I got this notification and literally almost screamed. Thank you so much for watching this, holy shit.

@@falsevillage I’m stupid but who is this person?

​@@Apollo_kid13 he's the guy who's playing piano in the video and wrote the lyrics! He's also really involved with broadway cabarets. He also was just involved with writing the 2022 Tony Awards opening song!

Ahh, didn't realize this was you Benjamin! Not that I'm surprised, it's fantastic!

Same

i think i just got in it because of West Side Story and Mike Faist, but i have almost no access to any musical production in theaters :( i wish i could see every theater production with Mike Faist is in.

@@poppyseed3250 sammeeee, we’ll, I got into musical theater in mid 2021 because of Dear Evan Hansen, and I’m definitely really late lol

@@poppyseed3250 same.

same!

Sameeee

She's real! She deleted her twitter account a while ago but her username was literally what Adam said - fansielizabeth - she's currently a regular youtuber of a small channel!

@@falsevillage Huh that's pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

WSS WAS AMAZING! HE DID FANTASTIC!

Lol the only reason I found out that there was a new WSS was because my friend told me that Mike Faist and Ben Cook were in it and I “fell in love” with Mike Faist (I didn’t actually fall in love with Mike Faist but I fell in love with him non romantically and I can’t believe that his fandom has gotten so big that I have to disclose that, anyways) when Mike Faist was in Dear Evan Hansen and I had already fallen in love with Newsies but after I found out that Mike Faist was in it I fell in with it all over again and in a new way

thanks for watching it!

Nope, that's Kyle Coffman on the poster (his face was morphed to look like Jeremy Jordan , which was the best thing). There's a newspaper prop in newsies used in "king of new york" (it's the one that Katherine brings in and the newsies freak out over), which has a black and white picture of the original broadway cast on it. Mike's in the photo as he's an original broadway cast member and Adam isn't.

I totally get where you're coming from. I'm always a little insecure about my musical theatre knowledge- because everyone in the community has seen or listened to all the damn shows. It's definitely wrong to be afraid that other people in your community might out you as an imposter because you haven't seen something obscure (which is a thought I have bi-monthly). But in the context of this video, it's mostly different. Firstly, they only reference newsies the musical. Secondly, they are just playing to their castmates and their fans. Most of the references are inside jokes about newsies - not even musical theatre references. This particular cabaret was also just for fans to see them in person (I can promise you that anyone outside of that bubble will not understand these jokes - not because of gatekeeping but it’s just them interacting with the crowd), and this is the only performance from that cabaret that do the whole referencing thing - the other performances are actual performances. But I completely understand what you’re saying, gatekeeping and accessibility is a huge problem in theatre and stuff.

I'm kinda confused, is it when people like really niche things that bother you or is it people referencing things that you don't understand that bothers you? It's like if you were complaining about passing a convention for something you're not interested in or watching a film / music award show where you haven't seen any of the films or listened to any of the music. This performance is like a comic con panel except instead of a Q&A they're singing. It isn't made for everyone - just for the people interested in this piece of theater- because people have different tastes??? In art they consume??