This is definitely NOT political propaganda. NOPE! Absolutely not. I would NEVER be telling you to remember this musical and how what they said years ago still applies to today. This is not a reminder to go out and vote or do research and become educated or remember that we can make a difference.
things i noticed whilst watching newsies live again today
- during seize the day when Jeremy Jordan and Ben Fankhauser run offstage bc they can’t dance
- how during king of new york ben f. is shoved to the back where you cant see him and when you do see him he is very visibly counting along to the music
- SPECS DOES THE WORM ON THE TABLE IN THE BACK NEAR THE END OF KING OF NEW YORK’
- at the end of Watch What Happens (Reprise) when Les says ‘and I gotta date!’ and Davey steals his hat, Jack hits Les with his own hat, Les steals back his hat and promptly hits Jack on the chest with it
- I want to applaud the costume department for giving Katherine’s dress a little hook so she could hook the skirt to her belt for the dance solo
- how Ethan (Les) is also shoved to the back during king of new york
- when Tommy Boy is doing the pirouettes at the end of the song he does the focusing thing where you keep your eyes on one spot as long as you can and then spin your head real quick and get sight of the spot again to avoid getting dizzy and its really cool to watch because you wouldn’t notice unless you knew the trick and the above shot shows that his head is turning much slower than his body
- when jack says ‘keep your shirt on!’ to the kid in front of him just before the world will know and the kid starts pulling at his shirt as if saying something like ‘oh you want me to keep my shirt on, eh? what if I just take it off?’
- the same kid leaping clear to the other side of the stage when Les yells “LET THE MAN WORK IT OUT!”
- at the end of the world will know when they get thrown out of Pulitzer’s office and Davey is lying on the ground holding his hip like an old man
- on a similar note; Les yelling at that guard dude? inspirational? i love one (1) boy??
- at the end, during the Finale, Ben Fankhauser is visibly counting again so that he gets all the moves right
- Les sitting on Katherine’s lap during King of New York and she grabs his hands and shakes them around like you do when teaching a little kid how to do the pattycake rhyme
- when Katherine first walks into Jacobi’s to ask for an interview watch Ben Cook’s eyes bc they are all over her butt and whenever she turns to face his direction his eyes snap up to her’s but when she turns away he almost immediately goes back to staring at her butt
- during Brooklyn’ Here when Spot takes his hat off Romeo looks at him out of the corner of his eye for a second before snapping back forward like he suddenly remembers he’s not supposed to be looking
- at the beginning when Jack asks to be selling partners and Les goes ‘50/50 are you trying to pull something on a little kid” or smthn like that if you see Specs over Jack’s shoulder he’s making the ‘ooooooooooo’ face
- right after Race says ‘can’t you smell smoke?’JoJo ?? takes off his hat and hits Race with it but it isn’t onscreen so all you see is JoJo take off the hat and if you listen carefully there’s a smack and when it pans back out Race rubs his arm and JoJo puts his hat back on
- harmonies? more like I’m dead from the absolute beauty of it
- right after the kid says ‘why do old people talk?’ Elmer looks at Race, realizes he’s not supposed to know Race speaks next, looks at the floor, and looks back at Race when he says ‘to prove they’s still alive’
- Race is a never-ending optimist
- I have a rant later about King of New York don’t let me forget it
- right before Santa Fe when Jack is rolling on the ground you can vaguely see a black bowler hat and he kicks it offstage
- ELMER DANCING ON THE TABLE AT THE END OF KING OF NEW YORK
- ADORABLE
- I LOVE HIM
- anyways
- when Davey says ‘there’s no escaping us pal, we’re inevitable’ he smacks Jack on the butt with the newspaper and Jeremy’s head snapped up so fast
- what self-respecting theatre technician let him take a bucket of water onstage?
- even when sick and having literally thrown up thirty minutes before I can’t not sing/scream “POoR GuY’S hEaD iS sPiNNiNg!”
- poor Jeremy Jordan can’t dance either
- remind me to also post a rant about the color schemes
- when Snyder shows up if you look in the top right corner Race is selling/reading the pape and when he sees Snyder he swiftly walks away (he does not run, running calls attention and that is one thing he doesn’t want at that time)
- Right before watch what happens reprise all the newsies run over the set looking for Jack
- right before once and for all when everyone has candles to show that they’re walking in the dark to get to Pulitzer’s house
- during that’s rich jack sees Katherine and starts waving to her across the theatre but she either doesn’t see him or ignores him (he stands up halfway through the song to grab her attention)
- why in the world is there some Disney smoking commercial that starts this thing?
- sometimes the light shines just right and I usually don’t like blue eyes but then I see Ben Cook’s and DANG
- before Watch What Happens Reprise when Les is talking about a girl and Katherine just stares at Davey the whole time and he looks up and asks “what?’ with his eyes and she replies ‘I don’t know’ with her eyes
- Katherine’s little ‘yeeeah, okee’ after Jack says ‘can’t you see it, in my eyes?’
- how long was Jack’s ‘old man’ in his life? how recent was his death? was he a good dad? I have so many questions
- ‘do you wanna bust up your other leg?!?’ ‘no, I wanna go down.’
- the overacting in that scene kills me every time
- I pulled up newsies in a different tab bc I forgot some stuff I was gonna say abt King of New York and it started playing and it confused the heck out of me bc I could’ve sworn my Spotify wasn’t on
- #LetCrutchieSayFuck2k18
- why is Elmer the only one who puts on more clothes for Act 2
- Davey, babe, who taught you the word ‘hoedown’ (I actually have a hc I’m working on abt this) I’m literally from south and the only time I have ever said hoedown was when I was mocking my fellow southerners or when singing along to an old Hannah Montanna song
- Elmer, Romeo, why do you have a roll of cotton on your hairline like you just got a perm? That thing will not stop the blood, ok, it just makes it look like you left the hair salon early
- Albert, what is with the stick
- ‘Jack don’t run from no fight!’ ‘take it down shortstop, I’m just reportin’ the news’
- the way BTC spreads his legs just before his opening solo
- Davey looks more than confused at ‘erster.’ Les is used to hearing words he doesn’t understand, Davey is his older brother
- Romeo’s sarcastic clap when Race finishes his little solo
- why do everyone’s socks match?
- hey @ Albert and Tommy Boy, what it the purpose of your sticks with rubber stops at the bottom? they’re too short to be walking sticks and also you are a teenager why would you need a walking stick
- SPOON FIGHT!
- how many of them played spoons before they joined the cast?
- why does Jacobi have so many spoons in a box in the dining room
- Davey, why do you yell “katHERINE” during the spoon fight? was she in imminent danger? was she about to get spooned? was a boy trying to spoon out her eyeball?
- ?? Henry’s ?? face during the entire thing
- all the boy’s grabbing their crotches after Katherine picks up her leg as if they didn’t just do something harder than that a few minutes earlier
- the Katherine/Les dance battle
- when all the newsies start in on the dance battle thing? amazing? I love?
- Ben F. breathing v hard after Seize the Day while the kids next to him look barely winded
okay I think that’s all for now I’m sure I’ll come up with more later tho
