#newsies on broadway

[military-newsboys]

Race: Arson? Oh, you mean "crime brûlée"

[p1anetmars]

today is the twelve year anniversary of newsies on broadway so happy birthday newsies i love you

[homosexual-newsboy]

YALL it is shocking how alive the Newsies fandom is even today like it's crazy there are so many of y'all

(Edit- the fact that there are 42 notes on this post and I put it up a few hours ago is proving my point)

[truths33k3r4]

" Don't ya know that we's a family? Would I let ya down? No way.

.. Just hold on, kid, till that train makes Santa Fe.... "

Finally finished my fanart for @allyheart707's Little Subjects!!

If you don't recognize the lyrics, they're from the Broadway play 'Newsies.' :) The song is about the hopeful dream of two young newsboys to someday go to the glorified town of Santa Fe, and escape all of their woes and lack of freedom. Soooooooo you can see why I picked it for my fanart of Ally's au. ;)

( I actually originally had the plan for Mikey and Donnie to be taking the place of Annie, from the 1982 film, but decided that the song from Newsies would fit better. :) The building where Mikey and Donnie are staying, is what the orphanage looked like that inspired the story of Annie! )

Anyways, I hope you like it, my friend!!! :) And I hope you're feeling better today!! Praying for you! <3

Two down.... four to go.. but first- Imma take a break cause I can just FEEL the carpal tunnel crawling up my fingers and wrist XD

~ Melissa

[enter-drfrog]

One thing I’ve learned through my years of consuming live theatre and bootlegs of live theatre is that you can almost always tell when someone used to be a Newsie.

They always have this like indescribable quality about how they move even compared to other incredibly well trained dancers. I think it’s just because Newsies is such an insane, other level caliber of dance that it just brings them to another quality of movement.

I don’t know how to describe it. I just know that whenever I watch something the Newsie always stands out.

[skywalkin-in-the-papes]

Newsies of the Seven Seas

(Jack is standing at the helm/wheel of the ship and Specs is climbing up the rigging so he can be a lookout) Jack: "Specs! Ya see anything?" Specs: "I don't know. I can't get into the crow's nest." Jack: "Why not?" Finch: "JACK. THERE'S A PIRATE SHIP COMING." Jack: "What's he doing up there?" Specs: "I wouldn't begin to know." Finch: "It's how I get a bird's eye view." Specs: sighs "Now ya see why he's in the crow's nest."

[tabooiart]

jack kelly but he actually looks like a 17 year old (jeremy jordan dni)

[averageschooltheatremoments]

Actual goddamn things people said/did during my school’s production of Newsies

Stage crew writes “troll strike” instead of “trolley strike”

Ensemble: “Every small child is going to think you’re an evil old man.” Pulitzer: “Well maybe I am”

“See kid? Women have legs too!”

“Romeo we can see you dancing backstage”

The villains and Theodore Roosevelt dancing

Davey: “This day will go down in PISSTOR- I MEAN HISTORY”

“If I drop my cello, PLEASE kill me.”

*holding glass upside down* “TEN CENTS FOR A GLASS OF SELTZER??!”

Davey: *Points at painting of Santa Fe* “Is this Arizona?”

Davey and Spot Collin keep shaking hands and then pretending to kiss

PULITZER KEPT ALMOST FALLING OFF THE STAGE

*backstage* “Uhmmm…why is there a box of dog food here?”

Jack: “You got a name, Katherine?”

Katherine: “Just think, while my father is…slipping??…we’ll be…taking him down!!” (She was great I wish I got to know her better before she graduated)

Spot was Pulitzer’s backup so when Pulitzer was sick the final confrontation scene was…interesting.

“OH I get fishnets :)”

Katherine: “And if I was a boy, I’d be…looking at you through one swollen eye!!” (It’s supposed to be “you’d be looking at me”)

Nun: *running around backstage* “I’m a nun on the run”

“I just don’t think committing suicide would be very fun y’know?”

“YOU CAN’T JUST PUT FIRE ON THE FLOOR!”

*Ensemble Newsie falls over* Weasel: “…Guess I have to” *pretends to kick them*

Jack drops all of his coins everywhere all over the stage

Jack: “You bet! Me n’ the boys will take a Journal over to the hike!”

Jacoby: (to a Newsie) “Don’t swing that aroun-“ *Does exactly that and spills a glass of water* “Oops.”

Davey: “Inspirational Speech time guys”

Les: “Are you kiddin’? She got no legs on!”

Pulitzer: “An escaped thief and petty…thief.”

AT THE END OF THE SHOW THE SENIORS GAVE THE BAND TEACHER A PINEAPPLE???

[newsiesrewritten]

NR Queens

Besides the Bronx, Queens is diverse and scrappy. Their scrappiness is purely because they are also the most divided, due to language barriers. Newsies split up by language and sometimes ethnicity, either kicking out newsies they couldn’t communicate with or taking crazy work arounds in order to get a bigger group to protect themselves.

