Here's my list. If You apply to ANY of these, you may be suffering (well, i would'nt call it exactly SUFFERING...but oh well) from NOS, or Newsies obsession syndrome.
1. you have a Newsies themed birthday party all planned out, even though your next birthday is in 9 months. (no, really!!! I do have one planned!!)
2. You constantly see David Sidoni and Mark David look-alikes. (I SWEAR!!! I saw David Sidoni's long-lost twin brother!!!)
3. You claim Itey follows you around wherever you go. (Yes, ladies and gents, Itey IS my best friend)
4. You scream your head off makig your Mom, Dad, Great Aunt Gertrude, and your cat permanantly (sp?) deaf because you THINK there was a newsies actor on a rerun of Clarissa Explains It All (really!! I did!!!)
5. You FREAK out whenever Ann Margaret is anywhere within seeing or hearing range.
6. When it's movie night at your house, nobody asks you what you want to watch because they already know what your gonna say (my family has SHUNNED MY OPINIONS!!!!)
7. Even your Mom knows all of he lyrics to all of the Newsies songs because you sing them so much and refuse to listen to anything else.
8. You don't walk around the house, you dance to Newsies songs.
9. You have transformed all of your normal friends into Newsies freaks.
10. You insist on singing Santa Fe for competition, even though You can't reach all of the notes.
11. You dress up in your full newsies costume (including some fake newspapers) for youth group and attempt to sell to your friends.
12. All of your friends are doing he same.
13. Some of the people you know have never seen you without your Newsies cap
14. Suspenders are an essential part of your wardrobe.
15. You have a folder covered with newsies pictures plastered all over it. This is quite similar to your wall.
16. Instead of listening to the sermon at church, you take out your newsies folder and write the lyrics out for the 50th time.
17. Even though you're in middle school, you insist on handing out valentines that you made yourself with pictures from newsies that you got from the internet. They say really cheesey things such as : You're the King of New York!!! (that works quite well, especially if you live in NY, such as me) and The World Will Know....That you're awesome!!! (I think I'm alone on this one. Little old me, the devoted fan)
18. Everything reminds you of Newsies
19. You tell everyone that you were in it as one of the people that run in at the end.
20. When you were really little (at ths point, i was 2, and newsies was just out)your older sibling tried to get you to sing to newsies while they attempted to play an accompaniment on the piano.
21. When nobody is at home, you blast newsies on the cd player in your living room with the round sound system as loud as it will go and dance the whole Seize the Day Chorale dance and the King of New York routine including the handslap which you spent hours perfecting
22. Your lifelong dream is to scream off the Brooklyn Bridge.
23. You beg and plead your mom to let you take all of your Newsies friends (by this point, that's almost everyone you know) to New York to Scream off the Brooklyn Bridge and Visit Bottle Alley (and The Harbor if you will).
24. You make Shrinky Dink Bracelets with the names of all of the Newsies and wear them EVERYWHERE even though they cover your whole forearm and cut off your cirrculation. (I feel a song comming on!!! When the cirrculation bell starts ringing, will we hear it?....)
25. You insist on spending your life savings to go see The Lion King on Broadway, just for a glimpse of Max Casella *sigh*.
26. You belong to at least one Newsies Mailing list (hopefully mine) and practically every club and webring there is.
27. This is a normal thing to be going around your head for at least 12 hours per day; Newsies....Spot Conlon....The World Will Know!!!......Have to watch Newsies....Go on websites.....MAX CASELLA!!! (That's my life in a nutshell)
28. You Constantly have a song from Newsies stuck in your head.
29. Newsies takes up all of your wall space (collage=good), room space(newsies costume, pictures all over the place, your Newsies books, actor profiles, soundtracks etc. are EVERYWHERE. Now you know what my room looks like), locker space (i made newsies magnets...), personal space (i have Newsies t shirts), mind space (see #27), desk space (more pictures), space in the piano bench (music book), and any other space you have.
30. You read this knowing that you will indeed be found obsessed.

If you have any case of NOS in any way, shape, or form, I suggest watching Newsies and sitting in your bed writing fanfic while listening to the Newsies soundtrack.