July 30, 2024 • 58 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Toss Popcorn is a production of iHeartRadio. Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm Sianna Jacole and I'm Leana Holsten, and welcome to
Toss Popcorn, the podcast where two idiots watched every film
on the AFI's one hundred Greatest American Movies of All Time,
the Very Slightly Less Racist tenth Anniversary Edition, and are
now watching movies that sometimes the other person just chose.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
This podcast is a safe printing press for people who
don't know anything about movies. Today, we're watching movies twenty
seventeen The Broadway One. Hi Got.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Tot warning there will be spoilers about this choreographed new film,
recent recent filmed production.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well, well, I'd love to just get into it. I
have many thoughts, but they're all in my notes. So,
oh my god, Okay, oh my god. Let's start with
our predictions. Let's see where we were at. Okay, and
then I'm gonna have to also update. Actually I think
we should do my first, okay, and then I have
to do an addendum to mine as well. Sure, okay,
I just did an addendum to mine, but then I didn't.
(01:37):
Oh my god. Okay, we'll do predictions, We'll do addendums. Addenda,
addende ADENTI all right, let's do it. I'm clicking on yours. Hello, Cna, Leanna.
I am about to watch Newsy's twenty seventeen, the filmed
version of the live Broadway performance. Sure I that am
(02:00):
to see this production again. I saw this in cinemas
in twenty seventeen, and I remember it being the hottest
thing that I had ever seen. I hope it still
lives up to that. I am fresh back from the pharmacy,
I'm very sweaty, and I look forward to continuing to
(02:22):
be so love you by Okay, and now my addendum is,
after finishing the watch, I realized that, you know, Jeremy
Jordan from Smash. We gotta save it for my notes. Great,
(02:43):
we gotta save it for my notes. But if I
had remembered that, I would have said, oh, you might
have maybe a better time than I thought. But now
I'm not so sure. Well, some of us get confused
about when time has passed between a person you saw
the ones who saw them later. You might spend the
whole time going I thought that was the guy from Smash,
(03:04):
but it's someone else. For like so much of the
movie that by the time you find out it really
is him. You're concerned. Oh boy, Leanna, let's do my
prediction for Newsies. Hi, Leanna, it's Sienna.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I'm about to watch Newsy's twenty seventeen question mark.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I have never seen Newsies.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I have not seen the musical, even though I know
it's one of the main ones that drama kids do.
I have not seen the other movie, even though I
know lots of people find it very formative.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But I know this is about newspaper strike. Yeah, in
early nineteen hundreds, probably almost Yeah, mostically.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I know a few of the songs, so it's a musical.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh my god. I don't remember hearing anything in twenty
seventeen about there being a new Newsy's coming out, So
I don't know. I have a lot of questions, but
I think I'm just gonna go along for the ride.
All Right, I'm the King of New y'all. Goodbye? What
the hell? My sister was in this in high school,
(04:14):
but it was after i'd left. Oh, a high school
production of Newsies. Yeah, this is no That is what
Newsy seems like it's made for. From my perspective, Are
you if I were a drama teacher at a high school,
and I didn't have forty elite ballet dancers. Also, I
would never put this on a musical like this is
(04:35):
so cruel because it is just absolutely it is cementing
the fact that there will be no women in your show,
or they all have to play the plucky young boys,
which could work for this since they're like kids. But
you're like, wow, you're really really favoring the four boys
in the drama program. Oh yeah, well, Leona, get me.
(04:56):
Let's keep on, let's keep on moving through. Hey girl,
Hey girl, how's it going. Girl? It's it's finally warm here.
It's been eighty degrees yesterday and today, and it's it's good.
But it is a little too sweaty. But that's okay.
Mainly right now, I've been doing the New York Spelling Bee,
(05:18):
and recently I learned do you are familiar with the
Spelling Bee on the New York Times game? Yes, I've
played it before. Once you get a certain number of points,
you reach the level of genius and they're like, hey,
you did it. You got a lot of points. Good job.
What I learned this week is there's a superior level.
There's an actual top level, which is getting all he
(05:41):
guessed all of the words. Wow. It is called queen Bee.
Did you do it this week? I've gotten it twice
this week. I am two words away from getting it again.
Oh my. Now that being said, this is not to
lessen my accomplishments. This is simply to give the full picture.
I am using the hints feature. Okay, but all that
does well, it gives you hints. But okay, it only
(06:05):
give It's a pre printed it's part. It's part of
the pack. The New York Times itself sends it out.
I don't know. I don't know what to tell you anyway.
Everyone with two more words that start one one starts
with w I and one starts with we. Oh. So
if at any point I say a word and then
(06:26):
I gasp and you hear rapid typing, that's what is
going on on my ead. Yes, And because because of course,
on my end, I have my eyes closed for half
the recording, so it would be all a sonic experience.
When I starting, you close your eyes and I wish
you wouldn't. Ah, hey girl, hey girl, Hey well I
(06:46):
was saying this off mic, and I'll say it again.
I keep getting bit my mosquitoes. I've been saying it
so much it's getting annoying to the people around me.
I'm sure. However, it's one of those things where I'm like,
why is this happening? Somebody please help me. I must
have especially warm and delicious legs for these these I know.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry warm for these scoundrels. Unappealing I am.
(07:10):
I mean yesterday, last two nights ago, I think that
there was just like a couple of mosquitos in my
room because I leave my windows wide open because I
get so hot in here, and there's probably some cracks
in my screen. But I haven't heard any. I haven't
seen any. All I know is I wake up itchy.
So they're getting in. They're getting in somehow, and they're
definitely mosquitos around my home. But I probably got twenty
(07:35):
plus bug bites yesterday. No, and only on the leg,
also some on the arm, also some on the odd
but mainly the legs. It's crazy, I don't because it's
like all night. I think he brought his friends. Yeah,
I have. I do wear bugs bread in the home.
(07:55):
I have started doing so, and I didn't put any
on last night, but I probably should have. I don't know.
I don't know what's going on. So if anybody has
any remedies, I've been waking up very itchy. And also
I just it just feels sort of like I shouldn't
be just letting this happen a bystander to getting Yeah,
I'm blind disease or whatever. I'm being a bystander to
(08:16):
my own devour devoution, devouredness. Yeah wow, what is the
word for that? For my own devouring devouring to my
own devouring? Whoa anyway, Yeah, so I'm gonna pretty much
be complaining a lot probably on this episode. Do you
(08:39):
know those candles that you can burn that are meant
to like dissuade, They're good, They're good. There's just like this.
There's a new brand of mosquito the last few years
in La. The ankle biters. I'm sure people are all
aware of them, but they just they just their whole
thing is that they bite forever, so like they'll just
they can't fly that high, but they'll get whatever they
(08:59):
can and they just keep on biting, so you get
a ton of bites. Do you know who was like that?
Our family dog? Really yeah, stay low. He was scratting
what he could get. He was loaded the ground but quick. Yeah.
And people's ankles were at risks in steel toed shoes,
oh my gosh, and he kept them on and all
(09:20):
of us were like, yeah, that's funny. So that's that's
great stuff, really making a reputation for oneself. And speaking
of making a reputation, I guess yeah, yeah, hey, shall
we move on to the synopsis. I can give a
little synopsis for you. Oh god, my moisturizer would absolutely collaborate.
(09:44):
What that? Yeah? Oh see, I know. Could you please
give us a synopsis for the Broadway musical turned film Newsies, Yeah,
Newsies twenty seventeen. This is a filmed okay, stage musical.
(10:06):
M it's hard to describe, uh, in old timey New
York City. Great, which what is the years? Do you think? Like?
I think the actual historical event was eighteen ninety nine.
Okay that sounds yeah, that sounds about right. Or yeah,
that seems right. Yeah. No, it was giving very like
(10:29):
aughts the as Yeah, yeah, okay, war Yeah, in old
timey pre war New York City. These boys, including main
character Jack Kelly, are trying to sell quote papes, big
(10:49):
newsman Pulitzer makes it harder for these hard boiled young
bucks to make a profit, so they go on strike.
Also along the way, they befriend a girl character who
eventually turns out to be Pulitzer's daughter, and Jack is mad,
(11:11):
but they do end up together. Also, Jack is an
artist question Mark, and he wants to go to Santa fe. Uh.
There are about a million boys on stage at any
given time. There are ups. There are ups and downs
to the union life. I mean, are they tickets? Are
they making a union? I assume they were. Okay, yeah,
(11:32):
I realized at some point I was like, what is
their egg union?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Just by saying so.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Right, Okay, that's right, Okay. There are there are ups
and downs to the union life. But in the end,
the boys win. Yes the end. Yes, boys. It's very
like why Ianna, Oh yeah, they don't know us. I'm
(12:00):
from Brooklyn. I'm gonna start stripe Brooklyn's here we are Brooklyn.
I would love I would love to get into it.
I love to get into it. Girl. Well everyone, now
we are going to move on to our prom notes.
(12:21):
I just read your first one when we talked about
the notes we took while watching the movie. What what
what what have I said? All of them are very Wow,
let's hear some of them. I'm loving your perspective. What
a treat. Oh. The last time I saw this, the
only time I've seen this before, was with a fellow
theater gorl. So both of us were like, do you
(12:47):
know what I mean? Totally sound, carrying across the message
completely and I love hearing from someone else. Sianna, your
first note is Leanna, I'm not sure this counts. Is
when I saw that it was the stage musical, I
was like, Hey, I tried to put the Avengers Infinity
(13:10):
War trailer on our list. The thing about this podcast,
all you have to be is passionate. Anything's a movie
if you can watch it. Yeah, so that was a surprise.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
All right. Oh yeah. I also watched this shortly after
watching the Republican National Convention, and I'd like, I'd like
to hear all about that, and more importantly, i'd like
to know why you were watching the Republican National Convention
at all. Well, not to get too into it, but
we over here in the States, we're pretty afraid that
(13:52):
Trump was going to straight up be like, go kill
everybody because I got shot in the ear. Yeah, you
were kind of I just watched his part for a while.
I ended up I ended up not I ended up
turning it off because it was obviously it was just
making me mad. Can't get it to you too much.
But also I was like, I don't know how long
this is gonna go. It turned out to be the
longest acceptance or like nomination acceptance speech in history. I
(14:15):
believe that that's crazy because speeches in the past were
so long because there was nothing else to do exactly.
I'm like, how can that? How can that be? And
reading a book about Rome right now and the author
keeps being like, guys, this guy's talked for four hours
and we're all like, oh my god. And the author's like, guys,
(14:35):
I know, like girl, and she's like, yeah, I know,
it's crazy. That's so funny. This is that's that's what. Yeah.
