It started on The View then it kept growing. It's going to be a little Jersey show to make it possible to have a script for school to do legal productions of it. Then it was at the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. Then came the Broadway announcement. A limited run at the Nederlander, the little theater that made Rent a national phenomenon. Maybe there's a little Larson magic left in those halls. Then it opened, the soundtrack became a top ten hit on ITunes. Good Morning America covered it. They got a extenstion. Then Nightline did a story. It is growing. Then came the Tony Award nominatons. EIGHT...EIGHT nominations, including Best Musical.If you told me all this was possible back in 1992, after the movie was a flop, aired ONCE on the Disney Channel. It became the movie and soundtrack in my collection that got overplayed. This was met with jokes and being fun of for years.
Now in 2012, as this little musical that was a joke gets bigger and bigger, I must say I am enjoying it.
Newsies is more than a musical to me. It's an inspiration. It's my childhood. It's the link to my innocence. Years have gone by and whenever I pop in the movie or the soundtrack it makes me happy.
When the Broadway news hit last year and they announced the theater, it was almost like a dream come true.That's the theater that reignited my passion for Broadway when I saw Rent there for the first time. (Still the only show I got a chance to see four times.) Now after all these years, my show is there. The show. Newsies the Broadway Musical.
But now reality has set in. I will blast the soundtrack, watch the videos on YouTube and enjoy the ride from afar.
With money the way it is and a wife who "doesn't get it", I will either pray for a Disney miracle or a national tour starting Jeremy Jordan.
Either way, I will as I always have been, continue Carrying The Banner.
