😂
And since you’re a fan of Wicked idk if you’ve seen any moments or videos of Kara Lindsay (Katherine) as G(a)linda, but if not I totally recommend!
Ooooh I didn't know she was Glinda. She definitely has the range for it though haha
Newsies! That's one of my favorite musicals! :D
Understandable ;)
I really enjoyed your reaction! Also since you've just reacted to a show with dancing boys, I recommend Billy Elliot!!
I second this PLS It's stunning, the music makes me cry!
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It’s really just an accent thing, though I will say the accents are HEAVY in this show
If you have not seen it please react to the musical tv show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, it is so well written and the songs are amazing.
I absolutely LOVE that show
I CAME AS SOON AS I SAW THISS!!
Hearing you talk about the protest song made me think you should react to Kiss of the Spider Woman. It's got a fantastic protest song, one of the characters is a radical revolutionary. It's a weird story with a lot of fantasy sequences, so as amazing as the original cast is, I recommend the Vanessa Williams cast album because there's a lot more dialogue included connecting the songs and giving context. And it's my personal favorite Kander and Ebb show.
Oh my gosh you're so underrated!! I LOVE THE NEWSIES!! Love the commentary! You deserve to be verified
You just made my freaking day, thank you so so much!! ❤
@@Barbara2.0 *not me hyperventilating because i literally love your videos so much*
Stooooop, I can't handle this much love and may explode ❤❤❤
@@Barbara2.0 Never!! You deserve it!
I just discovered this channel, and this is such a great idea for a video series! I'd love it if you could react to The Scarlet Pimpernel by Frank Wildhorn. Listen to the OBC recording, and then the Encore Cast Recording. A couple of the tracks are the same, but others are sung by different actors who give them a different feel, and a bunch of the songs are in a different order, giving them a different context within the show. It's an interesting exercise to compare the choices that were made. (Also, this is only my second video of yours that I am watching, so I don't know if you do this, but it might be a good idea to read a plot synopsis before going in so you have some context. You could even read a synopsis of the book the musical is based on, which is different in a lot of details, but would be enough to give you the general idea without spoiling specifics for the show.)
So glad you're enjoying the series. And welcome to the channel! :D
Welp, I’m back into the Newsies, thank yooooouuuu 🥰🥰🥰
Edit: when the recorded show came out on Netflix, it was my birthday, so I definitely counted it as a birthday gift! 😂😂
This is my favourite musical. I've been wating for so long to see a reaction of thissss. I'm glad it's you I love you channel
The high school I work with was just about to tech Newsies when everything went virtual in 2019. The kids had started early to begin tapping and generally working on dance. I felt so sorry for them.
We're doing Into the Woods now, that's how I found you in my feed. You had really great observations about it!💙
Thank you so much, Denise ❤ And good luck with the show!
I love Newsies! I agree, you need to know the dialogue to get the story, but either way, all the songs are BOPS! Great reaction :D
btw - I'd recommend doing a reaction on the new Dear Evan Hansen movie trailer. It's pretty short, but you can understand the story well, and it's really good :P
I love this show so much. I still listen to the OBC recordings almost daily. However, I do agree that the story could actually go deeper than it currently does. The ending seems a little bit rushed to be honest. It doesn't feel like the natural conclusion of the plot. But overall, a very solid musical: 9/10
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I have never related to a sentence so much
Ok i'm a year late but the present tense verb thing is dialect based... it's part of the 1800s nyc accent
i saw you added the mad ones!! i’m super excited for that. if i may, can i also recommend we are the tigers and the rest of love in hate nation? both of them have boots on the internet that the creators are okay with ppl watching as long as the whole thing isn’t posted
Just a girl going down a newsies reaction rabbit hole to see if anyone else gets up and goes outside to protest against something - anything when “The world will know” comes up.
I have been waiting for this for SO LONG!!!! 🤩
Honestly I'm glad you watched Carrying The Banner before continuing - it just means some stuff later in the show will mean more if you have the gist of what's going on :)).
Oh man I was obsessed with this show in eighth grade I love it!!!
I know im super late, but the reason that they all use present tense for some words is that they havent been taught proper english. They are very poor, and don’t have a proper school to go to.They use ‘is’ instead of ‘was’ cuz thats what they learned. Davey, on the other hand, has grown up with parents who taught him english. He speaks more properly compared to the other newsies, who don’t seem to understand that ‘a’ becomes ‘an’ with a vowel.
But then again I could be wrong, english isn’t my first language either lol
Also if this isnt already on your list, you should react to Bright Star. It is a great musical lol
(Also you need to watch the revival of spring awakening, I have the captioned bootleg if you want to see it in full lol :D)
Do you guys like the movie or the show better?
Broadway show - it’s one of my favourite musicals ever
i like the movie a little better but the shows singing and dancing just can’t be matched and im way more emotionally attached to the broadway show with the cast and everything
I only watched the movie after falling in love with the broadway version so that might be why I prefer it
Love the pro-shot, never seen it live tho :(
Honestly can’t decide, it’s my favorite movie, but the musical is also my favorite musical so it’s impossible forme to choose
New Yorkers have different grammar choices and pronunciations. Instead of using “we give them a war” it would be “we gives thems a war”. It’s a really unique artistic choice in Newsies and is why I love it.
