NEWSIES Announces Full Broadway Song List!

Disney Theatrical Productions has just announced the song list for the upcoming Broadway production of Newsies, beginning performances at the Nederlander Theatre (208 W. 41st Street) on March 15th. The score will feature the best-loved songs from the film – many with new lyrics, counterpoints and arrangements to suit new plot points and the more fully fleshed out characterizations – and six songs added for the stage, including three songs newly written for Broadway since the Paper Mill production.

The Newsies song list will be as follows (subject to change):

Santa Fe (Prologue)- Jack and Crutchie
Carrying The Banner- Company
The Bottom Line- Pulitzer, Seitz, Bunsen, Hannah and Nunzio
That's Rich- Medda
Don't Come A-Knocking- Jack, Katherine and Bowery Beauties
The World Will Know- Jack, Davey, Les and Newsies
The World Will Know (Reprise)- Jack, Davey, Les and Newsies
Watch What Happens- Katherine
Seize the Day- Company
Santa Fe- Jack
King of New York- Davey, Les, Katherine and Newsies
Watch What Happens (Reprise)- Jack, Davey, Katherine and Les
The Bottom Line (Reprise)- Pulitzer, Seitz and Mayor
Brooklyn's Here- Spot Conlon and Newsies
Something to Believe In- Jack and Katherine
Seize the Day (Reprise)- Newsies
Once and For All- Jack, Davey, Les, Katherine, Darcy, Bill and Newsies
Seize the Day (Reprise)- Newsies
Santa Fe/ Carrying the Banner/ King of New York (Finale)-Jack and Company

Newsies, the new American musical, will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 W 41st St) for a strictly limited 101 performance run following its critically-hailed stint at Paper Mill Playhouse last fall. The musical, featuring music by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act), lyrics by Jack Feldman and a book by four-time Tony® Award winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), will play its first Broadway preview on March 15th prior to its March 29th opening night; the final performance is scheduled for June 10th. Newsies, produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, is directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun (Big River revival) and choreographed by Tony nominee Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific revival).

The Broadway company of Newsies will feature Jeremy Jordan (Bonnie & Clyde) as Jack Kelly, John Dossett (2003 revival of Gypsy) as Joseph Pulitzer, Kara Lindsay (Little House on the Prairie) as Katherine Plumber, Capathia Jenkins (Caroline, or Change) as Medda, Ben Fankhauser (Spring Awakening national tour) as Davey, Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Mary Poppins) as Crutchie, and Lewis Grosso (Mary Poppins), and Matthew Schechter (Elf) alternating the role of Les. Jordan, Dossett, Lindsay, Fankhauser and Keenan-Bolger will all reprise the roles they created in the Paper Mill Playhouse production last fall.

The ensemble of Newsies will feature Aaron J. Albano, Mark Aldrich, Tommy Bracco, John E. Brady, Ryan Breslin, Kevin Carolan, Caitlyn Caughell, Kyle Coffman, Mike Faist, Michael Fatica, Julie Foldesi, Garett Hawe, Thayne Jasperson, Evan Kasprzak, Jess Le Protto, Stuart Marland, Andy Richardson, Jack Scott, Ryan Steele, Brendon Stimson, Nick Sullivan, Ephraim Sykes, Laurie Veldheer, Alex Wong and Stuart Zagnit.

Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies is the rousing tale 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.

Newsies is inspired by the real-life 'Newsboy Strike of 1899,' when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway newsies on a two-week-long action against Pulitzer, Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers.

For more information on Newsies, please visit NewsiesTheMusical.com