So that was kind of the vibe, was like the
anger and thinking about our country or whatever. And then
it was like ny to go from the rn C
to newsies. So many boys just so hardcore, being like
can make a buck out? Here? Are you a theater
(15:01):
kid who wants to try a new type of hat
to see if it's flattering. Boy, if I got the
show for you, we'll be right back. Leanna. Your first
note is the impact Jeremy Jordan and his uneven jaw
(15:22):
has had on impressionable young drama students. I didn't notice
this uneven jaw. What No, I did not notice. It's
the first thing I noticed about him when I first
met him on Smash. Wow, he opens his mouth to
the side. So it's not really worth it's not really
worth getting into too much. But yeah, So I was
(15:44):
watching this and the first thing I saw, I was like,
this person looks really familiar. And then I went, oh,
my gosh, I think it's the guy from Smash. And
then I kept watching it and I was like, I
really think it's the guy from Smash. Uh. But then
I watched for a little longer and I was like,
maybe not, though I can't remember him that well though.
So I looked up Smash and I was like, oh, Okay,
this is a different guy. Yeah, this is a different guy.
(16:05):
So looking at a photo of him in Smash and
him on screen, you were like, this is nothing. Yeah, listener,
he's not wildly disguised. He's simply wearing a NewsCap. Leanna,
you said let's go lesbians when all the boys started dancing.
I was moved to say, let's go lesbians. Oh that's
(16:27):
how I felt. Let's go lesbians, Let's go. And the
thing really for me that this film has is men
doing choreography extremely well. M hm, that's all I need. Really,
I could watch that for years. I genuinely did not know,
(16:48):
did not remember that there were other scenes in this
production when other characters came on. I was like, huh,
who is that? Yeah, Leanna, and you've also said, whose
idea was this music? That's a great question. I'm so curious.
I've not seen the nineteen ninety two film with Christian
Bale because I'm very afraid of him. Okay, people love it,
(17:09):
people want to hear mentioned it. I assancing and music.
I assume it's like the movie musical. Well, so I'd
love to know who originated this concept of it's the
eighteen ninety nine Newsboys strike in New York. But they're
incredible dancers. I love that. But whose idea was that
(17:33):
musicals are odd in that way? Because there are a
number of them that are like, let's take a historical
moment and make it a musical, but not like completely
exploring the historical moment, not like Hamilton level of like
I've read this whole thing and I wanted to. It's
more like that's interesting, that could be a song. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.
(17:54):
Also this thing of adding a historical person in at
some point, like Annie's fdr Oh cameo, and then this
one what's his name? Theodore Roosevelt shows up at the end,
and you're like, Joseph Pulitzer is yeah, yeah, of course,
(18:14):
way through it is wild. It's just a little spy
who wanted that? Cianna, you said, Okay, Nuns, I'm listening.
The beginning of this, I was a little bit like,
I feel like this would really read if I was
musical literate enough that I was really like, yes, I
(18:35):
feel like I'm in the theater, But instead I didn't
feel like I was at theater. I felt like, if
I was at the theater, i'd be way more impressed
by all these spins and jumps because they're live. But
I'm just like, I'm not not impressed. I'm just kind
of taking them for granted. I can feel that because
it's on the screen, huh. And which is strange because
I love like a kung fu movie, but something about
this it just it. I was finding myself just sort
of not being as appreciative as I should. Oh wow.
(18:59):
But then the moments that got me where nuns appeared
and I was like, oh, okay, I'm tuned in. And
then shortly after that, the like benefactor woman shows up
and she sings a song and is like wearing colors
and it's the first time there are any colors in
the show. And I was like, okay, I'm paying attention.
Oh my god, oh my god. Even though I couldn't
really tell you who she is, we have to get
(19:20):
you with klure. Yeah, it's true. It was not that
I was like anti this, like I get, but a
lot of it I was kind of like, yeah, I
get what's going on. Yeah you said it, I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's okay. It felt like it really felt like it
was there for your younger siblings class to be like
(19:45):
you go there he is, there, he is. I didn't
come and see it. I don't think, oh my god,
did I see it? Oh my gosh, I think I did.
That is so bad that I forget My sister was
really good. Who did she play the girl character? Oh?
She did the whole singing with the typewriter thing slay
and that's the only part I remember. And she was amazing.
I think it was okay, Yeah, I think it was
(20:07):
all right. Wow, like it is, think of it. It's
like when high schools do Pippin, which they revamped, which
I did, literally like an acrobatics musical. Yeah, and I'm like, why,
I see what you mean?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
This?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
To non professionals, it's mostly good when it's flips. Yeah,
and you know what, let me let me say this. I,
of course, yes, was a drama kid. I was the
president of the Literal Drama Club. But I had some
perspective on things. I believe that when I went to
theater camp for five weeks in the summer between junior
(20:40):
and senior year of high school, and I overheard a conversation,
let's we don't have time. And I overheard a conversation
on day one of two nerds saying, oh, what's your
favorite musical and the other replying, well, I don't want
to be a stereotype, but I do love rent. I
had the wherewithal to go ugh, okay, yeah, I am
self aware enough to know that we are the most
(21:01):
annoying people on the totally and that most of us
now are bisexual people with boyfriends. Okay, the other most
annoying type of person. I know these things. I know them.
I think that this, this podcast, I would like to
think has at least a little bit of self awareness.
Seems to be the one thing we kind of try
(21:23):
to try to do. But I guess if that's not true.
That's the least self aware thing a person can say
if I find self aware, So that's dangerous territory. Oh
my gosh, Leanna, you said, speaking of you've said, it's
kind of so funny that this is staunchly pro union
content on Disney. Plus, it's a great It's true. The
(21:47):
whole time I was watching it, like loll. You know,
they just fired all their cast members at Disneyland because
they don't want to pay them. What the fuck I
have to I have to triple check that. But they're like,
we're just gonna try not having cast members. People don't
really care. Oh my, people care so much? What the hell? Yeah?
(22:08):
That really got me, Leonna, you said, Oh, the sentence
was so hard for me to perceive. Right now, you said, obvious,
this is sad, but it does lead to Jeremy absolutely
ripping it on Santa Fe. Okay, so Crutchy gets what
does that mean? Eutalized Crutchy And this is not me
(22:31):
being problematic. This is the name of a character in
the show. Crutchy has a bomb leg the column. Crunchy
excuses a crutch It's not my fault. Okay. Crutchy gets
beaten to a pulp by the police who are breaking
isized to. Now at this point in the film, Crutchy
(22:53):
gets Crutchy was brute light. Yeah, and it's very, very
sad obviously, but it's what motivates Jeremy Jordan to then
just rip it on the song Santa Fe, and this production,
I think is what launched him into stardom. Wow. So
(23:14):
him singing Santa Fe is the stuff of legend within
the drama nerd community that is so funny and makes
perfect sense. But while watching that song in particular, I
was like, Uh, this is not working on me, because yeah,
because his face read like he wanted to hit on
(23:35):
something that felt really really relatable, Like if he had
said something that in any way made sense to me,
I think I would have been really moved. But him
being like, I'm going to san I'm like, what are
you talking about? Why that? In both Mowsies and in
(23:56):
Rent there are lots songs about wanting to specifically Santa Fe.
I think it's old musicals or old movies had white
people wanting to move to Mexico. Yeah, and newer musicals
have white people wanting to move to Santa Fe. That Mexico.
I don't know, but it's the same thing. And if
(24:18):
it hits you at the right period of development, sure
that's that's uh etched on your memory forever. Ye. Hitting
that final note in Santa Fe, you have to admit
that was impressive. It was impressive, But literally that final note,
I was like, I felt like, Ah, it's too bad
he's saying the word Santa Fe right now. It felt
(24:41):
like such a missed opportunity for all the emotion he
was bringing. I was like, what are you talking? My god?
And it is such it is such a known thing
that now right now, Jeremy Jordan is in The Great
Gatsby on Broadway and they were doing like TikTok content
to promote it, and it was something, you know, that
thing of like we're girls. Of course we get iced
coffee morning or whatever. He was like, I'm Jeremy Jordan,
(25:02):
of course I blah blah blah. And then the premise
of it was like the film, the person filming was
getting more and more tired of him, and by the
end of the film, I was like, all right, we're done.
I don't want to do this, and he was like,
do you want me to sing Santa Fe? That's funny,
that's fun said Little Easter Egg Leanna. You've said plucky lads,
and very true. These lads are so plucky. There are
(25:24):
hundreds on stage at all times, thousands of newsies. They
are plucky. What I did like is the the energy
of like, hey, my mother and my thought up by
the paper every day. I'm from Brooklyn and I want
to be in Santa Fe. Nice. She's writing it, she's
writing newsies. I'm doing I see why it has to musicals.
(25:48):
You did write motivated boys on and near scaffolding in
newsies equals newsies. That's that was it. Yeah, that was
my experience. Uh no, that's it. And now, because you
know Jesus Christ Superstar also has boys on scaffolding, Yeah,
it does. How do you think about those boys on
(26:11):
scaffolding versus these boys on scaffolding. First of all, i'd
call them men the Pharisees. Yeah, I'd call them men. Uh.
And second of all, well, I guess the difference is
that I cared about what they were saying about, which
is funny because I'm an American studies major. Like the
(26:31):
Santa Fe thing, I get what they're doing. They're talking
about going west, They're talking about his dreams, Like I
understand the meaning of the West. That's all we studied
when I was in college. But even so, I'm like, eh,
it's tired. Meanwhile, a musical about the Bible, I'm like,
this is the most never been I will say that.
Newsy's the reason I was And I wasn't like, oh
(26:53):
this sucks. I just was kind of like, yeah, okay,
it's it's sort of a run of the mill musical.
Because it was making me appreciate. I had a where
I was like, it made me understand why, for example,
west Side's story is thought of a so baller because
it is extremely interesting sonically. I was like this, what yeah, no, yeah, yeah,
(27:17):
I've just never it's so rare for you to perceive sound.
I know, I know, Leanna, you said, you said, I
love this audience that will applaud anything, and they are right, Lol,
they are right to do. So. Yeah, they did only
laugh like three times. I noticed that, did you did
you hear them not really snickering. I think it was
(27:40):
a horny audience more than it was a relaxed audience.
You know, when you're I love that you had utter
awareness of that immediately. Yeah. I will just tell they
make it very clear throughout the filmed production that it's
a filmed live show, so they'll do like cuts to
the audience every now and again, and when it opens,
(28:01):
you hear the applause. Yeah. They don't try to make
it seem like it's just a movie except for some
weird creative choices that they would do later in it.
