As recently announced by Disney Theatrical Productions, Newsies the Musical will be making the long-awaited leap across the pond with its first professional production in Britain. And now we have an opening date! The musical is based upon the 1992 film, which follows the true story of the Newsboys’ strike of 1899. The musical features
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It looks like London’s West End is quickly becoming the preferred home of Disney musicals, with three productions already running (The Lion King, Frozen and Mary Poppins), plus two more on the way (Beauty and the Beast and Newsies the Musical). But it seems those three is better than two because there are talks of
Disney took quite the risk when they decided to adapt their 1992 film, Newsies for the stage. The original film made only $2.8 million against a $15 million budget and it was even nominated for five Razzie Awards, winning one for Worst Original Song. READ: Disney+ Wraps Production on ‘Chang Can Dunk’ But Disney’s gamble
As reported by us and multiple outlets, Aladdin on Broadway was forced to cancel their September 29th performance due to an unspecified number of COVID-19 cases within their cast and crew. Due to these breakthrough cases, Disney has been forced to cancel all performances from October 1st to October 10th. The show’s next planned performance
Aladdin reopened on September 28th, 2021 after more than a year closed. Unfortunately, just one day later, Disney was forced to cancel the performance due to an unspecified number of cast and crew members testing positive for COVID-19. All tickets for the September 29th performance will be refunded to the original point of purchase. Disney
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is the next film-to-stage adaptation from Disney, and the cast has finally been revealed. The musical will be based on the 1971 film of the same name, which starred Dame Angela Lansbury as Miss Eglantine Price, a witch in training who has to take in three young children fleeing the Blitz of World War
