Newsies Tour Finds New Jack Kelly and Katherine

Disney Theatrical Productions will welcome six new principal cast members to the North American tour of Disney’s Newsies.

The new cast will feature Joey Barreiro as Jack Kelly, Morgan Keene as Katherine, Aisha de Haas as Medda Larkin, Stephen Michael Langton as Davey, with John Michael Pitera and Ethan Steiner alternating in the role of Les. The new cast members, aside from Pitera, will begin performances at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford on October 13. Pitera will debut at the Providence Performing Arts Center on October 20.

The new principal cast members will join Steve Blanchard as Joseph Pulitzer and Zachary Sayle as Crutchie. Rounding out the cast are Josh Assor, Evan Autio, Bill Bateman, Josh Burrage, Kevin Carolan, Benjamin Cook, DeMarius Copes, Nico DeJesus, JP Ferreri, Sky Flaherty, Kaitlyn Frank, Michael Gorman, David Guzman, Jeff Heimbrock, Stephen Hernandez, Meredith Inglesby, James Judy, Eric Scott Kincaid, Eric Jon Mahlum, Nicholas Masson, Alex Prakken, Michael Ryan, Jordan Samuels, Melissa Steadman Hart, Andrew Wilson, and Chaz Wolcott.

Newsies, which ended its Broadway run on August 24, won Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Choreography. In addition to music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, it features a book by Harvey Fierstein. The musical, inspired by the 1992 film of the same name, tells the story of a group of tenacious newsboys at the turn of the last century who band together to form a union and lead a strike after selling prices are raised. The tour is currently booked through summer of 2016, with additional engagements still to be announced.

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