Leaders of Queens are expected to surround themselves by a diverse group in order make sure they can communicate across the entire borough. Their current leader, Georgie, is a bright and talented young 16 year old newsie who managed to make friends with a diverse bunch! She’s well received in the boroughs and is trying to make sure her borough represents themselves with pride. Georgie and her gang are located in the Forest Hills area, a more suburban area but filled with them richies!

They have a lot of work to do to be unanimous, but there’s nothing like a bit of traumabonding and a strike to help them along!

Queens wears mainly a range of yellows, though Canary Yellow, Mustard Yellow and Orange Yellow seem popular with the group. (Yellow represents diversity!). If they’re not wearing yellow in some way, Queens is repping their countries colors. They love to show where their ancestors were from and are mighty proud of their ethnicity.

Credits: Georgie is a Queens borough leader who gained her seat at the table from Kicks, both newsies were made by @ollitheheadphoneskid23

If you want to see your newsie featured in the rewrite, send in an ask with info about your newsie! I’m also accepting small plot points, ideas, and possible headcanons!

[buubsii]

FOUND THIS VIDEO OF MIKE DOING SANTA FE ON TWITTER

[we-are-inevitable]

stay with me, just for the hell of it // javid

Nonetheless, it’s another two hours or so before he checks his phone. He responds to a few messages from aunts and uncles, posts a “thanks for the birthday wishes!” on his Facebook to appease his menagerie of cousins and grandparents, and finally opens Snapchat to see what those notifications are. When he does so, he sees a few chats from Jack- not an uncommon occurrence- but the last message stops him in his tracks.

jackie: hey happy birthday! i know i already told you but oh well

jackie: are you busy rn?

jackie: jk i forgot to wait for a response im on the way rn

***

Author’s Note:

oh my god WOW i actually have a new fic posted !! pls show it some love and comment!!!

Read On AO3!

[military-newsboys]

Jack: This is not coffee. This is twenty bottles of five-hour energy and four cans of Monster mixed with cocoa powder. Jack: I'm pretty sure my heart stopped beating two hours ago.

[upside-down-sock-drawer]

Transmascs will be like “That’s so gender!” and it’s a pirouetting newsboy.

[deafwestnewsies]

my newsies name is zero bitches. i sell the daily rizz what’s good girl

[broadwaycantdie]

i love them so much

[rasbburr]

rewatched newsies a couple nights ago and i've kinda realized something

so, king of new york, right? racetrack takes pretty much center stage with that one. this is his somewhat big moment to shine in the spotlight, and it's meant to be a pretty uplifting song for the other newsies. but the way the song opens had started to confuse me a little.

race is literally named off the fact that he goes to the sheepshead races very very often. like that is His Thing. BUT, when we get to king of new york, his line is not about that. instead, it's romeo's line. which is kinda weird right? especially with race's line being about his shoelaces as one of the cleaner looking newsies. like That's the thing you're so worried about? that's what you'd do as a famous person? but that's not where my point arises

going back to romeo's line. hearing it again on stage (and by stage i mean livesies), it sounds a little bit like romeo's mocking race, right? that can't just be me who sees that. And that's exactly what i think he's doing. the newsies don't immediately hop onto race's idea of "being famous just gets you everything" the moment he starts singing. sure, they get a little morale boost with being on the front page, but katherine's news about there being a blackout on strike news sets that back a bit, especially with the talk immediately after following crutchie and jack and all the stuff that happened just yesterday. front page or not, they still don't think it's possible to win after their defeat the day before. especially not without jack. not without a clear leader (i don't think they fully considered davey candidate for leader at this point but that's just me)

but Race doesn't see that. he instantly jumps on the whole front page thing and being famous not because he's just realized it and needs to share with his friends how damn cool he is for that. he's using king of new york to lift them back up. he starts it off, no matter of the others mocking and joking about it. and then albert joins in. then les. then davey. then katherine. and at that point everyone's like "okay, maybe he's onto something" and That's why i think this number is so powerful. some of the things they sing about may sound ridiculous or maybe even too out of reach for them, but fuck it! they've earned this. they've earned these dreams and fantasies and this fantastic tap dance number.

this is what gets them back on their feet. what i think gives davey the idea to start the rally, because after this huge boost, they're going for something big, especially after realizing that they were putting up a fight, that pulitzer and wiesel and the delanceys were genuinely worried about this strike, that they now know for sure brooklyn's in on it all too. they genuinely believe they can win this. that there's a chance. and all it took was just the ideas of what were to come if they Did win. maybe i'm thinking too hard into this silly number, but hey, the whiplash from santa fe to king of new york to letter from the refuge has to exist for a reason, right??