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Opening night with our new(sie) little friends

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Opening night is always exciting. After weeks of memorizing lines, learning lyrics and practicing choreography, it’s payoff time. A show in front of an appreciative and supportive audience. Thanks to BlackRidge Bank for being our opening night sponsor. One of our favorite parts of the night was meeting some young Newsie fans who could have joined us on stage. They looked great! And we loved seeing them in the audience.

Meet 3-year-old Emmett. If ever there was a Newsie superfan, he’s it. This was his fifth time seeing Newsies. He got hooked after seeing the Broadway musical on Netflix, then attended performances at Chanassen, West Fargo and Fargo North. We were so excited he came to see us! He even had a Newsies themed birthday party. He seemed a little shy when he met our Katherine Plummer, Sophia Klindt.

And he had a nice conversation with his doppelganger Kaden Moszer.

 

It’s nice to know if Kaden isn’t able to take the stage one night for whatever reason, Emmett is there to fill in. Thanks buddy! You are definitely a “King of New York.”

Thanks BlackRidge Bank (and friends in the media)

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Don’t you love our community? To put it simply, we could not put on this show with the incredible support of our Fargo-Moorhead  Community. It’s been a crazy few weeks of rehearsal and parent preview was great (yes, yes, parents might not be the most objective audience, but even some nonparents in the crowd were impressed with the energy and musical chops of the cast and pit orchestra and the great look and feel of the set and production from our tech crew).

Tonight is opening night and we’re both nervous and excited.

Thanks to BlackRidge Bank for being our opening night sponsor. Your support means the world to us and we’ll gladly carry the banner for you!

Speaking of support thanks to our local media for inviting us to appear on the air to promote the show.

Our day started on KVRR Morning News with Emily Welker and Adam Ladwig. Anna Larson as Medda Larkin performed with Bowery Beauties, Josie Cass and Thalia Christenson.

Then we had a nice time visiting with Lisa Budeau and Chris Berg on North Dakota Today. Kaden Moszer (Jack) and Sophia Klindt (Katherine) joined Medda and the beauties.

 

And we ended our media blitz by visiting with Jim Shaw who was filling in for Mike on The Mike McFeely Show on 970WDAY. Not only is Jim a great radio host, he’s a musical theatre dad himself so he knows the ins and outs of putting a production like this together.

 

Thanks to everyone for your support and helping us get the word out! If you don’t have your tickets yet, go online at moorheadschools.org/tix. They’re going fast! See you tonight!

 

 

Attention: Snapchat users

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Extra…Extra…Read All About It….
With the creative help of Jason Malusky, Stagehands has created a NEWSIES Snapchat filter to help promote our show. Our NEWSIES filter goes live on Tuesday at 4:00 and will be available this week on Tuesday-Thursday from 4:00-8:00 and then will be available from 6:00-11:00 for all Friday and Saturday shows and from 1:00-4:00 for all Sunday matinees.
Please use this Snapchat filter to help promote our show!

Newsies: Historical accuracy, feminism and Nerf terror?

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By Laura Jensen, junior, cast member

Day 3 of EM break started kind of slow for many, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun to watch. “What What Happens,” was blocked in the morning. Though I’m not in it, it might be one of my favorite scenes in the show.

Choreography in the show is tries to be historically accurate.

I don’t even love the song that much but the blocking is amazing. I’m not going to spoil anything, but let me just say #feminism. Speaking of feminism, Meleah choreographed “Don’t come knocking/Never planned on you.” I love Meleah’s choreography. It’s historically accurate. “That’s Rich” is the same way. I love it as weird as it may be for my parents. (Hi, Mom).

We even got to do it in our Bowery Beauty heels. They are so cute. That night was the infamous Nerf War. I thing I get a little intense about the Nerf War, which is surprising because I”m a wimp. I’m honestly too wimpy to actually play on the battlefield.The past two years, I’ve guarded the pin and my freshman year I hid int he girls bathroom because I 1) had a really bad headache and 2) I was scared.

The juniors and sophomores lost both games – only because the seniors cheated. but it’s fine I’m over it. The last thing of the night was “Acres of Terror,” but as previously mentioned I’m a wimp. Maybe next year.

Why was the Newsies cast sprinting to the commons?

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By Laura Jensen – Junior, Cast Member

While Day 2 of EM Break for many kids consists of sleeping in until noon, eating junk food, watching Netflix and sleeping some more, we have been hard at work. We’re already to the second act in blocking although it’s pretty rough. To get us all warmed up, Meylar had us play some intense games of Red Ball and Big Booty. That was a trip.

There has been a lot of sitting and waiting for really everyone who isn’t a named Newsie. But we’ve kept busy. I’ve written alumni letters, attempted some AP Calc homework and went through my script. I did get to be on stage a little for “Seize the Day.” I stand on a platform and try not to fall off, but it’s still cool to be a part of the show’s most popular number.

It’s amazing to see everyone scattered around the set, pounding their fists to the infectious resistance Speaking of the set, it’s really coming together. It may be unpainted, but it looks incredible. I can’t wait for the final product.

It was also soup night. While I’m not a big soup person, I love soup night. I get a little scared. All it took was for Meylar to say the word “soup” for all 50 of us to start sprinting down the halls of Moorhead High, racing to the be the first in line for the chicken noodle soup. (Side note: I would suggest having about three more pots of chicken noodle. We ran out within the first ten people.

Also, we should add beer cheese soup. It’s my favorite). I’m pretty sure I haven’t worked that hard for soup all year. So if you want to get me in track, tell it’s soup night. It was a harsh realization that I need to do the “Cupid Shuffle” more.

Finally we had the pool party. It was fun, but a little cold since someone left the door to outside open. It’s fine, not like, it was about 30 degrees outside, just kidding, it was.) The pool party is mostly just us trying to to admit to ourselves that we will probably have to walk in the snow between scenes. Hopefully with shoes this year.

One last note: Tickets are now on sale: go to the Moorhead High Box Office to order.