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Highlights of the Grove Theatre production of Newsies!

I saw the Grove Theatre production of Newsies in Upland, CA this past weekend. It was an amazing show like always! I will say that it was a smaller venue than I’m used it but that made the performance more intimate, chaotic, and memorable.

Pre-Show

-Finch, Romeo, and Albert selling papers (show programs and playbills) as the pre-show. Some of the seats of the theater has pennies on the armrests so those were what we paid with.

-Romeo and Finch play fighting and racing and playing tag and just being newsies to the audience as they were trickling into their seats.

-apparently Romeo is the responsible one yet he can’t tell time and yet he wants to buy a pocket watch just for the looks.

-Albert stole race’s cigar during the pre-show and was bragging that she stole it from Race.

-Cap Theft part 1! Finch stole Romeo’s cap and ran all around the theater and finally place the cap on me.

-newsie discourse about “sellin free food.” Finch says there’s no such thing, Elmer disagrees because an audience member says she sells free food all the time.

-CAP THEFT part 2! This time Romeo stoke and switched Elmer ‘s cap with his but then placed Elmer’s cap on another audience member. Elmer didn’t see this and thought Romeo was wearing his cap but Romeo legitimately was wearing his own cap. Elmer eventually figured it out and then both Elmer and Romeo proceeded to fight but Romeo distracts Elmer and runs away.

-Albert sold his last pape for a dollar runs back to the lodge and almost trips onto the stage.

Act 1

-crutchie actually tried to be quiet before Santa Fe prologue.

-a lot of female newsies and POC newsies.

-Romeo jumped down from one of the sets infront of Katherine and Darcy.

-Darcy was very tall! I think he was the tallest in the cast

-when the delanceys were gonna attack crutchie, it looked like the other newsies held crutchie back because we wanted the fight! Also jack kneed Morris in the gut.

-Wiesel had an Eyepatch and smoked a cigar like Race

-nunzio was very adamant that me Pulitzer stayed still.

-Snyder was a long trench coat wearing villain. With fedora to match.

-medda was amazing as always! She had this larger feathered red hat and lots of gold and red jewelry

-the Bowery beauties had an umbrella dance choreography during Dont come a knocking

-the newsies were winning the brawl after seize the day but once the bulls showed up they lost. Also the entire fight scene was super chaotic. It was very difficult to keep track as to what was happening but I think someone stole crutchie’s crutch and was beating people with it.

-also crutchie was still conscious when Snyder was dragging him away. He was still screaming for the other newsies to help him.

-jack’s Santa Fe was amazing!!! There was little ministage on the side and that’s where he sulked and sang Santa Fe.

Intermission

-Albert raffles off tickets and called some audience members, little newsie in cosplay to draw the tickets. The little newsie drew his own ticket and his brother’s ticket for the 1st and 3rd prizes. Albert didn’t trust them one bit and it was very hilarious.

Act 2

-Katherine danced throughout the entire song

-Davey and Finch had a tap dance battle during KoNY!

-crutchie was alone during letter from the refuge. Like other performances I’ve seen had at least a few other newsies sleeping nearby but he was truly alone here.

-also I guess Davey lost his vest and cap between acts because in KoNY, he didn’t have them but during Watch what happened reprise, he did.

-poor Les’ mic was acting up before watch was happens reprise. Also everyone was stunned that Les had a date!

-Brooklyn’s here!!! Ok so the Brooklyn newsies come from one of the on-stage catwalks while the other newsies came from the aisles of the theater. We were surrounded by newsies!

-spot conlon was dressed in faded (dirty?) pastels newsie clothes. I think his shirt was a shade of pink!

-the davey actually had the newsies’s attention. Like they were agreeing with all his points before jack got to the rally mucked everything!

-ok so during the kissing scene, jack and Katherine were so confused as to what happened that they both spun around and looked away from each other bet they couldn’t believe what just happened.

