Jack Feldman - Newsies: The Musical - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Artist: Jack FeldmanComposer: Alan Menken
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1992-03-31
Music Label: Walt Disney Records
Soundtracks:
- Prologue
- Carrying the Banner
- Santa Fe
- My Lovey-Dovey Baby
- Fightin' Irish: Strike Action
- The World I Will Know
- Escape from Snyder
- Seize the Day
- King of New York
- High Times, Hard Times
- Seize the Day (Chorale)
- Santa Fe (Reprise)
- Rooftop
- Once and for All
- The World Will Know (Reprise)
- Carrying the Banner (Finale)
Newsies: The Musical - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Poster
Newsies is Disney's 1992 return to that rarest form of film, the live-action musical. With original music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, the music tells the story of the 1899 New York City newsboy rebellion against newspaper kings William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. The film was dead on arrival and played in some lucky local cinemas for two weeks. This was sad news, considering that it could have been the beginning of a whole new musical generation. The music of Newsies has since gained a following and has a timeless appeal, joining the roots of a great Broadway musical while attempting to fit the songs to their era. Despite the 1990s production, we are expected to believe the songs might have been sung by newsboys in the 1890s. We don't, of course -- the songs are too elaborate and pop driven (it is also likely that a newsboy who was more melodic than a hum or whistle would have been put in his place if the newsies are as rough as this film would have us believe). It works as a timeless piece, though, because it is a mixture of then and now -- while the arrangements are cheerfully old-fashioned, you can almost picture Nsync filling in for the vocalists who are comprised of trained singers and actors, including the great Welsh actor Christian Bale (American Psycho). Bale plays Jack Kelly, the leader of the rebellion, and was confident enough to lend his own vocals. It was a smart move, as he brings the ballad "Santa Fe" to stunning highs. It is not the only high on this album, which is charged with circus level excitement throughout. It is astounding that, in a film consumed with grand musical ambition, not one of the songs was selected for an Academy Award nomination. The film itself is worthy of a second chance. -All Music GuideBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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