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[the-woild-is-ya-erster]

Are we still into Random West Endsies Notes because I have a THING.

So. We've at least mostly established how great Michael Ahomka Lindsay is as Jack, buttt here's a whole other reason to love his Jack.

I call it the 'dream stance' because I need a name for every. little. detail

It first happens during the Santa Fe Prologue, and it's a little bit of blocking which has Jack leaning over the edge of the railing - arm outstretched and grasping at thin air, his upper body at a whole angle that almost looks like he's gonna fall off the 'penthouse'

And then it happens again during Santa Fe - when he starts talking of the place, as he leaves his NYC mindset and enters his deluded dream, he stretches out again, over the barrier, trying to separate himself from the cold metal of Manhattan. It's especially striking here, with the yellow sun in the background?? It's so good.

I'd kind of established it as a Santa Fe thing, representing his want for escape and freedom and all that, but then

It happened in the Watch What Happens (Reprise). It gets to the bit where he finally allows himself to believe in the strike again, and as they sing 'get those kids to see/we're circling victory' he enters that same pose again, but grounded this time, on the floor, and stable

He just reaches out his hand and leans forward, still grasping at air but no longer in a position that seems dangerous. Then I realised it was a stance to show his dreams, and therefore how they changed

It's at this point that Jack realises (and its visually represented to us) that Santa Fe is no longer Jack's dream - it's the strike and the welfare of the newsies, it's Katherine and Davey and Crutchie and Les, and romance and friendship and family