You should listen to In Trousers, it's the prequel of Falsettos and though it doesn't make much sense on its own it gives you an insight into why Marvin is the way that he is and ITS SO GOOD
Very true, I have to get to that soon!
Last five years!!! Another jeremy jordan musical :)
The Newsies soundtrack musically reminded me the most of The Little Mermaid
If you like Jeremy Jordan, check him out in Urinetown! It's one of my all-time favourite musicals!!
Baby Christian Bale was my first introduction to Newsies, but the broadway show stepped it up.
If you're looking for recommendations for future musicals, may I recommend "Repo! The Genetic Opera."
Could you react to DeathNote the Musical? Jeremy Jordan is Light and Jarrod Spector is L, the music is amazing!
fun fact: if you watch race during one of the dance breaks, ben tyler cook (who plays race) kicks himself in the face and catches himself before continuing to dance.
eek ive watched the musical movie probably eleven times 😭
OMG I LOVE NEWSIES IT IS MY FAVORITE MUSICAL EVER!!!!!!!!!!
I always say Sondheim took over the late 80s early 90s, Alan Menken took over the late 80s to late 90s maybe early 2000s and Lin Manuel took over the 2000s with influence from both ❤️
"It's like he makes you believe that singing is the norm in like the real world, that people actually sing their feelings in real life and then the song ends" and all I have to say is who says we don't, what's talking?!
You should definitely watch the original movie musical of newsies from the 90’s with Christian Bale as Jack!
Santa Fe hits different.
I’ll be honest, when I saw this, I thought this was the Christian Bale version of my childhood when I first saw this up.
Their bad grammar i think is because they are poor, so they don't know. The wealthy characters don't do that, they know good grammar
You should totally listen to Bonnie and Clyde. It’s one of my favorites
Newsies is one of my favorite musicals! I like the 1992 movie as well but the broadway show is a little different. I’m glad you watched the show in the end. It was SUPER frustrating to listen to you try to piece it together with just the soundtrack. So many questions that you had would be answered by just watching it.
We Are the Tigers!!!! It's like Heathers and Bring it On had a baby. Two words: Murderous Cheerleaders.
Sounds crazy, I like it! Hihi
Suggestions:
The Addams Family Musical (Original Broadway Cast)
Avenue Q
Batman the Brave and the Bold: Mayhem of the Music Meister
Book of Mormon
Cats (1998 TV Movie and 2019 Movie)
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
Henry Danger the Musical Episode
K-12
Matilda the Musical
Rock of Ages (Original Broadway Cast)
School of Rock (Original Broadway Cast)
Wicked
Could you please react to Matilda next? It's my favorite musical I think it's CRIMINALLY underrated
I've seen Matilda live actually. It has a super special place in my heart. I wouldn't be able to do a first time reaction because I already know the show but could possibly do a review type of video :)
@@Barbara2.0 :0
Please do Once On This Island ✨✨
It's on the list ;)
Now yo need to watch the movie, so you can see Batman (Christian Bale) Sing and dance, plus the Medda songs that aren’t in the musical
The reason they say "we's" and stuff is because it was just kinda a thing of the time and area, and most of them aren't well educated :)).
Please please please react to Billy Elliot, there's a proshot and it's so so good.
You are amazing!!!! react to 13 the musical broadway cast recordings pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease!
Recommendation if you don't know about it les misérables
The link for upcoming shows doesn't work for me
Ooooops it should work now. Thanks for the heads up! I'm also just updating it now ;)
@@Barbara2.0 are the ones with the v, the ones you already did
Yes :) I did way more than that though, I just don't have space to keep them all in there and have to delete some from time to time. If you wanna watch the previous episodes, they're all here: ruclips.net/p/PLwUM6XeIYtEZQ84ENFjSkypatbND_4g2A
:-)
Native English speakers? Aren't you British?
I'm not, but I'm flattered hihi
@@Barbara2.0 ow okay, I just thought because you went to the birtish six so assumed that you were british
The movie is better
The Newsies recording is an all-time favourite of mine because of the large cast and extravagant dance numbers
They're both on the list already :)
@@Barbara2.0 Can't wait for all your future video's!
I LOVE NEWSIES SO MUCH IT IS MY FAV MUSICAL!!!
I have been listening to a lot of Shrek the musical lately too cuz I am currently in a production of it!!!!!!
Newsies is the show i watch when having a panic attack and it just fixes all my problems
I got to do this show at a local after school theatre and let me tell you it was SO FUN!!!! Honestly one of the most high energy shows I’ve ever been in (with the exception of 25th Putnam County Spelling Bee maybe) and though we were by no means at the dance level that this show requires sometimes it was still just an incredible experience
I don’t know if anyone put Passing Strange on your radar. The pro shot was filmed by Spike Lee over the last few performances. It came out the same year as In the Heights and the cast are all Black actors and fantastic.
Do you only watch American shows? Because if not I think Our House could be a cool one to watch and see the differences between American and British theatre/humour. It's a jukebox musical based on the songs of Madness and the original West End version was professionally filmed for television so you could watch the whole show, like Legally Blonde
I'm open to shows from anywhere in the world! Thanks for the suggestion :)
Amazing!! Amazing!! Amazing! Very good!!!