Newsies catches Broadway’s attention

ArtsBeat reports: New York theater owners have approached Disney Theatrical Productions about mounting the company’s Newsies the Musical on Broadway this season after the new show received strongly positive reviews this week at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Newsies, based on a 1992 Disney film that was inspired by the 1899 New York City newsboys’ strike, would be an unexpected major entry to a Broadway season that has relatively few original musicals set to open.

Newsies also represents the second Disney-developed show to receive attention from Broadway theater owners this year; the other show, Peter and the Starcatcher, inspired by Peter Pan, is widely expected to open on Broadway in the spring after its critically acclaimed run at New York Theater Workshop last season.

Executives from the Nederlander Organization and Jujamcyn Theaters, two of Broadway’s major chains, have reached out to Disney to talk about opening Newsies in one of their houses, according to the people familiar with the talks, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge private business discussions.

Disney executives appear open to the idea of a Broadway run, these people said, but are at this point still planning to release the title for licensing as originally planned. A spokesman for Disney Theatricals declined to comment yesterday about the overtures from the theater owners.

It is not clear if the star of Newsies, Jeremy Jordan, would be part of a Broadway production. He is committed to the upcoming Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde, which is set to open this year.

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