And you can literally just tell from the way people
are applauding the overture that is still a horny crowd,
that they are horny, that is still sing it. You
(28:22):
really can sense it. So I think they were, like,
you know, when you're I feel like, when you're horny,
you're not necessarily laughing, Yeah, but you will applaud you're
shuddering your I'll scream. You're heaving. Yeah, you're screaming. They
were heaving books. The audience was heaving books. Yeah, big title,
big time. One time that I noticed them applaud which
(28:44):
I was like, this is twenty seventeen, is when she
said something where she's like, oh, really is it because
I'm a girl, this would be a good time to
shut up, for you to shut up, and everyone was like,
we were so fresh off the back of me too,
and you know what for a woman to be allowed
to speak on stage, it was very slagh at the time.
(29:06):
It's but it was annoying. What's his name from Hamilton said,
we're Leslie Leslie Adam Junior, Immigrants, we get the job done.
Not that part. Oh it's like they said in Hamilton,
immigrants get the job done. Where I five in the
audience is like, oh yaes what he said about Hamilton,
(29:28):
which is that he's like, it's we're lucky for these
things to be quaint. We're lucky for yeah, someday, because
at the time it actually was a big deal, and
it's great that that represents the progress that later makes
it like quaint. Yeah, so that's good. But while you
were in twenty twenty four, it felt like, well, and
seeing it in twenty seventeen, I was rolling my eyes
at the girl character almost constantly. Yeah, well that's how
(29:50):
they fight. It is the love in my heart for her.
Unfortunately she Yeah, I felt the same way. I didn't really.
I think the actress was talented. I think the character sucks. Yeah,
it's very very very basic. Yeah, sort of girl character
one oh one, yeah, no, there's no and then to
shut up. Yeah, because she's a feminist, and that's how
they the only way they try to show. Yeah, they're like,
(30:12):
we won't add any depth to her character, but she'll
acknowledge the fact that it sucks to be a girl. Yeah. Yeah,
ooh Sienna, oh yes. At one point I wrote in
my notes, just what I would give to see you
do an impression of the Newsy's choreography, And you've written
(30:32):
enough stepping and standing. I want to see a giant
human pyramid. I'm loving your vision. Oh, I would love
I want to see the Newsy's choreography punched up by
Sienna Jacob their Big Number. I think again, it would
have read a lot if I was in the theater,
because it's all live and they really achieved that, like
they did it. But I love the flips. I'll tell
(30:55):
you that. Whenever they flipped over a chair, I liked it.
Really exciting stuff. But I thought, I want to see
more height. They've done enough, And they were doing a
lot of sort of just like staring off and putting
their hands uh huh, staring off and being angry in
the distance, putting a fist up and then they'd be
(31:16):
like stomp, yeah, stop yeah, and then but then, you know,
I was kind of like they should be climbing on
top of each other, making super people. There should be
three of them at a time. Go, we're like, whoa, whoa.
Two kids in a trench coat. Two kids in a
trench coat. They try reading a newspaper, they try selling
newspapers that way. Yeah, we wanted a circus egg. Yes,
(31:38):
I think it would be a good time. There's just
not that much else going on. They got to really
really punch that up because there's like literally no color,
there's no women like you gotta at least make these
boys fall from great heights, perform dangerous feet. Yeah, I
want to see cliff diving in Newsy's Let's go, even
(31:59):
if we ain't got actual sponsors. We're an ad break
just by saying so, he will be right back. Let's see,
let's see, let's see, Leanna, you said, lighten up, no
(32:21):
one died me at work. Hey, honestly, that is true
in a lot of like corporate spaces, though It's like, guys,
it's just not big that big of a deal. No
one died. It was kind of an insane thing for
him to say in that context, though, because like people,
people got nearly beat brutalized. Yeah, yeah, Crutchy got Crutchy
(32:43):
was brutalized. Crutchy was brutalized. You said, Leonna, I wish
there was a Greek chorus of newsies following me around.
Oh my god, I love that. Hey, I want it,
you know how instead of I would want it instead
of like an angel on one shoulder and a death
(33:05):
on the other, I would want there to be a
hundred tiny yoozies doing choreography around my head. Hilp. It's like, yeah,
should I get a cheese toasty Brooklyn here? I love that.
(33:26):
I think that could be really useful. Smile that spreads
like butter. I think that would be really a lady's
head they're so driven, they're so determined. These boys are
boundless energy. Where do they They had to dig deep
and it was impressive. I think that's really the thing.
It's a long long time of watching men be good
(33:47):
at their jobs. Crutchy was brutalized. It's just that Bilbo
Baggins ask guy. It was hard to put up with him. Okay, okay,
(34:12):
you said, finally it's over. I mean, uh, that was great. No,
that's fair enough. I really only remembered four songs from
this yeah, and then there were so many other ones,
and I was like, what the fuck? What the Yeah.
It was unfortunately one of the experience where whenever I
(34:32):
would pause it, I'd be like, oh my god, there's
so much less. Yeah. I also was like, man, this
is still going. I guess musicals survive. They thrive on
the fact that you can't pause them. And look at
how much that's true. Yeah, all right, Leanna, I'm going
to read some of your final notes here. You've said,
big stick, diplome, big stick, diplomacy, Girl, summer and thank you, Yes,
(34:57):
Teddy slagh Teddy comes in and slays. You've said this
guy playing Teddy Roosevelt is slaying he's doing a Tom
Hanks impression, but he's slaying. I didn't notice that that
is really funny. The whole time I was like, what, what
does he sound exactly like? And then I realized it
was Woody from Toy Story. Leanna, you said it is
(35:21):
so important to be in a union. True, checkmate Disney.
Plus you said the choreo during these bows, I am
staring open mouthed. And your final note is fun and
your final notes are this is this was created so
(35:43):
high school boys everywhere would get to try wearing a
new fun hat type. And your last note to be clear,
that was not a film, that was a filmed stage play.
But uh, but a film is a filmed play because
you're filming actors playing on a stage. It is sure
(36:04):
it might be a sound entirely different, entirely different, and
we know that after watching so many of these. But
passion will get you everywhere. That's showbiz, baby, Well, Leanna,
shall we move on to our next segment, Yeah, which
(36:25):
of course is badges and trages, where we give badges
for boys doing flips and tradges for tightens of industry,
heightens of industry. Oh, I have a badge for these
boys are just jam packed with energy. They are energetic. Yeah,
the stamina amazing. I think that's a great I agree.
(36:48):
I have a badge for thanks for the grub, sister.
Somebody says that to a nun and I went, I
get why people find this charming girdle fee a badge
for being pro union and anti monopoly. Yeah, it's a
good message. Badge for Muda Fada. Love that. I thought
(37:14):
that I'd surprise my mud if you can find her.
Who asked you? You really committed to that. I love
this some who asked you so memorized a badge for
I love this guy who's always chewing on a cigar.
He's always taking that cigar out of his mouth and
(37:36):
then putting it right back in his mouth for two
hours and doing flips. That's fantastic. I love that. I
have a badge for King of New York was my
favorite number. I really enjoyed it, really fun. I really
enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun stuff. They gave
it their all. They were feeling it. Huh. It starts
(37:58):
it's the opening of act two, and I was like, God,
I can't believe they hadn't done tap dancing before right now,
that is crazy, but I'm glad that they only use
it in one number. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Besides that,
it was all spins and kicks, spins and kicks, big jumps.
A badge for this lighting queue that made the boys
(38:21):
look like they were in Sepia tone. At the end
of one number, the light changes and you're like, oh
my god, it's the boys. It's the eighteen ninety nine
News Boys. Oh my gosh. Uh my final badge is
for I don't remember who said this line or what
it meant, but I think it was just a really
funny line delivery where they said it might have been
Jeremy Jordan. There ain't a person in this room that
(38:44):
don't know you stink. Oh yeah, that's Jeremy Jordan to
Joseph Pulitzer. I thought so, and then Joseph Pulitzer goes,
you think I care? The line delivery is really funny,
you stink. A badge for the set design. Loved it, versatile, fun, interesting,
keeps you in the world, enjoyable. Yeah. A badge for
(39:07):
the recognition that the police are not here to help us.
The fuzzy, well well executed harmonies. These songs are not
easy to sing, but they made them sound very nice.
There's like a four part harmony in the Watch What
Happens reprise where they're gettinghim back after he's shown them
(39:28):
his political cartoon and everybody's singing different notes. Have been
very hard to do. Oh my god, A badge for
my short king from Brooklyn making the entrance of a
century when Brooklyn shows up and they're like, news, these
need our help today. They really, we're from Brooklyn. We
(39:48):
are Brooklyn. They really zoomed in on that. Man. Oh
he was so small, yeah, and so posted out, so stout.
Oh my, a robust boy. A badge for this working
printing press when they're doing in the number Once and
for All, one of the best numbers in the show,
(40:12):
when they start printing at Pulitzer's house in his basement
on that printing press. It actually runs, and I was like,
oh my god, I love that. And then of course,
just a badge generally for men doing choreography very very well. Yeah,
this is one of the yeah, top one, I think. Really,
(40:32):
what it is is when you grow up a theater girl,
always you are yearning for a man who's good at
theater and Ray, do you encounter it? Oh my god,
that's so true, because the thing is, I mean, I
think everybody would know this, but for our non theater
people out there, I don't know why. I assume you're
(40:52):
all why you don't know this, But a well known
phenomenon in the high school theater world is that there
are more the ratios are off, there are fewer roles
for women, and yet more women tend to want to
tend to be in the drama program. There are like
few men, and there will be like one capable guy
and he'll get all the parts. But basically you don't
(41:16):
have to be as good to get a part as
a boy. It's just like, that's just how it is.
There's more parts for boy life and life you. So
the women, it's it's like the absolute cream of the
crop who gets the leading roles because there's more to
choose from, so anyway, and that just that sticks with
these people for their whole life. Yeah, And I as
somebody who was the dance captain for a musical in college.
(41:41):
Men can't dance, They can't fucking do it. So to
see people ones who can yeah and can do it
so well, yeah, it's like seeing a unicorn. It's like
if I found the Lockness monster personally mm hmm. If
I myself dipped my toe in lockness and Nessie rose
(42:01):
up and did a pirouette. Yeah, well, I was like,
I didn't realize no, not to all my badgies to day. Well,
don't sorry. If you get me, if you wind me up,
I'll sing a full song from Newsies. I'll do it dialectic.
Oh oh, I was. I was come in once and
(42:23):
for all. Sorry, Leonna Tragis, I only have one Okay,
I'll start a trage for the one woman. There was
more than one woman on stage technically, but there's really
just one girl character. Yeah, definitely my one trage that
wraps up kind of my issue with this whole experience
(42:46):
was pretty basic tvh Yeah, as far as musicals go,
it's pretty basic. It's pretty predictable. Mm hmm. There more
than half of it could lift right out. It's pretty remarkable.
