The EGOT winner got the Razzie for "High Times, Hard Times" from the 1992 movie musical "Newsies." "Newsies" was a box-office flop, but Menken won a Tony for its Broadway adaptation 20 years later.

“Newsies” is based on the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899. The Music Theatre Wichita production runs through Aug. 20. Courtesy photo These newspaper-toting ragamuffins have done it. Pitted against a ...

Jack Feldman has heard from a lot of young men who say the movie “Newsies,” for which he wrote the lyrics, had a big impact on them. Not bad for a flick that initially flopped at the box office. The ...

Extra! Extra! Screen flop reborn as stage triumph! No exaggeration, "Newsies," the musical built on the rich topic of the 1899 New York City newsboys' strike, has enjoyed a miraculous rebirth.

The Tony Award-winning Disney’s “Newsies: The Musical” will be presented by Quad City Music Guild Theater July 5-7 and 11-14 at Prospect Park Auditorium, 1584 34th Ave., Moline. Set in turn-of-the ...

Feet do all the best talking in Arena Stage’s “Newsies.” Oh, there is the regular inventory of other body parts in director Molly Smith’s faithful revival, but the various gestures and vocalizations ...

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Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenaged "newsies." When titans of publishing raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack rallies newsies from across the city to ...

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