Tag: ryan steele

Annie and Newsies, Togetha Foreva?

As I was watching the new production of Annie on Broadway last night (yay!), I kept getting this weird, persistent sense of déjà vu. Scrappy, adorable young ragamuffins trying to survive in the big city? Struggling against an unjust system run by tyrannical adults? Wearing period costumes? Speaking in heavy New Yawk accents? Around the […]

Behind-the-Scenes Video with the Newsies Boys!

Few things excite us more in the Dance Spirit office than Newsies on Broadway. Seriously, we’re obsessed. Which was why our day in Brooklyn shooting four of the Newsies dancers for DS‘s July/August cover story was one of the best days ever! Sure, it was freezing, but the boys found some pretty creative ways to […]

The New Kings of New York

Photo by Deen van Meer Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Newsies is the hottest new musical on Broadway! That’s right: The cult ’90s Disney film, a fictionalized retelling of the 1899 newsboy strike, has landed on the Great White Way. And the pedigreed dancers playing its scruffy, paper-peddling, lovable newsboys are the new kings […]