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crowwitchI was feeling a bit down today, naturally, and work gave me the day off, so I'm here by myself without much to do.
Trying to amuse myself, I start going through On Demand Free Movies (I love Digital Cable) and find a movie I haven't seen in, literally, at least twelve years.
I was completely obsessed with it in my early teens, as were a lot of us, so I'd kind of avoided it with a hint of embarrassment at my adolescent mania over such a lame movie. But, today I was feeing really listless and emotional so when I found it I thought it might cheer me up... after all, it's been over a decade since I watched it. I just expected to kind of laugh at myself and feel like a kid again and maybe ogle barely legal dancing boys.
I didn't expect to be bowled over and cry at the end.
Okay you guys, "Newsies" is really, really good.
Guess right?
I guess the dancing boys gave it away, and the subject line.
The choreography in the dance routines isn't that good, and Christian Bale, while handsome, charismatic, and talented is NOT a song and dance man by any means; neither is the boy who played David. (Which is kind of sad because the leads can't dance and most of the young men in the ensemble were exceptional dancers.) but the music is solid and the songs are memorable with some actually very stirring and beautiful lyrics. Yes, it's got plenty of cliché and two-dimensional stock characters, but the reasons these things become convention is because they work.
And the movie works, it's thoroughly enjoyable.
With Broadway deciding every movie that did halfway decent at the box office into a Broadway musical, why haven't they tapped this yet? With a new choreographer and some new arrangements and leads that are stronger musically it would be a completely wonderful Broadway production.
Come on, they do "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" but they can't do this?
Honestly...
I know there are people on my f-list more informed about these things than I am. Is there talk of "Newsies on Broadway"?
I know. I'm a dork.
Trying to amuse myself, I start going through On Demand Free Movies (I love Digital Cable) and find a movie I haven't seen in, literally, at least twelve years.
I was completely obsessed with it in my early teens, as were a lot of us, so I'd kind of avoided it with a hint of embarrassment at my adolescent mania over such a lame movie. But, today I was feeing really listless and emotional so when I found it I thought it might cheer me up... after all, it's been over a decade since I watched it. I just expected to kind of laugh at myself and feel like a kid again and maybe ogle barely legal dancing boys.
I didn't expect to be bowled over and cry at the end.
Okay you guys, "Newsies" is really, really good.
Guess right?
I guess the dancing boys gave it away, and the subject line.
The choreography in the dance routines isn't that good, and Christian Bale, while handsome, charismatic, and talented is NOT a song and dance man by any means; neither is the boy who played David. (Which is kind of sad because the leads can't dance and most of the young men in the ensemble were exceptional dancers.) but the music is solid and the songs are memorable with some actually very stirring and beautiful lyrics. Yes, it's got plenty of cliché and two-dimensional stock characters, but the reasons these things become convention is because they work.
And the movie works, it's thoroughly enjoyable.
With Broadway deciding every movie that did halfway decent at the box office into a Broadway musical, why haven't they tapped this yet? With a new choreographer and some new arrangements and leads that are stronger musically it would be a completely wonderful Broadway production.
Come on, they do "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" but they can't do this?
Honestly...
I know there are people on my f-list more informed about these things than I am. Is there talk of "Newsies on Broadway"?
I know. I'm a dork.
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Date: 2006-01-31 10:48 pm (UTC)visions of little red ribbons, sweetheart? ;)
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Date: 2006-01-31 11:10 pm (UTC)Seriously though, I've seen enough musicals to know a good opening number when I hear one.
"Carrying the Banner" is a GOOD one!
LOL
I fully admit to my dorkiness.
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Date: 2006-02-03 03:40 am (UTC)"ducks, please dont hurt me"
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Date: 2006-02-03 05:06 pm (UTC)In 1992, Disney made a melodramatic musical about the David and Goliath story. It's FIRMLY in the Children/Family catagory with a lot of the cheeze that goes with it, but it stands up agaisnt of the musicals in that catagory with good music, loveable characters, and an uber-happy ending. But, the newsboys are so endeering that it's fun to root for them and it's throughly enjoyable.
It would be a fun one to watch with the kids.
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Date: 2006-02-05 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-05 02:36 am (UTC)We Hert Mush.