#jacobi's dELI

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Hi Saf what’s my government assigned song -el

I forgot this game was in my queue whoops

Anywho: I'm really feeling Second Child, Restless Child by The Oh Hellos for some reason and I absolutely cannot explain why.

[ill-say-anything-i-hafta]

Yo, the High Holidays are coming up -- who is ready to rectify a great wrong and create fanworks about JEWISH CRUTCHIE?

Other confirmed or plausibly Jewish characters in Newsies: David, Les, Sarah, and their parents. Joe Pulitzer and Katherine. Mr. Wiesel. Morris and Oscar. Mush Meyers. Seitz and Hannah. Mr. Jacobi.

I am not Jewish and can't write about this knowledgeably but am super down to read it!

[snap-my-kneecaps]

Race: Romeo ain’t the problem this year. Ike: When are you gonna get it? Romeo is ALWAYS the problem.

[baura-bear]

Does anyone have good pictures of the lamps in Jacobi’s? And if so can you plz send them to me

[fieriframes]

[FIERI: That's David Jacoby, a Brooklyn transplant who made his restaurant dream a reality back in '94 and Marcus also refers to himself by this name (6.44). with deli sandwiches... Corned-beef Reuben, avocado Amish cheese.]

[ill-say-anything-i-hafta]

Yeah, or David marries the deli guy and they hyphenate, so he becomes David Jacobs-Jacobi.

I don't ship them but like, concept: Crutchie and Morris get married and Morris hates his family name sm that he accepts becoming Morris Morris

[ruthisathespian]

at our cast party for newsies we were in a dnd themed resturaunt bar place and we were in this room with tables that looked just like our jacobis deli tables from the set and so we all sat at them and our Albert ordered a seltzer-imean sprite and our waitress knew newsies!! So she made a couple jokes related to the show and alberts seltzer imean sprite, and we turned newsies on the tv that was in there and all sang along and said our lines and ate pizza and pretzels

[ur-local-theatre-obsessed-menace]

~𝐼 - 𝐴 𝑊𝐻𝑂𝐿𝐸 𝑁𝐸𝑊 𝐵𝐸𝐺𝐼𝑁𝐼𝑁𝐺~

“Seriously,” Davey started, putting more food into his mouth. “What does Santa Fe have that we don’t?”

Katherine laughed, awaiting Jack’s response.

Truthfully, Jack didn’t know. All he knew was that he originally wanted to leave New York. To get out of the smoke ridden city, where all he had to pass the time was manual labor. But now, Jack realized that if he went through with it, took Crutchie with him, and got away for good, he’d be leaving his family behind. He would be leaving kids he’d been protecting for oh-so-long, and he knows, it sucks being on your own.

“To be honest, now that I’s lookin’ at it, Santa Fe ain’t like it here. Sure there ain’t no horses n’ clean air in New York, but it’s home. This silly little town is where I grew up and met my family. I’s wouldn’t change not one bit.”

Jack spoke, taking a sip of water.

“Though, I would like to take some people with me to get a little slice a’ what life out there would be.”

Crutchie walked into Jacobi's Deli, sitting next to Jack, Katherine, Davey, and Les.

“Like who?”

Jack smiled at crutchie, nodding in his direction.

“Didn’t I make you’s a promise?”

Cructhie laughed, taking a glass of water from Jacobi when he came by.

“But, on that note, I’d be bringing you, Kathy, Davey, and Les. You’s deserve it after all.”

Les’ jaw dropped, then he quickly smiled.

“You’d really do that for us Jack? You’ll take us to the place you painted?”

Jack laughed, taking the boy’s hat off his head playfully.

“A’course I will. You all deserve it afta’ all. Cause, we’s all a family.”

Les took his hat back and stuck a tongue out at Jack, making him laugh.

“Cowboy Jack. Not something I ever thought I’d actually see.”

Katherine mused, causing Jack to roll his eyes, while the others laughed.