I think it should be kind of like a short
film with just four of the songs. Yeah, totally, and
(43:10):
then a thousand exhausted Newsies by the end of it,
because they've had to do probably twenty five minutes straight
of dancing a trage for Jeremy Jordan. Dancing gives me
the dick. I don't like it when he moves his
body really. Yeah, it's unfortunate because he's right next to
incredible dancers. Yeah yeah, yeah, I can hap to dancers.
(43:32):
I guess that can happen, like well, when you're there
for your charm, yeah, and your uneven jaw and you're
really funny. That's so much of what he does. Let's
move his body A trage for I really hate this child.
We have not spoken about the the young child who's
in the production. That kid was a horrible actor. Thank you.
(43:54):
That was crazy, Thank you again. It's Broadway. Like Broadway
kids are a unique kind of evil. They're kind of
the eighth circle of hell, if you ask me. I've
met some of them because they were, of course at
my theater camp in high school, and they're just awful,
and I'm I'm fine with that being on the record.
(44:16):
Trage for oh yes, good, teach the child to objectify women.
From age ten, I have a date. She's a real
plumb and I was like, oh fuck, there are screts
following me everywhere. And then the woman character is like,
that's so funh hah. Yeah, trag for all the songs
that aren't giant group dance numbers kind of suck. They
(44:41):
really they can sort of really suck. Yeah, Pulitzer's song
about the bottom line, Oh my god, I forgot, Like, yeah,
all of those kind of you're meant to forget it immedia. Yeah,
they didn't put that in that song. That's rich is fun,
but it doesn't it's not, I don't. I think they
just were like, we don't have any black people in
(45:01):
the show who sing. Yeah, we have to have at
least one black character who has a solo song. Fucking
Crutchies song from the Refuge after he was brutalized. It's
a shit. I remember just being like, yeah, okay, shut up, Crutchy.
It's really here for the high school boys. And my
(45:22):
final trage is a trage for the girl character's line
at the end, wherever you go, I'm there. I was like, wait,
I thought you wanted a career. YEA thought they were
trying to write you as somebody who wanted a career.
I also thought they had a moment where they were like,
it doesn't matter what happens tomorrow because we already had
our thing. It's all good. Like, that's what I thought
they meant for a second, and I was like, that's
amazing that a show is saying that. But of course
(45:43):
obviously they don't mean that. They're like, no, don't worry,
we'll make it work because it's the most important thing. Yeah,
it was annoying. The compulsory, the compulsory heterosexuality of it
all was very like, blu, Yeah, you're telling me there's
a thousand boys out here and none of them are gay. Yeah,
that was a Juilliard boy here. No, no one gay. One. Thing.
I was thinking, I'm like, this is obviously an old
musical because no one's gay, and that sucks the homo
(46:06):
erraticism between Jack Kelly and Davy and also i'll say it,
Jack Kelly and Crutchy as well. Yeah that's fine, and
none of these boys are kissing each other. Yeah. Right, bs,
that's the end of my trages. Well, shall we move
on to our next segment, which is, of course, how
(46:27):
to pretend you've seen this film this is for you
are just trying to buy a newspaper at a newspaper stand.
You said, I want to support print journalism. Uh, And
there's a newspaper stand on my street near Fairfax, and you, uh,
you're you're walking up there, and uh, Jack Alixer, a Pulitzer.
(46:48):
Pulitzer comes up to you and says, I see you
looking at some newspapers there. You know my great great grandfather.
Uh oh, i'd be the guy. Oh my god did
all that? So which one you gonna choose? Also, by
the way, there's something else I want to tell you about.
I think my great greatrandfather was represented very poorly in
a certain little show that I've watched many times. Just
(47:09):
so I can fight people on it and and be
boring about it. It's it's it's about uh newspaper boys,
eighteen ninety nine. I don't know if you've seen it,
but it doesn't matter, but to tell you all about it.
And in order to press Pulitzer away from printing a
(47:31):
headline at you about this film, We're gonna give you
a few sentences you can say to pretend you've seen
the film Newsies, the filmed version of the live stage production. Oh,
of course I've seen Newsies, Pulitzer. And then I turn
to the audience and I do a big jump, and
(47:52):
I say, Pulitzer may own the world. Body don't own
us anything along and then there's hundreds of young talented
boys join me, and we say, Pulitzer may crack the whip. Buddy,
won't whip us even if we ain't got hats or badges.
We're reg union just by staying so, and the world
(48:15):
will no. Then I go back to my perusing. Yes, Pulitzer,
I have seen Newsies twenty seventeen. This means nothing to
me in any way, but fun fact, Tommy Brocco from
twenty nineteen season of Big Brother Us can be seen
playing the role of spot Conlin. Oh my god, Brooklyn
(48:39):
here was a party of the original cast, the youngest
and buffist and smallest King. He was the short one. Yes,
that's so funny. Okay, so he's on Big Brother King.
That is so funny. Well a little brother if you
have me, Yes, Pulitzer, I've seen Newsy's twenty seventeen. You know,
(49:01):
the son of William Randolph Hurst is a character in
this filmed version of the live stage production. And I'm
very pleased to say that the film Newsy's twenty seventeen,
the film version of the live stage production, is a
far superior piece to the film based off of William
Randolph Hurst, so known as Citizen Kane. Yeah, yeah, you
(49:26):
get just as much. You get just as much history,
to be honest, Yes, Pulitzer, I have seen Newsy's twenty seventeen.
The reason you can so crisply hear the tap dancing
and I'm the King of New York is that they
put microphones on the bottom of all the tables. I
(49:47):
knew it. You knew it. Why I knew that, Why
because they did the same thing for River Dance way
on the stage. Otherwise it sounds so embarrassing. It's the
dinkiest sound. That's so funny. Yeah, it's so unsatisfying if
it's like Yeah, it was always a problem at dance
shows growing up because we would perform on like big stages,
(50:08):
like auditorium stages. The sound wouldn't carry Oh stupid wow, Okay,
great fun fact. Oh Pulitzer, please, of course I've seen
newzy Is twenty seventeen, live film production stage. And what
I would say to you and my call to the universes,
(50:29):
let me go far away somewhere they won't ever find me,
and tomorrow won't remind me of today. Something something I
ain't getting any younger, and I want to start brand new.
I need space and fresh air. Let them laugh in
(50:53):
my face. I don't care, save my place. I'll be yeah.
You know how sometimes he remembers he has a dialect.
H huh. Just be real, He's all I'm asking, not
some painting in my dad, because I'm dead. If I
can't count on you today, I got nothing. If I
(51:19):
got and then I leave, I don't fulfill the ending
of that song, I leave him hanging stand. Uh yes, Pultzer,
I've seen I've seen this filmed Broadway rendition of Newsies.
(51:44):
You've probably heard of the Newsies from nineteen ninety two
that had Christian Bale. That movie was considered a box
office failure at the time, but developed a huge fan
base after being released on home video, which is so
funny because it's definitely all the between girls and gays
who were obsessed with it at the time, which goes
(52:05):
to show that this franchise is formative for those who
love to watch Uh plucky boys bounce around when they're
when they're they are bouncing once and for all. If
they don't mind, their manners will bleed them. That's my
favorite song. It's really good for running. Huh, Once and
(52:29):
for all. We won't carry no band ors that don't
spell freedom, talk about raising this day this time? Might
ever write this time? They union? You know, wait, Once
and for all. Oh to hear a hundred men do
a harmony is really quite something? Well, Leanna, shall we
(52:51):
move on to our next segment? Yes? Our next segment is,
of course, should you watch this or when we tell
you if we think you should watch this film or
if you should do anything else with your time? Leanna?
What do you thing? Hey? Why not? I think you
could watch? Okay, here's what I would say. I think
you could watch the following numbers, which I bet you
could find on YouTube. These are the ones I think
(53:11):
are the most fun and have the best choreography. The
number carrying the Banner, which is when all the newsies
pop out of everywhere and the audience goes wild because
it's basically the opening number, the song the world will know,
the song sees the day where everybody's dancing on newspapers.
I think the solo songs Watch what Happens and Santa
(53:32):
Fe are both fun and performed well. And then the
song Once and for all those are the best numbers.
You only have to watch those. The rest of it again,
lift right out, great, it doesn't matter. Great. What would
you say? I would say that you don't need to
watch this film. I'm sorry, No, that's okay, but I'm
(53:53):
trying to think of a musical you could watch instead. Unfortunately,
I'm gonna always say Jesus Christ Superstar, which has probably
come up a lot of times on this list, but
fortunately I love it. I just love so yeah. What
did you do about this Jesus ma? I mean like
(54:13):
it makes me get up and dance and this one
was fine, Leonna. What would you rate the film Newsies
the Broadway twenty seventeen. I would give Newsies the Live
the filmed version of the live Prestige production three point
five plucky doffs of the flat cap out of five.
(54:40):
All of the choreography very impressive, loved it, loved watching it,
very impressed. Some talent out there. The rest of the
show super boring and dumb. Huh real dumb, stupid, boring bad.
So you know what would you say? Nothing against this
film just didn't pull on my heart or head strings
(55:03):
almost at all. I would give it respectfully zero point
five Newscappy Boys out of five. I again am I
endorse it completely for whoever wants to watch it. I
never want to watch it again, no problem with having
(55:30):
seen it. Ah, that's from boredom's sake. No, I guess
nothing offensive. It's very similar to the Captain America films,
where I think the only thing that holds that I
hold onto and that keeps me in it is just
sheer horniness for some element of the piece. And if
you don't have that, you're gone, You're out totally, You're goner. Well, Leanna,
(55:55):
as Crutchy was brutalized. Crutchy was brutalized. Leanna, thank you
for this. We've not watched, not the nineteen ninety two
version that was formative, but indeed the twenty seventeen version.
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
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(56:43):
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I was saying gargoyle and you were like, it's really
weird how you say it. It's just something about you
being in the same universe as these things, which even
though they're completely common, just like Leanna plus burger is
(57:05):
so funny to me. Or who are those characters Beavis
and butt Heead? Yeah, the fact that you exist in
the same world as Buttthead is unbelievable to me. Me
as well, Honestly, I don't I'm not happy about that. Well, everybody,
(57:26):
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Heart Radio check the iHeartRadio app. Huh because just because
they brand it so hard, they're like Disney's newsies and
(58:10):
you're like, right, this is a fun story about the past,
total story about when the workers triumphed over the mega
conglomerate YEA refusing to give them fair wages or working
and also just the news itself. Anything. It's like, news
is important. It's like okay, so what is your relationship
(58:33):
with sinclairen? Like what is you know what I mean?