-During once and for all, the newsies ran from the back of the theater onto the stage. again we were surrounded by newsies

-during the finale, the newsies were grossed out by Jack and Kath’s kiss. Sometimes I forget that the newsies are supposed to be kids and teens but this reminded me that they are.

Post-Show

-cast meet and greet with the full company. We got to see the costumes up close! I’m sad I didn’t get any photos of the cast during the meet and greet.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄  𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃  𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆  𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐄  𝐎𝐅  𝐉𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐍  𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐘

aka  every  production  and  credit  jordan  has  held  since  her  first  community  theatre  show  at  age  five.  credits  are  broken  down  by  age  and  run  from  childhood  through  her  senior  year  of  college.

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄  —  𝐓𝐄𝐍.

the  sound  of  music  ( gretl  von  trapp ),  the  capstone  community  theatre annie  ( orphan ),  the  capstone  community  theatre the  secret  garden  ( mary ),  the  capstone  community  theatre the  nutcracker  ( dancer ),  west  grove  dance  company les  miserables  ( young  eponine ),  the  capstone  community  theatre mary  poppins  ( jane ),  the  capstone  community  theatre

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍  —  𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍.

gypsy  ( baby  june ),  the  capstone  community  theatre the  music  man  ( gracie  shinn ),  the  capstone  community  theatre the  nutcracker  ( clara ),  west  grove  dance  company into  the  woods  ( little  red  riding  hood ),  the  capstone  theatre  company the  wizard  of  oz  ( dorothy  gale ),  the  capstone  theatre  company

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍.

sense  and  sensibility  ( marianne  dashwood ),  brentwood  high  school  drama  club shrek:  the  musical  ( teenage  fiona ),  the  capstone  community  theatre newsies  ( newsie / ensemble ),  the  capstone  community  theatre

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐒𝐈𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍.

the  crucible  ( abigail  williams ),  brentwood  high  school  drama  club clue  ( miss  scarlet ),  the  capstone  community  theatre grease  ( cha  cha  digregorio ),  the  capstone  community  theatre

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍.

cinderella  ( ensemble,  understudy:  cinderella ),  eastmoor  drama  club high  school  musical  ( sharpay  evans ),  outside  the  box  community  theatre heathers  the  musical:  teen  edition  ( heather  chandler ),  eastmoor  drama  club

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍.

hairspray  ( penny  pingleton );  eastmoor  drama  club the  sound  of  music  ( liesl  von  trapp );  outside  the  box  community  theatre little  shop  of  horrors  ( audrey );  eastmoor  drama  club

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍 / 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐇𝐌𝐀𝐍  𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑.

the  rocky  horror  show  ( janet  weiss );  rothfield  university  drama  department a  midsummer  night’s  dream  ( first  fairy);  rothfield university  drama  department the  phantom  of  the  opera  ( principal  ballerina );  rothfield  university  drama  department

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘 / 𝐒𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄  𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑.

legally  blonde  ( paulette );  rothfield  university  drama  department pride  and  prejudice  ( lydia  bennett );  rothfield  university  drama  department ragtime  ( evlyn  nesbit );  rothfield  university  drama  department *  jordan  ultimately  did  not  perform  the  ragtime  shows  due  to  her  recovery  from  injuries  in  the  rothfield  massacre

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘  𝐎𝐍𝐄 / 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐑  𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑.

mamma  mia  ( sophie );  rothfield  university  drama  department little  women  ( jo  march );  rothfield  university  drama  department heathers  the  musical  ( veronica  sawyer );  rothfield  university  drama  department

𝐀𝐆𝐄  𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘  𝐓𝐖𝐎 / 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐑  𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑.

grease  ( betty  rizzo );  rothfield  university  drama  department the  glass  menagerie  ( laura  wingfield );  the  rothfield  university  drama  department west  side  story  ( maria );  rothfield  university  drama  department

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Newsies at the Grove Theatre in Upland, CA

The Grove Theatre's production of Disney's Newsies in Upland, CA

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