Dec 3, 2018 - Uncategorized    Comments Off on Thoughts on Northridge High’s “Newsies”

Thoughts on Northridge High’s “Newsies”

  1.  So much fun!
  2.  Those kids were all in.  I did love my small-town high school, but it had neither the numbers nor the priorities to make something like that happen.
  3.  I have awesome in-laws, which hey! I already knew.
  4.  I did NOT know that in the Broadway version, the reporter is a)female and b)Pulitzer’s daughter.  That was a little weird.
  5.  Also less believable, but possibly more fun for a high school crowd?
  6.  Some friends from our neighborhood ALSO had cousins in it.  It’s a small musical world out there.
  7.  My 6-year-old son was bored, as I suspected he might be.  His very favorite, most adored cousin was in it, though, so I’m not sure he would have handled being left behind at Grandma’s with his little sister; it’s just that “Newsies” is really not a story geared towards first graders.
  8. He fell asleep in my arms towards the end, which doesn’t happen anymore.  A moment to treasure as he keeps growing up.
  9.  My 12-year-old nailed the “which song will be stuck in our heads as we’re leaving” prediction.  I thought for sure it would be “Carrying the Banner” or “Seize the Day”, but nope.  “King of New York” won out.
  10.  Oh, the energy!  I miss being part of a performance.
  11.  Watching my older daughters and their 10-year-old cousin run around and get autographs from kid after kid was, quite simply, adorable.  And I’ll bet the admiration in their eyes made those high school performers feel about 10 feet tall.
  12.  Totally worth it–even given the overtired drama we were still having tonight.  Go see for yourselves!

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