Anthony Rosenthal To Host YesBroadway's Coverage Of The Newsies Red Carpet

Falsettos star Anthony Rosenthal will host YesBroadway’s coverage on the red carpet for the premiere of the Newsies Movie Event. Join YesBroadway on Facebook Live on Monday, February 13 from 5:00-6:30pm EST as Anthony chats with stars Jeremy Jordan, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and Kara Lindsay, along with writers Alan Menken and Harvey Fierstein and many more Broadway celebrities as they head into the theater for the premiere. Anthony starred in the national tour of Newsies and many of his former castmates are featured in the film, so he’ll also be interviewing several of his friends as they come down the red carpet!

Read more about the movie event, and why you should see it, by clicking here.

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"Anthony Rosenthal makes you question how some child actors can be that precocious and poised..." - (Not The Same Ol' Boring) Top 10 Theater Experiences of 2016

Kid's Night on Broadway: February 28

Kid's Night on Broadway: February 28

Looking for a way to go see a Broadway show as a family on a budget?  On Tuesday, February 28th, Kids Night on Broadway enters its 21st year of providing free tickets to young people under the age of 18 for every full paying adult ticket.

There are several YesBroadway recommended shows participating in Kid's Night, including the front runner for Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen along with The Lion King, Aladdin, Kinky Boots, and Significant Other.

It's a great time to take your kids to see professional theatre and be able to enjoy shows that have sold out audiences and typically high ticket prices. For a list of shows and the discount codes you'll need to use to take advantage of this offer, click below!

Check out our new Kids Zone here.

This Hamilton Fan Loved Moana

This Hamilton Fan Loved Moana

by Matt Speiser

He’s Back.

At 10:35 this morning – the earliest the cineplex would allow – I took my four-year-old son to his first-ever feature: Disney’s Moana. Or as it’s known to those of us in the know – ie, all of America now – the new Lin-Manuel Miranda movie.

I wish I could pretend my kid asked me to take him.

I wish I could tell you I hadn’t been warned it would be a touch terrifying – what with the giant cannibalistic crab, the fire-demon, and the green lady who becomes a mountain.

I wish I could insist this was just me being a great dad.

But the truth is, since the moment I heard that our very own Shakespeare was turning from the afterbirth of a nation to the empire that is The Rock, I knew I’d be using my first-born as an excuse to see it.

Am I glad I did? Damn right.

And not just because of the feminist incarnation of a Disney princess. Or the digitized beachside vistas. Or even the wholesome bonding that seemed to seep from the sticky floors and coat the stale morning-popcorn.

No. I’m grateful instead for the soaring, earwormy loops. The trademark glee of our fearless composer when he pops in on “We Know the Way.” And most of all, for that glorious moment halfway through, when the perfectly titled “You’re Welcome” (see video) unleashes the now familiar, ever delicious blend of theater and hip-hop. It’s then that the words spiral out in syncopated perfection: all million-syllabic rhymes, luxuriant double-meanings, left-turns-when-you-thought-they-were-right. It’s then, right in that instant, that you leap from your seat, grin at your petrified son, and declare, “There!! Did you hear it?! That’s him! Miranda’s done it again!”

So that on the ride home, you’re at it again, clicking “play” on your phone, tapping your foot, and singing along to what sent you to Fandango in the first place.

How does a bastard

Orphan…….