It's like hmm yeah it was his name again. Oh sure, sure,
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seventeen The Broadway One. Hi Got.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Tot warning there will be spoilers about this choreographed new film,
recent recent filmed production.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well, well, I'd love to just get into it. I
have many thoughts, but they're all in my notes. So,
oh my god, Okay, oh my god. Let's start with
our predictions. Let's see where we were at. Okay, and
then I'm gonna have to also update. Actually I think
we should do my first, okay, and then I have
to do an addendum to mine as well. Sure, okay,
I just did an addendum to mine, but then I didn't.
(01:37):
Oh my god. Okay, we'll do predictions, We'll do addendums. Addenda,
addende ADENTI all right, let's do it. I'm clicking on yours. Hello, Cna, Leanna.
I am about to watch Newsy's twenty seventeen, the filmed
version of the live Broadway performance. Sure I that am
(02:00):
to see this production again. I saw this in cinemas
in twenty seventeen, and I remember it being the hottest
thing that I had ever seen. I hope it still
lives up to that. I am fresh back from the pharmacy,
I'm very sweaty, and I look forward to continuing to
(02:22):
be so love you by Okay, and now my addendum is,
after finishing the watch, I realized that, you know, Jeremy
Jordan from Smash. We gotta save it for my notes. Great,
(02:43):
we gotta save it for my notes. But if I
had remembered that, I would have said, oh, you might
have maybe a better time than I thought. But now
I'm not so sure. Well, some of us get confused
about when time has passed between a person you saw
the ones who saw them later. You might spend the
whole time going I thought that was the guy from Smash,
(03:04):
but it's someone else. For like so much of the
movie that by the time you find out it really
is him. You're concerned. Oh boy, Leanna, let's do my
prediction for Newsies. Hi, Leanna, it's Sienna.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I'm about to watch Newsy's twenty seventeen question mark.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I have never seen Newsies.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I have not seen the musical, even though I know
it's one of the main ones that drama kids do.
I have not seen the other movie, even though I
know lots of people find it very formative.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But I know this is about newspaper strike. Yeah, in
early nineteen hundreds, probably almost Yeah, mostically.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I know a few of the songs, so it's a musical.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh my god. I don't remember hearing anything in twenty
seventeen about there being a new Newsy's coming out, So
I don't know. I have a lot of questions, but
I think I'm just gonna go along for the ride.
All Right, I'm the King of New y'all. Goodbye? What
the hell? My sister was in this in high school,
(04:14):
but it was after i'd left. Oh, a high school
production of Newsies. Yeah, this is no That is what
Newsy seems like it's made for. From my perspective, Are
you if I were a drama teacher at a high school,
and I didn't have forty elite ballet dancers. Also, I
would never put this on a musical like this is
(04:35):
so cruel because it is just absolutely it is cementing
the fact that there will be no women in your show,
or they all have to play the plucky young boys,
which could work for this since they're like kids. But
you're like, wow, you're really really favoring the four boys
in the drama program. Oh yeah, well, Leona, get me.
(04:56):
Let's keep on, let's keep on moving through. Hey girl,
Hey girl, how's it going. Girl? It's it's finally warm here.
It's been eighty degrees yesterday and today, and it's it's good.
But it is a little too sweaty. But that's okay.
Mainly right now, I've been doing the New York Spelling Bee,
(05:18):
and recently I learned do you are familiar with the
Spelling Bee on the New York Times game? Yes, I've
played it before. Once you get a certain number of points,
you reach the level of genius and they're like, hey,
you did it. You got a lot of points. Good job.
What I learned this week is there's a superior level.
There's an actual top level, which is getting all he
(05:41):
guessed all of the words. Wow. It is called queen Bee.
Did you do it this week? I've gotten it twice
this week. I am two words away from getting it again.
Oh my. Now that being said, this is not to
lessen my accomplishments. This is simply to give the full picture.
I am using the hints feature. Okay, but all that
does well, it gives you hints. But okay, it only
(06:05):
give It's a pre printed it's part. It's part of
the pack. The New York Times itself sends it out.
I don't know. I don't know what to tell you anyway.
Everyone with two more words that start one one starts
with w I and one starts with we. Oh. So
if at any point I say a word and then
(06:26):
I gasp and you hear rapid typing, that's what is
going on on my ead. Yes, And because because of course,
on my end, I have my eyes closed for half
the recording, so it would be all a sonic experience.
When I starting, you close your eyes and I wish
you wouldn't. Ah, hey girl, hey girl, Hey well I
(06:46):
was saying this off mic, and I'll say it again.
I keep getting bit my mosquitoes. I've been saying it
so much it's getting annoying to the people around me.
I'm sure. However, it's one of those things where I'm like,
why is this happening? Somebody please help me. I must
have especially warm and delicious legs for these these I know.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry warm for these scoundrels. Unappealing I am.
(07:10):
I mean yesterday, last two nights ago, I think that
there was just like a couple of mosquitos in my
room because I leave my windows wide open because I
get so hot in here, and there's probably some cracks
in my screen. But I haven't heard any. I haven't
seen any. All I know is I wake up itchy.
So they're getting in. They're getting in somehow, and they're
definitely mosquitos around my home. But I probably got twenty
(07:35):
plus bug bites yesterday. No, and only on the leg,
also some on the arm, also some on the odd
but mainly the legs. It's crazy, I don't because it's
like all night. I think he brought his friends. Yeah,
I have. I do wear bugs bread in the home.
(07:55):
I have started doing so, and I didn't put any
on last night, but I probably should have. I don't know.
I don't know what's going on. So if anybody has
any remedies, I've been waking up very itchy. And also
I just it just feels sort of like I shouldn't
be just letting this happen a bystander to getting Yeah,
I'm blind disease or whatever. I'm being a bystander to
(08:16):
my own devour devoution, devouredness. Yeah wow, what is the
word for that? For my own devouring devouring to my
own devouring? Whoa anyway, Yeah, so I'm gonna pretty much
be complaining a lot probably on this episode. Do you
(08:39):
know those candles that you can burn that are meant
to like dissuade, They're good, They're good. There's just like this.
There's a new brand of mosquito the last few years
in La. The ankle biters. I'm sure people are all
aware of them, but they just they just their whole
thing is that they bite forever, so like they'll just
they can't fly that high, but they'll get whatever they
(08:59):
can and they just keep on biting, so you get
a ton of bites. Do you know who was like that?
Our family dog? Really yeah, stay low. He was scratting
what he could get. He was loaded the ground but quick. Yeah.
And people's ankles were at risks in steel toed shoes,
oh my gosh, and he kept them on and all
(09:20):
of us were like, yeah, that's funny. So that's that's
great stuff, really making a reputation for oneself. And speaking
of making a reputation, I guess yeah, yeah, hey, shall
we move on to the synopsis. I can give a
little synopsis for you. Oh god, my moisturizer would absolutely collaborate.
(09:44):
What that? Yeah? Oh see, I know. Could you please
give us a synopsis for the Broadway musical turned film Newsies, Yeah,
Newsies twenty seventeen. This is a filmed okay, stage musical.
(10:06):
M it's hard to describe, uh, in old timey New
York City. Great, which what is the years? Do you think? Like?
I think the actual historical event was eighteen ninety nine.
Okay that sounds yeah, that sounds about right. Or yeah,
that seems right. Yeah. No, it was giving very like
(10:29):
aughts the as Yeah, yeah, okay, war Yeah, in old
timey pre war New York City. These boys, including main
character Jack Kelly, are trying to sell quote papes, big
(10:49):
newsman Pulitzer makes it harder for these hard boiled young
bucks to make a profit, so they go on strike.
Also along the way, they befriend a girl character who
eventually turns out to be Pulitzer's daughter, and Jack is mad,
(11:11):
but they do end up together. Also, Jack is an
artist question Mark, and he wants to go to Santa fe. Uh.
There are about a million boys on stage at any
given time. There are ups. There are ups and downs
to the union life. I mean, are they tickets? Are
they making a union? I assume they were. Okay, yeah,
(11:32):
I realized at some point I was like, what is
their egg union?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Just by saying so.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Right, Okay, that's right, Okay. There are there are ups
and downs to the union life. But in the end,
the boys win. Yes the end. Yes, boys. It's very
like why Ianna, Oh yeah, they don't know us. I'm
(12:00):
from Brooklyn. I'm gonna start stripe Brooklyn's here we are Brooklyn.
I would love I would love to get into it.
I love to get into it. Girl. Well everyone, now
we are going to move on to our prom notes.
(12:21):
I just read your first one when we talked about
the notes we took while watching the movie. What what
what what have I said? All of them are very Wow,
let's hear some of them. I'm loving your perspective. What
a treat. Oh. The last time I saw this, the
only time I've seen this before, was with a fellow
theater gorl. So both of us were like, do you
(12:47):
know what I mean? Totally sound, carrying across the message
completely and I love hearing from someone else. Sianna, your
first note is Leanna, I'm not sure this counts. Is
when I saw that it was the stage musical, I
was like, Hey, I tried to put the Avengers Infinity
(13:10):
War trailer on our list. The thing about this podcast,
all you have to be is passionate. Anything's a movie
if you can watch it. Yeah, so that was a surprise.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
All right. Oh yeah. I also watched this shortly after
watching the Republican National Convention, and I'd like, I'd like
to hear all about that, and more importantly, i'd like
to know why you were watching the Republican National Convention
at all. Well, not to get too into it, but
we over here in the States, we're pretty afraid that
(13:52):
Trump was going to straight up be like, go kill
everybody because I got shot in the ear. Yeah, you
were kind of I just watched his part for a while.
I ended up I ended up not I ended up
turning it off because it was obviously it was just
making me mad. Can't get it to you too much.
But also I was like, I don't know how long
this is gonna go. It turned out to be the
longest acceptance or like nomination acceptance speech in history. I
(14:15):
believe that that's crazy because speeches in the past were
so long because there was nothing else to do exactly.
I'm like, how can that? How can that be? And
reading a book about Rome right now and the author
keeps being like, guys, this guy's talked for four hours
and we're all like, oh my god. And the author's like, guys,
(14:35):
I know, like girl, and she's like, yeah, I know,
it's crazy. That's so funny. This is that's that's what. Yeah.
So that was kind of the vibe, was like the
anger and thinking about our country or whatever. And then
it was like ny to go from the rn C
to newsies. So many boys just so hardcore, being like
can make a buck out? Here? Are you a theater
(15:01):
kid who wants to try a new type of hat
to see if it's flattering. Boy, if I got the
show for you, we'll be right back. Leanna. Your first
note is the impact Jeremy Jordan and his uneven jaw
(15:22):
has had on impressionable young drama students. I didn't notice
this uneven jaw. What No, I did not notice. It's
the first thing I noticed about him when I first
met him on Smash. Wow, he opens his mouth to
the side. So it's not really worth it's not really
worth getting into too much. But yeah, So I was
(15:44):
watching this and the first thing I saw, I was like,
this person looks really familiar. And then I went, oh,
my gosh, I think it's the guy from Smash. And
then I kept watching it and I was like, I
really think it's the guy from Smash. Uh. But then
I watched for a little longer and I was like,
maybe not, though I can't remember him that well though.