“Oh c'mon Jack, don’t forget that you told me to ‘just hop a palomino! You’s be ridin’ in style!’.”

Crutchie repeated, smirking.

“Really man?! You’s was supposed to be my best friend..”

Jack feigned a hurt expression, putting a hand over his chest as the others laughed.

Crutchie stuck his tongue out jokingly and Jack rolled his eyes at his action.

“But seriously, you’d take us with you? We- As in me, Les and Katherine- Haven’t even known you for long!”

Jack waved a dismissive hand, taking another sip of water.

“Like I said, you’s is family. Thanks to you, I was able to stand up for the otha’ boy’s.”

Davey smiled, putting a hand on Jack’s shoulder.

“And, we have extra money with my help!”

Katherine chimed in, showing her earnings that week, which had been a crisp $12.

“Kathy, I can’t take you’s dough like that. You work hard for it”

Katherine rolled her eyes, shoving the money in the shirt pocket on his chest.

“You work hard too, and it will be much quicker this way, as you only make approximately $1.92 a week, so with my aid, we should be able to afford 5 train tickets, which would cost $194.3 all together within two years! Which the exact date is… Unknown, but it would be about a year and 10 months!”

Jack groaned, leaning his head back.

“At this rate all of us would hav’ta start selling 100 papes daily!”

Katherine took out a pen and notepad, writing something down

“Actually, if you go through with that and sell out each day, then that would raise the numbers to $7.68 with all of you combined, and with my 12, it would raise that to $19.68, meaning it would only take 11 months! Cutting our estimated time almost in half!”

Katherine turns her pen and points it at the boys.

“You guys don’t have spare money you're willing to put aside for this, do you?”

Les raised his hand, practically jumping out of his seat.

“I have $5 from my birthday last year!”

Davey chimed in, clearing his throat.

“I have an extra ten lying around back at my parents house.”

Katherine nodded, writing all of this down.

“So now, taking 15 off of our total, would be $179.3, so we’d only have to work for 9 months! Boom! We just cut a year off of our original time!”

Jack smiles at Katherine, kissing her on the head.

“Thanks for all the help Kathy”

Katherine smiles, finishing her glass of water.

“Let's all get to bed. That way, we can be up and first in line for papes tomorrow!”

Crutchie chimes in, gathering all of the empty cups and putting them at the edge of the table.

The group all said goodnight, retreating to their respective places, Jack and Crutchie up in the ‘penthouse’, Davey and Les, back with their parents, and Katherine in her father’s home.

“Hey Crutchie?”

Crutchie looked at Jack, who was leaning on the metal railing of the rooftop.

“You think we can actually do this?”

Crutchie laughs and smiles.

“Of course we can! We're all working crazy hard for this!”

Jack smiles, sitting down against the railing.

“Thanks man. Let’s get some rest now, yeah?”

Crutchie nods, laying down.

“Night Jack”

“Night Crutchie"

~To Be continued…~

[newsiesrewritten]

Hi!!! Really stoked to see what you have for Henry Butler! Ik the basics like foodie but my personal head cannon is that his parents were hard of hearing and used ASL with him so much sometimes he just forgets to talk and just signs :))

Henry “Major” Butler!

Here’s Henry! Looking through all my research, I was super happy to have some goodies for you! Below the cut is all my references and some fun facts!

Henry’s facial features are mostly based off Demarius Copes and Michael Rios! I mostly keep the description of @newsiepedia in mind when making newsies so it still has an overall feel of each character! I kept his dark hair and more sharp chin.

I didn’t draw his cap! (Mostly to show off his hair.) It’s always crooked or lopsided and in act 2 you can see his head bandages poking out from under it.

Butler is a german last name and one of my friends who has his last name agreed that he should be German!

This friend is also Jewish, so I might make Henry Jewish as well.

