Well now that Animation April has come to an end, we’ve decided to launch right into MUSICAL MAY! *cue fanfare*! This week we’re revisiting a movie that we’ve mentioned before. But this time, we’re gonna give you the whole scoop. It’s Newsies!

Back in the early 90s, Walt Disney Studios produced one of its most ambitious flops: an original live-action musical movie about the historical newsboy strike of 1899. Newsies featured songs by Alan Menkin (of Broadway and Disney film fame); a cast of well-known actors like Robert Duvall, Ann-Margaret, and Christian Bale; and hundreds of dancing teenagers and young adults, all decked out in turn-of-the-century clothing. After its disastrous showing at the box office, the musical was seemingly forgotten. Except, of course, for the fact that it gained a small-but-mighty cult following.

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