Newsies Director Jeff Calhoun Looks Back on the 'One-Off' Regional Production That Became a Broadway Hit
About the author: Disney's Newsies will close on August 24 after more than 1,000 performances on Broadway. But while "fansies" are distraught by this news, director Jeff Calhoun isn't mourning loss of the hit musical—he's celebrating. The adaptation of the 1992 movie was initially intended to play a limited engagement at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, but after being ext…