DENVER, June 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to popular
demand and record-breaking cinematic screenings in 2017,
"Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical!" makes its way back
to the big screen for a two-day summer encore event. Captured live
at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in September 2016, the event features
Jeremy Jordan, who currently
stars in the television series "Supergirl," reprising his role as
Jack Kelly. In addition to the
feature content, audiences will enjoy behind-the-scenes footage and
interviews with the cast and creators.
Tickets for "Disney's Newsies: The Broadway
Musical!" can be purchased at www.FathomEvents.com and
participating theater box offices.
Fathom Events and Disney Theatrical Productions bring
"Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical!" to more than 600
select movie theaters on Thursday, July
26 at 7:00 p.m. and
Saturday, July 28 at 12:55 p.m. (all local times). For a complete list
of theater locations, visit the Fathom Events website
(theaters and participants are subject to change).
Joining Jordan are original Broadway cast members
Kara Lindsay as Katherine,
Ben Fankhauser as Davey and
Andrew Keenan-Bolger as
Crutchie, and NEWSIES North American Tour stars
Steve Blanchard as Joseph
Pulitzer, Aisha de Haas as
Medda Larkin, and Ethan Steiner as Les.
Since the original Broadway production and its North American
Tour, Disney Theatrical Productions has been committed to bring
live theatre to audiences across the country. To date, there
have been nearly 500 licensed productions of Newsies with
34,150 theatre professionals and students who have engaged with the
title.
"After immense success with our previous screenings, we are
thrilled to bring the 'newsies' back to cinema audiences
nationwide," Fathom Events CEO Ray
Nutt said. "'Fansies of all ages will love seeing this fun
musical up on the big screen with its memorable soundtrack,
incredible cast and unforgettable story."
"We are thrilled that Newsies is returning
to cinemas," said Thomas Schumacher, President &
Producer, Disney Theatrical Productions. "With theatres
and schools across the country now producing their own version of
the title, so many young theatre-makers have become part of
our growing Newsies family. The Fathom
re-release is a chance for them to come together with fans of the
show to see the spectacular original Broadway cast and celebrate
their own connection to this beloved musical."
Set in New York City at the
turn of the century, NEWSIES is the rousing tale of
Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy
and leader of a ragged band of teenaged 'newsies,' who dreams only
of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when
publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution
prices at the newsboys' expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for
and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what's
right.
NEWSIES, the new American musical, features a Tony
Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy
Award®-winner Alan
Menken and lyrics by Jack
Feldman, a book by four-time Tony Award-winner
Harvey Fierstein and is
produced by Disney Theatrical Productions. NEWSIES is
directed by Tony nominee Jeff
Calhoun and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, who won a 2012 Tony
Award for his work on the show. The entire creative team was
reunited to bring the break-out smash musical to audiences across
North America. For artwork/photos related to "Disney's
Newsies: The Broadway Musical!," visit the Fathom Events press
site.
About Fathom Events
Fathom Events is the leading event
cinema distributor with participating theaters in all 100 of the
top Designated Market Areas®, and ranks as one of the
largest overall distributors of content to movie
theaters. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC),
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK) and Regal Entertainment Group
(NYSE: RGC) (known collectively as AC JV, LLC), Fathom Events
offers a variety of one-of-a-kind entertainment events in theaters
such as live performances of the Metropolitan Opera, top stage
productions including Newsies! The Broadway Musical and
George Takei's Allegiance, major
sporting events such as Mayweather vs. McGregor, epic concerts with
artists like Lady Antebellum and Sammy
Hagar, the yearlong TCM Big Screen Classics series,
inspirational events such as Is Genesis History? and IN OUR HANDS:
The Battle for Jerusalem, and
popular anime franchises like Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z. Fathom
Events takes audiences behind the scenes for unique extras
including audience Q&As, backstage footage and interviews with
cast and crew, creating the ultimate VIP experience. Fathom Events'
live digital broadcast network ("DBN") is the largest cinema
broadcast network in North
America, bringing live and pre-recorded events to 917
locations and 1,440 screens in 181 DMAs. For more information,
visit www.fathomevents.com.
About Disney Theatrical Productions
Disney Theatrical
Productions operates under the direction of Thomas Schumacher and is among the world's most
successful commercial theatre enterprises, bringing live
entertainment events to a global annual audience of more than 19
million people in more than 50 countries. Under the Disney
Theatrical Productions banner, the group produces and licenses
Broadway musicals around the world, including Beauty and the
Beast, The Lion King, Elton
John & Tim Rice's
Aida, TARZAN®, Mary Poppins,
a co-production with Cameron
Mackintosh, The Little Mermaid, Peter and the
Starcatcher, Newsies, and Aladdin. Frozen,
based on the Academy Award®-winning film, is slated to open on
Broadway in 2018. Other successful stage musical ventures have
included the Olivier-nominated London hit Shakespeare in Love, stage
productions of Disney's High School Musical, Der Glöckner
Von Notre Dame in Berlin, and
King David in concert. DTP
has collaborated with the country's leading regional theatres to
develop new stage titles including The Jungle Book and
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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