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VIDEO: Watch Mashup of NEWSIES Cast Dancing to Bruno Mars' 'Uptown Funk'

By: Jul. 08, 2015
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Creative YouTube poster Salliethesald has shared a mashup of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars mega hit song 'Uptown Funk' and a scene from the 1992 cult Disney Film NEWSIES, starring Christian Bale. Check it out below!

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 is inspired by the real-life 'Newsboy Strike of 1899,' when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway newsies on a two-week-long action against Pulitzer, Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers.

The Broadway stage adaptation of the film opened on March 29, 2012 and ran for a total of 1005 performances, attendance of more than 1 million and a gross of over $100M. Featuring a score with music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, with a book by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, NEWSIES played its final performance at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on Sunday, August 24, 2014 prior to launching a national tour that October.







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