The stars of Disney's "Newsies" shared some behind-the-scenes secrets about the 1992 movie.; Songs like "A Day at the Beach" and "The Point of No Return" were cut from the film. Ele Keats' real ...

This “Newsies” gossip is hot off the press. Actress Ele Keats says Disney sent her “painfully mean” reviews of the film after it flopped at the box office.

On Newsies as an Object Lesson in Originality Versus Nostalgia. If 1992’s Newsies were an adaptation of a beloved stage musical, or even a remake of a movie musical from the ’50s or ’60s, I ...

The film inspired the Broadway hit. — -- Monday is the 25th anniversary of “Newsies,” the film that inspired the Tony-award winning musical. With music composed by Alan Menken, the 1997 ...

Disney Theatrical and the Paper Mill Playhouse have pulled off a Pulitzer surprise with a new stage version of the 1992 film flop “Newsies,” which opened last Sunday in Millburn, N.J.Hi… ...

Newsies" was going to be a hit that changed the musical genre. Directed by Kenny Ortega, the Disney movie musical about the newsboys' strike of 1899 starred a young Christian Bale as the suave ...

When the movie tanked, Menken remembers having breakfast with then-Disney film executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. “I asked Jeffrey if we should be doing more to promote the movie,” Menken says.

EXCLUSIVE: Newsies fans have reason for a little Extra! bounce in their step today: The director, composer, lyricist and cast members of the Broadway musical and 1992 movie adaptation have ...

Newsies the Musical isn’t even on Broadway yet, but it’s already the talk of the town. How did a 1992 Disney flop become a phenomenon? In a Daily Beast exclusive, Ramin Setoodeh asked the fans ...

"We have to ask Kenny Ortega if we're doing Newsies, and it's going to be on film," Makowitz said. The Newsies music video, which is out now, encourages people, no matter their political views, to ...

Seeing Justine making reference to what I had long considered, without realizing it, my movie, turned me a bit upside down. As did, ironically, my discovery several years later that “Newsies ...