On Episode 5 of “Sing It, Sister!” Clare and Ellen and special guest, Margaret Flanagan (!), discuss the 1992 Disney film, Newsies. What’s not to love?! Well, Clare finds some stuff not to love. But overall, a super happy episode about a movie that means a lot to our fam AND can teach kids about labor organizing AND stars Batman!
Show Notes:
- Jack Feldman on Writing Lyrics for Newsiesand "Fansies," from Miaminewtimes.com, January 2015
- Newsies on Broadway did win a LOT of Tonys.
- Roundhouse was totally a thing on Nickelodeon and it featured many of the actors who played newsboys in Google it if you want to learn more/check out a BUNCH of Newsies fan-blogs.
- “I Love “Newsies,” and I Take It Very Seriously,” from the New Yorker, By Hannah Goldfield, June 5, 2012
- It is “even at seventeen.” Also, just Google it, they all agree.
- The Pulitzer Prize “was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.” (Wikipedia)
- “Fake News: An Origin Story.” Hidden Brain podcast, June 25, 2018
- What’s your Newsies name?!
