Description

Hold on to your papes and strap on your tap shoes, y'all: The Broadway Babies are about to seize the "Newsies"! We will be discussing the real history behind the story, the X-TREME "Newsies" fandom, and how Disney has a trend of making squeaky-clean musicals. Oh, and how "Something to Believe In" is the weirdest love song we have ever heard. Anyway, tune in for plenty of laughter, unqualified opinions, PAPES, and — of course... — "Santa Fe" as we talk about the 2017 filmed production of "Newsies"!

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Songs

• "Overture" 
• "Seize the Day" (performed by Ben Fankhauser, Jeremy Jordan and Newsboys)
• "Watch What Happens" (by Kara Lindsay)
• "King of New York" (by Newsboys and Kara Lindsay)
• "Santa Fe" (by Jeremy Jordan)
• "Something to Believe In" (by Jeremy Jordan and Kara Lindsay)

(Music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman)

Show Notes

• "Children of the City: At Work and at Play" by David Nasaw is a great book about the actual newspaper boys' strikes in the 1890s that inspired "Newsies"
• A longer explanation of "yellow journalism" and how the World and the Journal presumably helped start a war: 
• Jeremy Jordan being one of the best Tonys ever, so much better than Jack Kelly
• Here's that Channing Tatum literally-gay sailor tap number from "Hail Caesar!" 
• On a final note, Andrew Keenan-Bolger co-created and -directed a really amazing, hilarious web series around five years ago called "Submissions Only" about Broadway actors and auditioners, which either starred or cameoed basically every known Broadway actor, including pre-"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Santino Fontana and Donna-Lynne Champlin.