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Disney’s Newsies to Play Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre

A scene from Newsies
(© T Charles Erickson)
A scene from Newsies
(© T Charles Erickson)

The Disney musical Newsies will play a limited engagement at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre, running March 15 – June 10, with an opening scheduled for March 29. Jeff Calhoun, who directed the show’s premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse earlier this fall, will direct the production, which will once again have choreography by Christopher Gattelli.

Featuring music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a new book by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, Newsies is adapted for the stage from the live-action Disney feature film musical, inspired by the real life “Newsboy Strike of 1899.” The new stage version will contain both new songs by the original team of Menken and Feldman as well as many that they wrote for the film, which had a screenplay by Bob Tzudiker & Noni White.

Set in New York City at the turn of the century, the musical tells the story of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged ‘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.

Casting will be announced in the near future.

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