Photo Coverage: NEWSIES Celebrates One Year on Broadway with Cast, Cake & Creatives!
By: Walter McBride Mar. 29, 2013
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Newsies, the hit Tony Award-winning musical celebrated its first year on Broadway with its entire creative team and Mauro Castano from Carlo's Bakery and TLC's "Cake Boss," who created a one of a kind cake for the special occasion.
Newsies opened at the Nederlander Theatre on March 29, 2012 and BroadwayWorld.com was there to celebrate its FIRST Broadway birthday!
Newsies features a Tony Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, with a book by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein. Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, Newsies is directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, who won a 2012 Tony Award for his work.
Since bursting onto Broadway last spring, Newsies has set and broken seven Nederlander Theatre house records. The show received 23 major theatrical nominations - including eight Tony Award nods - and won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Score and Choreography. One of Broadway's highest profile hits, it has been featured nationally on "Dancing with the Stars," "The View," "Good Morning America," "Nightline," "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade," "The CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade," "The 2012 Tony Awards," and "The Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade."
The Broadway company of Newsies features Corey Cott as Jack Kelly, John Dossett as Joseph Pulitzer, Kara Lindsay as Katherine Plumber, LaVon Fisher-Wilson as Medda Larkin, Ben Fankhauser as Davey, Andy Richardson as Crutchie, and Nicholas Lampiasi, and Joshua Colley alternating the role of Les.
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.
Photos by Walter McBride
Cast Board for 'NEWSIES' on their One Year Anniversary
'The Cake' - designed by 'Cake Boss' Cafe chef Mauro Castano
'Cake Boss' Cafe chef Mauro Castano along with (2nd row L-R) Garett Hawe, Evan Kasprzak, (Bottom L-R) Ryan Breslin, Brendon Stimson, Tommy Bracco, and Aaron J. Albano
'Cake Boss' Cafe chef Mauro Castano along with (2nd row L-R) Garett Hawe, Evan Kasprzak, (Bottom L-R) Ryan Breslin, Brendon Stimson, Tommy Bracco, and Aaron J. Albano
(Top row L-R) Harvey Fierstein, Thomas Schumacher, Jack Feldman, Alan Menken, Jeff Calhoun, Christopher Gattelli, (2nd row L-R) Garett Hawe, Evan Kasprzak, (Bottom L-R) Ryan Breslin, Brendon Stimson, Tommy Bracco, and Aaron J. Albano
(Top row L-R) Harvey Fierstein, Thomas Schumacher, Jack Feldman, Alan Menken, Jeff Calhoun, Christopher Gattelli, (2nd row L-R) Garett Hawe, Evan Kasprzak, (Bottom L-R) Ryan Breslin, Brendon Stimson, Tommy Bracco, and Aaron J. Albano
The Cast, Creative Team & Company
The Cast, Creative Team & Company
Director Jeff Calhoun with Garett Hawe, Evan Kasprzak, Ryan Breslin, John Michael Fiumara, Tommy Bracco, Aaron J. Albano & Company
Ben Fankhauser, LaVon Fisher-Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken, Jack Feldman, John Dossett, Jeff Calhoun & Company
LaVon Fisher-Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken, Jack Feldman, John Dossett, Jeff Calhoun & Company
Ben Fankhauser, LaVon Fisher-Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken, Jack Feldman, John Dossett, Jeff Calhoun & Company
Corey Cott, Alan Menken & Company
Harvey Fierstein, Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken & Company
Harvey Fierstein, Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken, Jack Feldman & Company
Harvey Fierstein, Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken & Company
Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken & Company
Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken & Company
Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken & Company
Alan Menken, La Von Fisher-Wilson, Corey Cott, Jeff Calhoun, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Jack Feldman & Company
Ben Fankhauser, LaVon Fisher-Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken, Jack Feldman, John Dossett, Jeff Calhoun & Company
LaVon Fisher-Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken, Jack Feldman, John Dossett, Jeff Calhoun & Company
LaVon Fisher-Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Corey Cott, Mark Aldrich, Thomas Schumacher, Kara Lindsay, Alan Menken, Jack Feldman, John Dossett, Jeff Calhoun & Company
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