Disney’s Newsies, Troubadour Wembley Park – Review Round Up
Disney’s Newsies reviews are coming in and it looks like Jack Kelly and his boys are a must-see musical hit at the Troubadour Wembley Park.
Newsies the Musical – Newsies Musical Tickets
Disney’s Newsies the musical is adapted from a less-than-successful movie musical. A new adaptation would find its way to Broadway, be filmed for cinema release and arrive in London in 2022 to critical acclaim. Newsies tickets are now on sale for the Troubadour Wembley, London.
Inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City, Newsies the musical has a book by Harvey Fierstein based on the 1992 Disney musical film screenplay by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman.
Following a brief out of town try out the musical opened on Broadway in 2012, starring Jeremy Jordan, where it sold out its announced limited season. The run was soon extended with the show running more than 1000 performances before embarking on a US tour. The Broadway incarnation of Newsies was directed by Jeff Calhoun with Choreography by Christopher Gattelli.
Newsies opened in London in November 2022 at the Troubadour Wemley Park Theatre. The production Directed and Choreographed by Matt Cole had a cast which included Michael Ahomka-Lindsay as Jack Kelly, Bronté Barbé as Katherine Plumber, Moya Angela as Medda Larkin, Samuel Bailey as Specs, Josh Barnett as Race, Cameron Blakely as Joseph Pulitzer, Jack Bromage as Tommy Boy, Alex Christian as Buttons, Arcangelo Ciulla as Ike, George Crawford as Morris Delancey, Ross Dawes as Snyder, Joshua Denyer as Mush, Ross Dorrington as Splasher, Matthew Duckett as Crutchie, Jacob Fisher as Albert, Jamie Golding as Wiesel, Damon Gould as Finch, Alex James-Hatton as Oscar Delancey, Barry Keenan as Nunzio, Ryan Kopel as Davey, Sion Lloyd as Bunsen, George Michaelides as Romeo, Mukeni Nel as Jo Jo, Joshua Nkemdilim as Elmer, Mark Samaras as Mike, and Matt Trevorrow as Henry.
Newsies won the 2012 Tony Awards for Best Choreography and Best Original Score and the Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Music.
Watch the Newsies Movie Event Trailer
Cast announced for reimagined Newsies at Troubadour Wembley Park
Full casting has been announced for the UK Premiere of Newsies, in a new reimagined production at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.
REVIEW: Newsies Movie Event ✭✭✭✭✭
This will be the first time that Disney has bought one of their live shows to the screen but they have done so in epic style and the result is absolutely exhilarating!
Disney’s Newsies To Hit Cinema Screens At End February 2017
Following it’s Tony Award-winning run on Broadway and a cross country US Tour, the Disney musical Newsies will be presented in cinemas across the UK from Sunday 19 February in the UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Inspired by the real-life ‘Newsboy Strike of 1899,’ Newsies is set in New York City at the turn of the century and tells the tale of newsboy Jack Kelly, a charismatic and rebellious leader of a group of “newsies” who dreams of a life far from the hardship of the streets. When publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack rallies his army of newsies to strike. Newsies is based on the 1992 film that starred Christian Bale, Newsies – The Broadway Musical features a Tony® Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin) … Read more
