STAGE TUBE: NEWSIES' Opening Night Ticket Lottery to Benefit BC/EFA!

NEWSIES opens officially tonight at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 W 41st St) for a strictly limited run following its critically-hailed stint at Paper Mill Playhouse last fall. 100 tickets to NEWSIES' Opening Night were given away via a lottery benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. View video!

The Disney 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 opening night on March 29; 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).

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.