Speaking of name, Henry Butler was a real newsie! His nickname was “Major Butts” and “Puts,” he was the leader of the Upper Manhattan union when Kid Blink stepped down. He was arrested on the charges of blackmailing as he told The World he wouldn’t break strike for anything less than 600$ which would be 22,000$ today.

Since the gilded age of New York is when mass immigration was more prevalent, I decided to make Henry a German immigrant.

I love Henry’s deli as part of his backstory and I really didn’t want him to lose it, so I gave Henry an elder brother to take over the deli when their father died. I also gave him ties to Jacobi’s as Jacobi is a jewish last name and I feel Henry would look up to Jacobi since he missed his father.

The lines “I thought I’d surprise me motha” “If you can find her!” I thought was interesting, it doesn’t necessarily mean he was abandoned by her. If anything, I thought it’d be MORE interesting if he knew exactly where she was, back in Germany with his sister. So Henry and his brother are working to get enough money to bring their mother and sister over to them!

As for your headcanon, I think it’s really cool! I’ve always loved Sign Language, one of my ocs does Filipino Sign to communicate! I’ll definitely see if I can sneak something into the rewrite for you!

[askdaveyj]

Wanted to buy him a nice meal, we got sandwiches and then walked around

*cue sarah standing at the corner around Jacobi’s, running to the Refuge* *cue sarah colliding with davey*

*cue sarah nearly dropping the bail money bc davey forgot to tell them he was free*

i’m hallucinating, bye-

(@ask-sarahj)

(i could not figure how to write this wtf)

I- HI SARAH?-

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Elmer and "egg" - el

Truly I should have known

Okay so during Easter Elmer gets really really invested in dying eggs, it's like a day-long event for him. So many colors, so many little tricks like the wax and the color mixing and the stickers and the cracks, everything. The issue here is that he was raised in a "never waste food" household so then he just has like four dozen hard-boiled eggs that need to get eaten. He also happens to know a lot of egg recipes

[piedoesnotequalpi]

My unsolicited thoughts on the production of Newsies that I just saw

I overall enjoyed the show, but it was a mixed bag in some regards so. yeah!

Act 1

Crutchie and Jack were not nearly close enough (physically or emotionally) in the opening scene. Also, Crutchie's crutch was on the wrong side even though the actor playing him apparently has mobility issues?

Some newsies were dropped/sent off by their parents during Carrying the Banner! Amazing! Very neat to see this explicitly acknowledged! 100/10!

Jack was shorter than Katherine <3

Race was implied to be younger than Albert based on their pants styles???

Also, Albert paid for his papes, which was disappointing

This production's Les played the "I'm ten...almost" line very differently from Livesies Les (more a reluctant acknowledgement than aggressive), which I liked (I really liked this production's Les)

The way Pulitzer said "I don't look pretty" absolutely killed me. Also, he was incredibly fidgety during the office scene and Nunzio was visibly irritated by this. The Pulitzer and co scenes were generally really well blocked and acted.

Jack walked into the scene where Snyder shows up with a flower girl that he's implied to be flirting with, which I thought was an interesting addition. She spent most of the scene waiting and looking like she really wanted Jack to pay more attention to her (he was focused on Davey and Les) but did at least stick around long enough to distract Snyder.

"But I can see her - [embarrassed pause] - her legs."

The guy Medda addressed in That's Rich ("hey, baby, I was just talking about you") collapsed in his chair after the acknowledgement even though it's not a particularly positive interaction

During the pre-WWK scene, the ensemble was weirdly quiet the whole time.

Albert had to be held back after the "aw, just let 'em try!" bit

Now that I've seen the UKsies staging/delivery of "I say we save any interviews for a real reporter" I cannot go back to watching Davey deliver the line as directly as he did in this production.

Les tried to volunteer to visit Brooklyn but Davey pulled his hand down, which was hilarious

During the WWK reprise, they did a sort of chair assembly line to get the chairs offstage, which I thought was a good way to incorporate the set change into the choreography.

