Tag: Newsies

• Papa with his quotes

  These days our two year old has taken to saying, “What you say, papa?” To which I reply: “I say that what you say… is what I say.” Which is, of course, from the iconic ’90s masterpiece Newsies. This is just one of countless examples of me dropping quotes and cultural references my boys (and…

  Mar 10, 2026

  # AAC, IPC, movies, Newsies, quotes

• Top 10 songs from Disney musicals

  A friend of mine recently posted: “Let’s stir up some controversy: What are your thoughts on The Lion King?” I replied that a certain song on that soundtrack was a top-5 Disney song, and it wasn’t “Circle of Life” or “Hakuna Matata”. That inspired me to consider how I would actually rank the best Disney…

  Jul 14, 2020

  # Alan Menken, Coco, Disney, film, lists, movies, music, musicals, Newsies, songwriting, The Lion King, The Muppets, The Princess and the Frog

• Breaking Newsies

  My betrothed and I caught the penultimate performance of Newsies: The Musical in Chicago on Saturday night. We’d been watching prices on StubHub for a while and finally jumped on them Saturday morning for the 8 PM showing. So glad it worked out because I’ve been excited to see it since its announcement years ago.…

  Jan 5, 2015

  # Alan Menken, Disney, film, movies, music, musicals, Newsies, songwriting, theater

• DDC 070-079: Carryin’ the banner

  A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: Extra! Extra! Get your papes heeya, Jack Kelly. We continue along the general theme of writing, books, and cultural institutions with The Newspaper in all its storied, soon-to-be-antiquated glory. While I was disappointed not to find a comprehensive history of that classic 1992 Disney musical/bad-accent-party Newsies,…

  May 21, 2014

  # books, Dewey Decimal Classification, journalism, libraries, Newsies, Teach Me How To Dewey, writing