Are You a Newsie Yet?
                                                                                               
~You secretly live in fear of your favorite newsie saying he's gay and your life as you know it ending.

~You write out the lyrics to all the songs during your classes and keep them in your notebook, over and over.

~Even when you're not wearing your newsie cap, (the RARE times!) you keep it in sight.

~You have two weeks of snow days and you watch Newsies four times each day.

~You're so repulsed by Crutchy that you come up with a theory about him, just to make him bearable to look at.  (He's on drugs, I swear it's true.)

~You are unable to watch the movie because you fall into a deep and dark depression by the end because you can't come to terms with the fact that it's just a movie.

~You are a character in the movie, but no one else can see you.

~Whenever you see Kevin Tighe in a movie, you scream and cheese it.

~You find yourself quoting the movie in public, and then dissolve into giggles when you realize it.

~You take random songs and rewrite them to be about Newsies.  (It's not as weird as it sounds!)

~You become obsessed with Denton, and it thoroughly grosses you out.  (It happens, ok?)

~You accidently call random people by names of various newsies.

~You learn the handslap routine to King of New York and teach it to your Newsie-obsessed friends.  You are all immensly proud of yourselves.  (I know I am!)

~You and your Newsie-obsessed friends choreograph dances to the songs and frequently perform them.

~You have been known to chase after people screaming "I'll soak ya, ya dirty rotten scabba'!"

~You unconsciously slip into a New York accent at random intervals during the day.

~You find it more natural to answer to your newsie name.

~You notice that Crutchy's ears really stick out.  In fact, you're sure if he only flapped them, he could fly.

~You start seeing Itey everywhere.  It's incessant.

~You sit around and look at maps of New York and find it incredibly entertaining.  (It's one of my favorite pastimes!)

~You totally understand what Medda is saying through that bad "accent".

~The movie plays itself over and over in your brain.

~You can recite the entire movie from memory.

~Your dream is to go to Brooklyn and scream off the Brooklyn Bridge.  (If only...*sigh*)

~You can pick any object in a room and relate it to Newsies in some form or another.

~You think a Newsie-themed birthday party is a really cool idea.

~You were a newsie for Halloween.

~You have a complete set of 'newsie' clothes which you like to put on every time you watch the movie.  You claim it enhances the viewing experience.  (It does!)

~Friends, family, and school begin to fade into the background.  It's no longer just a movie.  The Newsie logo is burned into your corneas.  Newsies is life, nothing else matters...   

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