I wish Jack would've given Katherine more personal space in the post-Jacobi's scene, but it was at least better than Livesies

Also, this Jack overall did not have good pacing in his line delivery

Katherine absolutely crushed WWH and I loved the way she did the "it's a girl" section

I wish Crutchie had been better incorporated into the dances. Maybe it was something to do with the actor's disability, but there has to be a better solution than Crutchie sitting to the side/being offstage half the time during WWK and Seize the Day

After the line about skull-busting Albert stood up to fight the Delanceys and Mush had to pull him back down.

Davey didn't address people individually during the Seize the Day intro :(

Another UKsies related thought is that their choice to have the scabs explicitly be from the main group was a good one and I wish this production had done it too

Jack was really in the thick of it during the fight

As Jack was climbing to the rooftop before Santa Fe, he was audibly sobbing and he kept crying during Santa Fe, which almost made me cry.

A general thought is that the existence of Livesies seems to make directors afraid to do their own thing with the show.

Act 2

Jacobi was running the deli with his...wife? and she was helping patch up some of the newsies pre-KoNY

In this scene, but also in general, Race did not commit to the bit nearly hard enough - "wouldya lookit, that's me! I'm famous!" didn't really feel like a distraction tactic

The ensemble was divided into tap dancers and spoon players (they even had a "spoon captain" listed in the program) and the spoon players at one point played their spoons on the tap dancers' shoes

The Katherine interlude in KoNY was very oddly done and I am not sure what they were trying to accomplish (and she didn't even have tap shoes, which, what?)

The person I knew who was in the show had a dance highlight in the pre-Letter from the Refuge dance break! Yay!

Les was SO funny during the WWHR lead-up and as soon as the date exchange started Jack backed away slowly since he was standing between Davey and Les before.

The Bottom Line (reprise) lead-up was REALLY well-staged

When Katherine was revealed to be Pulitzer's daughter, Katherine was visibly upset at being used as a pawn and Hannah ended up trying to comfort her, with mixed success.

When Pulitzer mentioned Davey, Jack had already been knocked to the floor but he tried to get up and lunge at Pulitzer.

Katherine ran offstage when Pulitzer said "too bad you've no family, but you can't have mine"

The person with the Bronx sign kept the sign turned around until his line

Les was fully not at the rally, which, what?

Jack also didn't get into any physical altercations at the rally, which, again, what? Weird choices were made there!

Much like the pre-WWK scene, the ensemble was weirdly quiet.

This is probably an unoriginal thought about STBI, but I think a potential way to make the "or is it because I'm a girl?" line less weird is to have Katherine deliver it in a more resigned/frustrated than accusatory tone ("I'm dealing with this again? Really?") - her concern of being dismissed is not invalid, but I think it's less to do with Jack specifically and more to do with the world she lives in.

The way Jack said "if you weren't an heiress" killed me

There were fog machines during OAFA and the scene leading up to it, and that plus the lighting during the scene looked SO COOL

Davey and Jack had their arms around each other during the beginning of OAFA and Katherine just kinda stood next to them (close by, but still) which was. a choice.

During the lines "ready to fight us a war" and "talk about seizing the day" there were choreography callbacks to "either they gives us our rights or we gives them a war" and a section of the Seize the Day choreography.

Katherine kissed Jack on the cheek before she left, which was very cute

Davey and Jack stood face-to-face very close together with their hands on each other's shoulders at the end of OAFA and it was, again, certainly a (very gay) choice

Pulitzer terrified Bunsen out of the room during the phone call bit, which led into Bunsen presumably encountering Jack and co. and then escorting them in

Jack turned to Katherine instead of Davey after the Roosevelt handshake, which I disliked not for Javid reasons but just because Davey has context for the interaction and Katherine doesn't.

During the line "New York's got us, and we're family" Pulitzer stuck his head over Katherine's shoulder. Katherine was not particularly happy with this development, but I thought it was funny.

Katherine and Les hugged in the final scene!!!

