Notes: Includes Commentary with filmmakers, "Newsies, Newsies, See All About It", "Newsies: The Inside Story", "The Strike! The True Story", Storyboard-To-Scene Comparison - Sequence with Audio Commentary, Sing-Along Feature.
Tracks: 1. Opening Titles/"Prologue"
2. "Carrying The Banner"
3. Headlines
4. Improving The Truth
5. "My Lovey Dovey Baby"
6. "Santa Fe"
7. Strike!/"The World Will Know"
8. Ambassadors
9. "Seize The Day"
10. The Refuge
11. "Seize The Day (Chorale)"
12. "King Of New York"
13. Sarah
14. "High Times, Hard Times"
15. Conspiracy
16. The Power Of The Press
17. "Santa Fe (Reprise)"
18. Loyalty
19. "Once And For All"
20. "The World Will Know (Reprise)"
21. It's Over
22. "Carrying The Banner (Finale)"/End Credits
Tracks: 1. Prologue 2. Carrying the Banner 3. Santa Fe 4. My Lovey-Dovey Baby 5. Fightin' Irish: Strike Action 6. The World Will Know 7. Escape from Snyder 8. Seize the Day 9. King of New York 10. High Times, Hard Times 11. Seize the Day (Chorale) 12. Santa Fe (Reprise) 13. Rooftop 14. Once and for All 15. The World Will Know (Reprise) 16. Carrying the Banner (Finale)
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:48: Amazon.com Editoral Review: Arguably one of the oddest films to emerge from the modern Disney Entertainment empire, this scrappy 1992 live-action musical tells the tale of a turn-of-the-last-century labor uprising among New York City's newsboys (or "Newsies")--an especially ironic topic given the Mouse House's own historical labor relations problems. It was also a valiant attempt to revive the glory days of the Hollywood musical, and Alan Menken (fresh from his triumphs Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid) serves up a rousing retro slate of songs (with lyrics by Jack Feldman) that both evoke the Ragtime-era story and bring a musical revivalist's fervor to the task of reanimating one of filmdom's most endangered genres; a throwback to be sure, but an energetic and infectious one. --Jerry McCulley