So I looked up Smash and I was like, oh, Okay,
this is a different guy. Yeah, this is a different guy.
(16:05):
So looking at a photo of him in Smash and
him on screen, you were like, this is nothing. Yeah, listener,
he's not wildly disguised. He's simply wearing a NewsCap. Leanna,
you said let's go lesbians when all the boys started dancing.
I was moved to say, let's go lesbians. Oh that's
(16:27):
how I felt. Let's go lesbians, Let's go. And the
thing really for me that this film has is men
doing choreography extremely well. M hm, that's all I need. Really,
I could watch that for years. I genuinely did not know,
(16:48):
did not remember that there were other scenes in this
production when other characters came on. I was like, huh,
who is that? Yeah, Leanna, and you've also said, whose
idea was this music? That's a great question. I'm so curious.
I've not seen the nineteen ninety two film with Christian
Bale because I'm very afraid of him. Okay, people love it,
(17:09):
people want to hear mentioned it. I assancing and music.
I assume it's like the movie musical. Well, so I'd
love to know who originated this concept of it's the
eighteen ninety nine Newsboys strike in New York. But they're
incredible dancers. I love that. But whose idea was that
(17:33):
musicals are odd in that way? Because there are a
number of them that are like, let's take a historical
moment and make it a musical, but not like completely
exploring the historical moment, not like Hamilton level of like
I've read this whole thing and I wanted to. It's
more like that's interesting, that could be a song. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.
(17:54):
Also this thing of adding a historical person in at
some point, like Annie's fdr Oh cameo, and then this
one what's his name? Theodore Roosevelt shows up at the end,
and you're like, Joseph Pulitzer is yeah, yeah, of course,
(18:14):
way through it is wild. It's just a little spy
who wanted that? Cianna, you said, Okay, Nuns, I'm listening.
The beginning of this, I was a little bit like,
I feel like this would really read if I was
musical literate enough that I was really like, yes, I
(18:35):
feel like I'm in the theater, But instead I didn't
feel like I was at theater. I felt like, if
I was at the theater, i'd be way more impressed
by all these spins and jumps because they're live. But
I'm just like, I'm not not impressed. I'm just kind
of taking them for granted. I can feel that because
it's on the screen, huh. And which is strange because
I love like a kung fu movie, but something about
this it just it. I was finding myself just sort
of not being as appreciative as I should. Oh wow.
(18:59):
But then the moments that got me where nuns appeared
and I was like, oh, okay, I'm tuned in. And
then shortly after that, the like benefactor woman shows up
and she sings a song and is like wearing colors
and it's the first time there are any colors in
the show. And I was like, okay, I'm paying attention.
Oh my god, oh my god. Even though I couldn't
really tell you who she is, we have to get
(19:20):
you with klure. Yeah, it's true. It was not that
I was like anti this, like I get, but a
lot of it I was kind of like, yeah, I
get what's going on. Yeah you said it, I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's okay. It felt like it really felt like it
was there for your younger siblings class to be like
(19:45):
you go there he is, there, he is. I didn't
come and see it. I don't think, oh my god,
did I see it? Oh my gosh, I think I did.
That is so bad that I forget My sister was
really good. Who did she play the girl character? Oh?
She did the whole singing with the typewriter thing slay
and that's the only part I remember. And she was amazing.
I think it was okay, Yeah, I think it was
(20:07):
all right. Wow, like it is, think of it. It's
like when high schools do Pippin, which they revamped, which
I did, literally like an acrobatics musical. Yeah, and I'm like, why,
I see what you mean?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
This?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
To non professionals, it's mostly good when it's flips. Yeah,
and you know what, let me let me say this. I,
of course, yes, was a drama kid. I was the
president of the Literal Drama Club. But I had some
perspective on things. I believe that when I went to
theater camp for five weeks in the summer between junior
(20:40):
and senior year of high school, and I overheard a conversation,
let's we don't have time. And I overheard a conversation
on day one of two nerds saying, oh, what's your
favorite musical and the other replying, well, I don't want
to be a stereotype, but I do love rent. I
had the wherewithal to go ugh, okay, yeah, I am
self aware enough to know that we are the most
(21:01):
annoying people on the totally and that most of us
now are bisexual people with boyfriends. Okay, the other most
annoying type of person. I know these things. I know them.
I think that this, this podcast, I would like to
think has at least a little bit of self awareness.
Seems to be the one thing we kind of try
(21:23):
to try to do. But I guess if that's not true.
That's the least self aware thing a person can say
if I find self aware, So that's dangerous territory. Oh
my gosh, Leanna, you said, speaking of you've said, it's
kind of so funny that this is staunchly pro union
content on Disney. Plus, it's a great It's true. The
(21:47):
whole time I was watching it, like loll. You know,
they just fired all their cast members at Disneyland because
they don't want to pay them. What the fuck I
have to I have to triple check that. But they're like,
we're just gonna try not having cast members. People don't
really care. Oh my, people care so much? What the hell? Yeah?
(22:08):
That really got me, Leonna, you said, Oh, the sentence
was so hard for me to perceive. Right now, you said, obvious,
this is sad, but it does lead to Jeremy absolutely
ripping it on Santa Fe. Okay, so Crutchy gets what
does that mean? Eutalized Crutchy And this is not me
(22:31):
being problematic. This is the name of a character in
the show. Crutchy has a bomb leg the column. Crunchy
excuses a crutch It's not my fault. Okay. Crutchy gets
beaten to a pulp by the police who are breaking
isized to. Now at this point in the film, Crutchy
(22:53):
gets Crutchy was brute light. Yeah, and it's very, very
sad obviously, but it's what motivates Jeremy Jordan to then
just rip it on the song Santa Fe, and this production,
I think is what launched him into stardom. Wow. So
(23:14):
him singing Santa Fe is the stuff of legend within
the drama nerd community that is so funny and makes
perfect sense. But while watching that song in particular, I
was like, Uh, this is not working on me, because yeah,
because his face read like he wanted to hit on
(23:35):
something that felt really really relatable, Like if he had
said something that in any way made sense to me,
I think I would have been really moved. But him
being like, I'm going to san I'm like, what are
you talking about? Why that? In both Mowsies and in
(23:56):
Rent there are lots songs about wanting to specifically Santa Fe.
I think it's old musicals or old movies had white
people wanting to move to Mexico. Yeah, and newer musicals
have white people wanting to move to Santa Fe. That Mexico.
I don't know, but it's the same thing. And if
(24:18):
it hits you at the right period of development, sure
that's that's uh etched on your memory forever. Ye. Hitting
that final note in Santa Fe, you have to admit
that was impressive. It was impressive, But literally that final note,
I was like, I felt like, Ah, it's too bad
he's saying the word Santa Fe right now. It felt
(24:41):
like such a missed opportunity for all the emotion he
was bringing. I was like, what are you talking? My god?
And it is such it is such a known thing
that now right now, Jeremy Jordan is in The Great
Gatsby on Broadway and they were doing like TikTok content
to promote it, and it was something, you know, that
thing of like we're girls. Of course we get iced
coffee morning or whatever. He was like, I'm Jeremy Jordan,
(25:02):
of course I blah blah blah. And then the premise
of it was like the film, the person filming was
getting more and more tired of him, and by the
end of the film, I was like, all right, we're done.
I don't want to do this, and he was like,
do you want me to sing Santa Fe? That's funny,
that's fun said Little Easter Egg Leanna. You've said plucky lads,
and very true. These lads are so plucky. There are
(25:24):
hundreds on stage at all times, thousands of newsies. They
are plucky. What I did like is the the energy
of like, hey, my mother and my thought up by
the paper every day. I'm from Brooklyn and I want
to be in Santa Fe. Nice. She's writing it, she's
writing newsies. I'm doing I see why it has to musicals.
(25:48):
You did write motivated boys on and near scaffolding in
newsies equals newsies. That's that was it. Yeah, that was
my experience. Uh no, that's it. And now, because you
know Jesus Christ Superstar also has boys on scaffolding, Yeah,
it does. How do you think about those boys on
(26:11):
scaffolding versus these boys on scaffolding. First of all, i'd
call them men the Pharisees. Yeah, I'd call them men. Uh.
And second of all, well, I guess the difference is
that I cared about what they were saying about, which
is funny because I'm an American studies major. Like the
(26:31):
Santa Fe thing, I get what they're doing. They're talking
about going west, They're talking about his dreams, Like I
understand the meaning of the West. That's all we studied
when I was in college. But even so, I'm like, eh,
it's tired. Meanwhile, a musical about the Bible, I'm like,
this is the most never been I will say that.
Newsy's the reason I was And I wasn't like, oh
(26:53):
this sucks. I just was kind of like, yeah, okay,
it's it's sort of a run of the mill musical.
Because it was making me appreciate. I had a where
I was like, it made me understand why, for example,
west Side's story is thought of a so baller because
it is extremely interesting sonically. I was like this, what yeah, no, yeah, yeah,
(27:17):
I've just never it's so rare for you to perceive sound.
I know, I know, Leanna, you said, you said, I
love this audience that will applaud anything, and they are right, Lol,
they are right to do. So. Yeah, they did only
laugh like three times. I noticed that, did you did
you hear them not really snickering. I think it was
(27:40):
a horny audience more than it was a relaxed audience.
You know, when you're I love that you had utter
awareness of that immediately. Yeah. I will just tell they
make it very clear throughout the filmed production that it's
a filmed live show, so they'll do like cuts to
the audience every now and again, and when it opens,
(28:01):
you hear the applause. Yeah. They don't try to make
it seem like it's just a movie except for some
weird creative choices that they would do later in it.
And you can literally just tell from the way people
are applauding the overture that is still a horny crowd,
that they are horny, that is still sing it. You
(28:22):
really can sense it. So I think they were, like,
you know, when you're I feel like, when you're horny,
you're not necessarily laughing, Yeah, but you will applaud you're
shuddering your I'll scream. You're heaving. Yeah, you're screaming. They
were heaving books. The audience was heaving books. Yeah, big title,
big time. One time that I noticed them applaud which
(28:44):
I was like, this is twenty seventeen, is when she
said something where she's like, oh, really is it because
I'm a girl, this would be a good time to
shut up, for you to shut up, and everyone was like,
we were so fresh off the back of me too,
and you know what for a woman to be allowed
to speak on stage, it was very slagh at the time.
