About
Newsies Broadway:
Newsies plays at Nederlander Theatre
208 West 41st St, New York, NY 10036
Between 7th and 8th Avenues-
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Newsies, the musical, moved to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on March 2012, for a strictly limited 101 performances run following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse earlier this fall. The Newsies musical, features a score by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act) and Jack Feldman and is based on a book by four-time Tony® Award winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy). Newsies Musical will play its first Broadway preview on March 15th prior to its March 29th opening night; the final performance is scheduled for June 10th, 2012. Newsies, produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, is directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun (Big River revival) and choreographed by Tony nominee Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific revival).
Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teen aged '
newsies', who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys' expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what's right.
Newsies is inspired by the real life ‘Newsboy Strike of 1899,' when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of real life orphan and runaway newsies on a two-week long action against Pulitzer, Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers. The Newsies Broadway musical is a Disney theatrical production based on the 1992 film "Newsies"
An unexpected journey led Newsies to Broadway. The stage adaptation had been developed for licensing to theatre groups and its Paper Mill run intended only as a pilot production for that market. The planned next step was to immediately release the title to the theatres and schools who had for many years made Newsies the single most requested title of all the Disney film musicals not yet adapted to the stage.
Newsies songs
Newsies' Broadway production introduces several brand-new songs by the original team of Menken and Feldman while keeping many of the beloved songs from the film, including ‘Carrying the Banner, ‘Seize the Day,' ‘King of New York' and ‘Santa Fe.'
Newsies on Broadway - Songs in Act I
- "Overture" (Played by the Orchestra)
- "Santa Fe (Prologue)" (Jack & Crutchie)
- "Carrying The Banner" - (From the film, Played by the Company)
- "The Bottom Line" (Sung by: Pulitzer, Seitz, Bunsen, Hannah & Nunzio)
- "That's Rich" (By Medda)
- "Don't Come A-Knocking"/"I Never Planned on You" (Jack, Katherine & Bowery Beauties)
- "The World Will Know" (Davey, Jack, Les & Newsies)
- "The World Will Know" (Reprise) (Jack, Davey, Les & Newsies)
- "Watch What Happens" (Performed by Katherine)
- "Seize the Day" (from the film, Played by Company)
- "Santa Fe" (from the film, Sung by Jack)
Newsies on Broadway - Songs in Act II
- "King of New York" - (from the film, sung by Davey, Les, Katherine & Newsies)
- "Watch What Happens" (Sung by Jack, Davey, Katherine & Les)
- "The Bottom Line" (Reprise, by Pulitzer, Seitz & Mayor)
- "Brooklyn's Here" (Performed by Spot Conlon & Newsies)
- "Something to Believe In" (Played by Jack & Katherine
- "Seize the Day" (Reprise by the Newsies
- "Once and For All" (Jack, Davey, Les, Katherine, Bill, Darcy & the Newsies
- "Seize the Day" (Reprise, by the Newsies
- "Santa Fe/ Carrying the Banner/ King of New York (Finale)" (by Jack and Company)
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