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[MUSIC - ALAN MENKEN, "OVERTURE"]
We became aware over the years, ever since the movie
just sort of crash-landed at the box office, that a whole
generation had quietly adopted this as their own.
And it was everybody's sort of secret pleasure.
And, at a certain point, that secret pleasure began to
surface, and there was pirated productions of the movie.
And it became apparent that this was going to happen.
And if we weren't going to write it, somebody was going
to write it.
And we should be the ones to do it.
So then Disney came to me and said, look, we're going to do
a stock and amateur version of this.
Just want to let you know that.
You don't have to do anything.
We'll take the songs, and we'll just kind of cobble it
together, because there's a big demand out there.
And I said, no, no, no, no, no.
This is mine.
I want to--
if we're going to do it, I want to do it.
So then they began to take meetings.
Jack and I re-teamed.
And the original writers of the movie began brainstorming
with us about this.
And it was really when Harvey Fierstein said, I'd be
interested in getting involved with this, that that sort of
raised the stakes.
The dance arranger was Mark Hummel, who's fantastic.
Mark just worked on Sister Act with me.
And no, that just comes out of the music.
And obviously it is my music, but I have a great
music team around me.
[MUSIC - NEWSIES COMPANY, "ONCE AND FOR ALL"]
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