(29:06):
It's but it was annoying. What's his name from Hamilton said,
we're Leslie Leslie Adam Junior, Immigrants, we get the job done.
Not that part. Oh it's like they said in Hamilton,
immigrants get the job done. Where I five in the
audience is like, oh yaes what he said about Hamilton,
(29:28):
which is that he's like, it's we're lucky for these
things to be quaint. We're lucky for yeah, someday, because
at the time it actually was a big deal, and
it's great that that represents the progress that later makes
it like quaint. Yeah, so that's good. But while you
were in twenty twenty four, it felt like, well, and
seeing it in twenty seventeen, I was rolling my eyes
at the girl character almost constantly. Yeah, well that's how
(29:50):
they fight. It is the love in my heart for her.
Unfortunately she Yeah, I felt the same way. I didn't really.
I think the actress was talented. I think the character sucks. Yeah,
it's very very very basic. Yeah, sort of girl character
one oh one, yeah, no, there's no and then to
shut up. Yeah, because she's a feminist, and that's how
they the only way they try to show. Yeah, they're like,
(30:12):
we won't add any depth to her character, but she'll
acknowledge the fact that it sucks to be a girl. Yeah. Yeah,
ooh Sienna, oh yes. At one point I wrote in
my notes, just what I would give to see you
do an impression of the Newsy's choreography, And you've written
(30:32):
enough stepping and standing. I want to see a giant
human pyramid. I'm loving your vision. Oh, I would love
I want to see the Newsy's choreography punched up by
Sienna Jacob their Big Number. I think again, it would
have read a lot if I was in the theater,
because it's all live and they really achieved that, like
they did it. But I love the flips. I'll tell
(30:55):
you that. Whenever they flipped over a chair, I liked it.
Really exciting stuff. But I thought, I want to see
more height. They've done enough, And they were doing a
lot of sort of just like staring off and putting
their hands uh huh, staring off and being angry in
the distance, putting a fist up and then they'd be
(31:16):
like stomp, yeah, stop yeah, and then but then, you know,
I was kind of like they should be climbing on
top of each other, making super people. There should be
three of them at a time. Go, we're like, whoa, whoa.
Two kids in a trench coat. Two kids in a
trench coat. They try reading a newspaper, they try selling
newspapers that way. Yeah, we wanted a circus egg. Yes,
(31:38):
I think it would be a good time. There's just
not that much else going on. They got to really
really punch that up because there's like literally no color,
there's no women like you gotta at least make these
boys fall from great heights, perform dangerous feet. Yeah, I
want to see cliff diving in Newsy's Let's go, even
(31:59):
if we ain't got actual sponsors. We're an ad break
just by saying so, he will be right back. Let's see,
let's see, let's see, Leanna, you said, lighten up, no
(32:21):
one died me at work. Hey, honestly, that is true
in a lot of like corporate spaces, though It's like, guys,
it's just not big that big of a deal. No
one died. It was kind of an insane thing for
him to say in that context, though, because like people,
people got nearly beat brutalized. Yeah, yeah, Crutchy got Crutchy
(32:43):
was brutalized. Crutchy was brutalized. You said, Leonna, I wish
there was a Greek chorus of newsies following me around.
Oh my god, I love that. Hey, I want it,
you know how instead of I would want it instead
of like an angel on one shoulder and a death
(33:05):
on the other, I would want there to be a
hundred tiny yoozies doing choreography around my head. Hilp. It's like, yeah,
should I get a cheese toasty Brooklyn here? I love that.
(33:26):
I think that could be really useful. Smile that spreads
like butter. I think that would be really a lady's
head they're so driven, they're so determined. These boys are
boundless energy. Where do they They had to dig deep
and it was impressive. I think that's really the thing.
It's a long long time of watching men be good
(33:47):
at their jobs. Crutchy was brutalized. It's just that Bilbo
Baggins ask guy. It was hard to put up with him. Okay, okay,
(34:12):
you said, finally it's over. I mean, uh, that was great. No,
that's fair enough. I really only remembered four songs from
this yeah, and then there were so many other ones,
and I was like, what the fuck? What the Yeah.
It was unfortunately one of the experience where whenever I
(34:32):
would pause it, I'd be like, oh my god, there's
so much less. Yeah. I also was like, man, this
is still going. I guess musicals survive. They thrive on
the fact that you can't pause them. And look at
how much that's true. Yeah, all right, Leanna, I'm going
to read some of your final notes here. You've said,
big stick, diplome, big stick, diplomacy, Girl, summer and thank you, Yes,
(34:57):
Teddy slagh Teddy comes in and slays. You've said this
guy playing Teddy Roosevelt is slaying he's doing a Tom
Hanks impression, but he's slaying. I didn't notice that that
is really funny. The whole time I was like, what, what
does he sound exactly like? And then I realized it
was Woody from Toy Story. Leanna, you said it is
(35:21):
so important to be in a union. True, checkmate Disney.
Plus you said the choreo during these bows, I am
staring open mouthed. And your final note is fun and
your final notes are this is this was created so
(35:43):
high school boys everywhere would get to try wearing a
new fun hat type. And your last note to be clear,
that was not a film, that was a filmed stage play.
But uh, but a film is a filmed play because
you're filming actors playing on a stage. It is sure
(36:04):
it might be a sound entirely different, entirely different, and
we know that after watching so many of these. But
passion will get you everywhere. That's showbiz, baby, Well, Leanna,
shall we move on to our next segment, Yeah, which
(36:25):
of course is badges and trages, where we give badges
for boys doing flips and tradges for tightens of industry,
heightens of industry. Oh, I have a badge for these
boys are just jam packed with energy. They are energetic. Yeah,
the stamina amazing. I think that's a great I agree.
(36:48):
I have a badge for thanks for the grub, sister.
Somebody says that to a nun and I went, I
get why people find this charming girdle fee a badge
for being pro union and anti monopoly. Yeah, it's a
good message. Badge for Muda Fada. Love that. I thought
(37:14):
that I'd surprise my mud if you can find her.
Who asked you? You really committed to that. I love
this some who asked you so memorized a badge for
I love this guy who's always chewing on a cigar.
He's always taking that cigar out of his mouth and
(37:36):
then putting it right back in his mouth for two
hours and doing flips. That's fantastic. I love that. I
have a badge for King of New York was my
favorite number. I really enjoyed it, really fun. I really
enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun stuff. They gave
it their all. They were feeling it. Huh. It starts
(37:58):
it's the opening of act two, and I was like, God,
I can't believe they hadn't done tap dancing before right now,
that is crazy, but I'm glad that they only use
it in one number. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Besides that,
it was all spins and kicks, spins and kicks, big jumps.
A badge for this lighting queue that made the boys
(38:21):
look like they were in Sepia tone. At the end
of one number, the light changes and you're like, oh
my god, it's the boys. It's the eighteen ninety nine
News Boys. Oh my gosh. Uh my final badge is
for I don't remember who said this line or what
it meant, but I think it was just a really
funny line delivery where they said it might have been
Jeremy Jordan. There ain't a person in this room that
(38:44):
don't know you stink. Oh yeah, that's Jeremy Jordan to
Joseph Pulitzer. I thought so, and then Joseph Pulitzer goes,
you think I care? The line delivery is really funny,
you stink. A badge for the set design. Loved it, versatile, fun, interesting,
keeps you in the world, enjoyable. Yeah. A badge for
(39:07):
the recognition that the police are not here to help us.
The fuzzy, well well executed harmonies. These songs are not
easy to sing, but they made them sound very nice.
There's like a four part harmony in the Watch What
Happens reprise where they're gettinghim back after he's shown them
(39:28):
his political cartoon and everybody's singing different notes. Have been
very hard to do. Oh my god, A badge for
my short king from Brooklyn making the entrance of a
century when Brooklyn shows up and they're like, news, these
need our help today. They really, we're from Brooklyn. We
(39:48):
are Brooklyn. They really zoomed in on that. Man. Oh
he was so small, yeah, and so posted out, so stout.
Oh my, a robust boy. A badge for this working
printing press when they're doing in the number Once and
for All, one of the best numbers in the show,
(40:12):
when they start printing at Pulitzer's house in his basement
on that printing press. It actually runs, and I was like,
oh my god, I love that. And then of course,
just a badge generally for men doing choreography very very well. Yeah,
this is one of the yeah, top one, I think. Really,
(40:32):
what it is is when you grow up a theater girl,
always you are yearning for a man who's good at
theater and Ray, do you encounter it? Oh my god,
that's so true, because the thing is, I mean, I
think everybody would know this, but for our non theater
people out there, I don't know why. I assume you're
(40:52):
all why you don't know this, But a well known
phenomenon in the high school theater world is that there
are more the ratios are off, there are fewer roles
for women, and yet more women tend to want to
tend to be in the drama program. There are like
few men, and there will be like one capable guy
and he'll get all the parts. But basically you don't
(41:16):
have to be as good to get a part as
a boy. It's just like, that's just how it is.
There's more parts for boy life and life you. So
the women, it's it's like the absolute cream of the
crop who gets the leading roles because there's more to
choose from, so anyway, and that just that sticks with
these people for their whole life. Yeah, And I as
somebody who was the dance captain for a musical in college.
(41:41):
Men can't dance, They can't fucking do it. So to
see people ones who can yeah and can do it
so well, yeah, it's like seeing a unicorn. It's like
if I found the Lockness monster personally mm hmm. If
I myself dipped my toe in lockness and Nessie rose
(42:01):
up and did a pirouette. Yeah, well, I was like,
I didn't realize no, not to all my badgies to day. Well,
don't sorry. If you get me, if you wind me up,
I'll sing a full song from Newsies. I'll do it dialectic.
Oh oh, I was. I was come in once and
(42:23):
for all. Sorry, Leonna Tragis, I only have one Okay,
I'll start a trage for the one woman. There was
more than one woman on stage technically, but there's really
just one girl character. Yeah, definitely my one trage that
wraps up kind of my issue with this whole experience
(42:46):
was pretty basic tvh Yeah, as far as musicals go,
it's pretty basic. It's pretty predictable. Mm hmm. There more
than half of it could lift right out. It's pretty remarkable.
I think it should be kind of like a short
film with just four of the songs. Yeah, totally, and
(43:10):
then a thousand exhausted Newsies by the end of it,
because they've had to do probably twenty five minutes straight
of dancing a trage for Jeremy Jordan. Dancing gives me
the dick. I don't like it when he moves his
body really. Yeah, it's unfortunate because he's right next to
incredible dancers. Yeah yeah, yeah, I can hap to dancers.
