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Newsies

Newsies the musical is based on the 1992 Disney movie of the same name and is one of the Disney on Broadway Musicals. The show has music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein. The musical premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 2011 and made its Broadway debut in 2012, where it played for more than 1,000 performances before touring. 
Act 1
"Ain't it a fine life carrying the banner."

The show opens the early hours of the morning in New York City, the year that the show takes place is 1899. Jack tells us who he would like to one day move out of New York City, and get to Santa Fe. The new boys get ready for their shift of selling new papers to anyone who likes one. Here Jack meets Davey, and his younger brother Les, but unlike the rest of the Newsies, Davey and Les have a family, their father is out of work so they are earning some extra money. Over at the New York World, the publisher Joseph Pulitzer, has increased the price of the newspapers to the delivery boys as a way to outsell his competition

"Even though we ain't got hats or badges we're a union just say saying so! And the world will know!"

Later we see that Jack, Davey, and Les are chased by a man named Warden Synder, of a juvenile detention center called the Refuge.  The boys run into the theatre that is owned by Jack's friend Metta Larkin. While at the show, Jack spots a young female reporter named Katherine Plumber, and he turns on all of his charms in an attempt to win her affections.   The next morning the Newsies find out that the price of papers has gone up, so Jack decides that he will organize a protest. Katherine sees this as the story that could make her a more serious journalist, and so she says that she will write about the newsboy strike. The strike is cut short, due to complications, one of the boys Crutichie is injured and taken to the Refuge. 

Act 2

"Who'd have thunk I'm the king of New York!"

The next morning Katherine informs the newsies that their article made the front page of the New York Sun. The newsies celebrate this news by imagining what it would be like to be famous. Crutchie sends Jack a letter from the Refuge reflecting on what is going on in the building.  Davey, Katherine, and Les find Jack in Metta's theatre and he says that he will not put the newsies in danger again, Davey remind him they will need to take risks in order to get Crutchie back. 

"I have something to believe in, now that I know you believed in me."

Meanwhile, at the World, Pulitzer is discussing with Synder about Jack as Katherine listens to them. While Jack is confronting Pulitzer, we find out that Katherine is his daughter, and she tries to apologize for keeping this information from him. Pulitzer says that if  Jack calls off the strike, then he will be cleared of all charges against him, and he will be given the money to get to Santa Fe. Spot Conlon, the head Brooklyn newsie rallies all of his newsies for Jack's cause. Jack is reluctant about it, but he decides to accept the offer that Pulitzer gave him, shocking news to Davey and Katherine.  Later we find out more about the charges that Jack has against him, and we find out what a good guy he is.   

"There's a change coming once and for all, you make the front page and then you is major news."

Katherine and Jack print their paper with the rest of the newsies, one that will reveal the outcome of the strike. The paper is sen to Governor Theodore Roosevelt who shows in support of the newsies cause. Pulitzer is not out of ideas, and so Jack says that Pulztier should buy back every paper the newsies can't sell, making him more generous than his competitors. Pulztiler agrees, Crutiche is freed, and Synder is arrested for the deeds he has done to the boys in the Refuge. Jack plans to leave for Santa Fe, but he stays in New York and is given a job as a political cartoonist. 

Newsies has a cast recording on iTunes, and other streaming services. Also, there is a pro shot on Netflix. 

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