(43:32):
I guess that can happen, like well, when you're there
for your charm, yeah, and your uneven jaw and you're
really funny. That's so much of what he does. Let's
move his body A trage for I really hate this child.
We have not spoken about the the young child who's
in the production. That kid was a horrible actor. Thank you.
(43:54):
That was crazy, Thank you again. It's Broadway. Like Broadway
kids are a unique kind of evil. They're kind of
the eighth circle of hell, if you ask me. I've
met some of them because they were, of course at
my theater camp in high school, and they're just awful,
and I'm I'm fine with that being on the record.
(44:16):
Trage for oh yes, good, teach the child to objectify women.
From age ten, I have a date. She's a real
plumb and I was like, oh fuck, there are screts
following me everywhere. And then the woman character is like,
that's so funh hah. Yeah, trag for all the songs
that aren't giant group dance numbers kind of suck. They
(44:41):
really they can sort of really suck. Yeah, Pulitzer's song
about the bottom line, Oh my god, I forgot, Like, yeah,
all of those kind of you're meant to forget it immedia. Yeah,
they didn't put that in that song. That's rich is fun,
but it doesn't it's not, I don't. I think they
just were like, we don't have any black people in
(45:01):
the show who sing. Yeah, we have to have at
least one black character who has a solo song. Fucking
Crutchies song from the Refuge after he was brutalized. It's
a shit. I remember just being like, yeah, okay, shut up, Crutchy.
It's really here for the high school boys. And my
(45:22):
final trage is a trage for the girl character's line
at the end, wherever you go, I'm there. I was like, wait,
I thought you wanted a career. YEA thought they were
trying to write you as somebody who wanted a career.
I also thought they had a moment where they were like,
it doesn't matter what happens tomorrow because we already had
our thing. It's all good. Like, that's what I thought
they meant for a second, and I was like, that's
amazing that a show is saying that. But of course
(45:43):
obviously they don't mean that. They're like, no, don't worry,
we'll make it work because it's the most important thing. Yeah,
it was annoying. The compulsory, the compulsory heterosexuality of it
all was very like, blu, Yeah, you're telling me there's
a thousand boys out here and none of them are gay. Yeah,
that was a Juilliard boy here. No, no one gay. One. Thing.
I was thinking, I'm like, this is obviously an old
musical because no one's gay, and that sucks the homo
(46:06):
erraticism between Jack Kelly and Davy and also i'll say it,
Jack Kelly and Crutchy as well. Yeah that's fine, and
none of these boys are kissing each other. Yeah. Right, bs,
that's the end of my trages. Well, shall we move
on to our next segment, which is, of course, how
(46:27):
to pretend you've seen this film this is for you
are just trying to buy a newspaper at a newspaper stand.
You said, I want to support print journalism. Uh, And
there's a newspaper stand on my street near Fairfax, and you, uh,
you're you're walking up there, and uh, Jack Alixer, a Pulitzer.
(46:48):
Pulitzer comes up to you and says, I see you
looking at some newspapers there. You know my great great grandfather.
Uh oh, i'd be the guy. Oh my god did
all that? So which one you gonna choose? Also, by
the way, there's something else I want to tell you about.
I think my great greatrandfather was represented very poorly in
a certain little show that I've watched many times. Just
(47:09):
so I can fight people on it and and be
boring about it. It's it's it's about uh newspaper boys,
eighteen ninety nine. I don't know if you've seen it,
but it doesn't matter, but to tell you all about it.
And in order to press Pulitzer away from printing a
(47:31):
headline at you about this film, We're gonna give you
a few sentences you can say to pretend you've seen
the film Newsies, the filmed version of the live stage production. Oh,
of course I've seen Newsies, Pulitzer. And then I turn
to the audience and I do a big jump, and
(47:52):
I say, Pulitzer may own the world. Body don't own
us anything along and then there's hundreds of young talented
boys join me, and we say, Pulitzer may crack the whip. Buddy,
won't whip us even if we ain't got hats or badges.
We're reg union just by staying so, and the world
(48:15):
will no. Then I go back to my perusing. Yes, Pulitzer,
I have seen Newsies twenty seventeen. This means nothing to
me in any way, but fun fact, Tommy Brocco from
twenty nineteen season of Big Brother Us can be seen
playing the role of spot Conlin. Oh my god, Brooklyn
(48:39):
here was a party of the original cast, the youngest
and buffist and smallest King. He was the short one. Yes,
that's so funny. Okay, so he's on Big Brother King.
That is so funny. Well a little brother if you
have me, Yes, Pulitzer, I've seen Newsy's twenty seventeen. You know,
(49:01):
the son of William Randolph Hurst is a character in
this filmed version of the live stage production. And I'm
very pleased to say that the film Newsy's twenty seventeen,
the film version of the live stage production, is a
far superior piece to the film based off of William
Randolph Hurst, so known as Citizen Kane. Yeah, yeah, you
(49:26):
get just as much. You get just as much history,
to be honest, Yes, Pulitzer, I have seen Newsy's twenty seventeen.
The reason you can so crisply hear the tap dancing
and I'm the King of New York is that they
put microphones on the bottom of all the tables. I
(49:47):
knew it. You knew it. Why I knew that, Why
because they did the same thing for River Dance way
on the stage. Otherwise it sounds so embarrassing. It's the
dinkiest sound. That's so funny. Yeah, it's so unsatisfying if
it's like Yeah, it was always a problem at dance
shows growing up because we would perform on like big stages,
(50:08):
like auditorium stages. The sound wouldn't carry Oh stupid wow, Okay,
great fun fact. Oh Pulitzer, please, of course I've seen
newzy Is twenty seventeen, live film production stage. And what
I would say to you and my call to the universes,
(50:29):
let me go far away somewhere they won't ever find me,
and tomorrow won't remind me of today. Something something I
ain't getting any younger, and I want to start brand new.
I need space and fresh air. Let them laugh in
(50:53):
my face. I don't care, save my place. I'll be yeah.
You know how sometimes he remembers he has a dialect.
H huh. Just be real, He's all I'm asking, not
some painting in my dad, because I'm dead. If I
can't count on you today, I got nothing. If I
(51:19):
got and then I leave, I don't fulfill the ending
of that song, I leave him hanging stand. Uh yes, Pultzer,
I've seen I've seen this filmed Broadway rendition of Newsies.
(51:44):
You've probably heard of the Newsies from nineteen ninety two
that had Christian Bale. That movie was considered a box
office failure at the time, but developed a huge fan
base after being released on home video, which is so
funny because it's definitely all the between girls and gays
who were obsessed with it at the time, which goes
(52:05):
to show that this franchise is formative for those who
love to watch Uh plucky boys bounce around when they're
when they're they are bouncing once and for all. If
they don't mind, their manners will bleed them. That's my
favorite song. It's really good for running. Huh, Once and
(52:29):
for all. We won't carry no band ors that don't
spell freedom, talk about raising this day this time? Might
ever write this time? They union? You know, wait, Once
and for all. Oh to hear a hundred men do
a harmony is really quite something? Well, Leanna, shall we
(52:51):
move on to our next segment? Yes? Our next segment is,
of course, should you watch this or when we tell
you if we think you should watch this film or
if you should do anything else with your time? Leanna?
What do you thing? Hey? Why not? I think you
could watch? Okay, here's what I would say. I think
you could watch the following numbers, which I bet you
could find on YouTube. These are the ones I think
(53:11):
are the most fun and have the best choreography. The
number carrying the Banner, which is when all the newsies
pop out of everywhere and the audience goes wild because
it's basically the opening number, the song the world will know,
the song sees the day where everybody's dancing on newspapers.
I think the solo songs Watch what Happens and Santa
(53:32):
Fe are both fun and performed well. And then the
song Once and for all those are the best numbers.
You only have to watch those. The rest of it again,
lift right out, great, it doesn't matter. Great. What would
you say? I would say that you don't need to
watch this film. I'm sorry, No, that's okay, but I'm
(53:53):
trying to think of a musical you could watch instead. Unfortunately,
I'm gonna always say Jesus Christ Superstar, which has probably
come up a lot of times on this list, but
fortunately I love it. I just love so yeah. What
did you do about this Jesus ma? I mean like
(54:13):
it makes me get up and dance and this one
was fine, Leonna. What would you rate the film Newsies
the Broadway twenty seventeen. I would give Newsies the Live
the filmed version of the live Prestige production three point
five plucky doffs of the flat cap out of five.
(54:40):
All of the choreography very impressive, loved it, loved watching it,
very impressed. Some talent out there. The rest of the
show super boring and dumb. Huh real dumb, stupid, boring bad.
So you know what would you say? Nothing against this
film just didn't pull on my heart or head strings
(55:03):
almost at all. I would give it respectfully zero point
five Newscappy Boys out of five. I again am I
endorse it completely for whoever wants to watch it. I
never want to watch it again, no problem with having
(55:30):
seen it. Ah, that's from boredom's sake. No, I guess
nothing offensive. It's very similar to the Captain America films,
where I think the only thing that holds that I
hold onto and that keeps me in it is just
sheer horniness for some element of the piece. And if
you don't have that, you're gone, You're out totally, You're goner. Well, Leanna,
(55:55):
as Crutchy was brutalized. Crutchy was brutalized. Leanna, thank you
for this. We've not watched, not the nineteen ninety two
version that was formative, but indeed the twenty seventeen version.
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
Toss Popcorn. Yes, we are at Toss Popcorn on Instagram
(56:19):
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when we will be watching a good burger. I love
(56:43):
when Leona says a word burger burger. Oh, It's like
I was saying gargoyle and you were like, it's really
weird how you say it. It's just something about you
being in the same universe as these things, which even
though they're completely common, just like Leanna plus burger is
(57:05):
so funny to me. Or who are those characters Beavis
and butt Heead? Yeah, the fact that you exist in
the same world as Buttthead is unbelievable to me. Me
as well, Honestly, I don't I'm not happy about that. Well, everybody,
(57:26):
thank you so much for listening, enjoy going one watching
the clip once and for all from New Ze's twenty seventeen,
the filmed version of the live stage production that was
originally on Broadway, and We'll see you next week. Thank you,
We love you, Bye bye. You can find us on
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(57:49):
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Heart Radio check the iHeartRadio app. Huh because just because
they brand it so hard, they're like Disney's newsies and
(58:10):
you're like, right, this is a fun story about the past,
total story about when the workers triumphed over the mega
conglomerate YEA refusing to give them fair wages or working
and also just the news itself. Anything. It's like, news
is important. It's like okay, so what is your relationship
(58:33):
with sinclairen? Like what is you know what I mean?
It's like hmm yeah it was his name again. Oh sure, sure,
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