Snyder being sent to jail in Broadway!Newsies always makes me miss 92sies!Crutchy's "make friends with the rats" line

Jack and Crutchie didn't hug until the very end (right after Jack and Davey hugged), which I thought was a weird choice to make. No one hugged Crutchie when he first entered either, which was sad and honestly made Crutchie feel less like part of the group :( (which is a staging choice I disagree with)

There was no curtain call, just slower-paced bows that extended from the curtain call music through the bow music. Also, someone juggled during the bows?? I need to figure out if I've met that person given how small the juggling community is in my neck of the woods.

...This kind of just turned into a stream of consciousness infodump. Bone apple teeth!

[blurglesmurfklaine]

*Jack and Davey sitting together at Mr. Jacobi’s Deli*

Katherine: aww how sweet! how long have you two been together?

Crutchie: they met eighteen hours ago

[doththymayo]

Albert: I swear to God if we actually win this strike, I will burn this deli to the ground!

Jacobi:

Albert: I will... Knock over a chair!

Jacobi:

Albert, sighing: I will channel my raging enthusiasm into ways to help my community.

[sunsetseason8910]

Them Brooklyn Boys Is Big pt.2

part one please read part one first, nothing here will make much sense. also I intend to make this a longer series, like at least 5 parts, but if I don't then I don't please don't track me down :)))

TW: violence and language, if graphic violence triggers you, plz don't read on. PUHLEASE. I'm begging you. It gets dark.

What would Make Jack and Race give up their heirarchy in Manhattan? or rather... Who?

Davey had finally started getting used to being a newsie. It definitely wasn't as nice as school, but he finally had friends. He finally had people who he could be himself around. They were family to him. Especially Jack, Davey's loving boyfriend. For once in Davey's life, he wasn't stressed over due dates for papers in school, he could relax, let loose, and hang out with his friends.

In Manhattan, all the newsies gathered at Jacobi's deli after selling. They got spread out all across the borough, so going to the deli gave them time to catch up with one another.

Davey was on his way to Jacobi's late one day after selling. Jack had nagged him to buy more papers to sell, and it definitely wasn't easy, But he had an extra few cents in his pocket, so he wasn't complaining.

He was strolling down the street, only a few blocks away from Jacobi's, when he was roughly grabbed by the arm. He abruptly tripped over his feet, and suddenly was hit with a blinding pain in his head, and he was out.

cold.

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"Where am I?" Davey said, as he awoke from his 'slumber.' He looked around the dimly lit room, and what he saw next caused him to feel the bile in his throat. His mouth went dry, the pain from his head fading.

"Spot, Spot, are you ok? can you hear me?" He asked the bloodied boy next to him. Spot had a black eye, bruises on his jaw, cuts all over his face, and blood seeping from a gash on his collarbone.

Spot nodded, not being able to speak due to the duct tape around his mouth. His face was bruised, blood crusted from the cuts. It pained Davey so much to see him like this.

"I'm gonna get us out of here," Davey said, before trying to undo the tight ropes that tied his arms behind his back. Spot shook his head, trying to motion for Davey to stop. "Hold on, my ropes are almost undone," Davey whispered as he struggled to undo the ropes. When he was younger, his father taught him how to maneuver out of ropes in situations like these. He just had to hope whoever tied them wasn't smart enough to tie it good enough.

He struggled more, until, "I'm free!" He whispered to Spot. "Let me take you tape off," Davey added, before carefully removing the tape tightly bound to Spot's bruised skin, trying to avoid as much pain for him as possible.

"They kidnapped us," Spot said between labored breaths, "because they were old leaders of the Manhattan newsies. They're gonna use us as leverage over Jack and Race to hand over Manhattan," Spot said, wincing from the growing pain of his bruises and cuts.

"You thought you could try to escape, Jacobs?" They heard a deep, growling voice enter the room.

we're screwed, Davey thought to himself.

I'll tag pt. 3 down below when I post it, and when the entire series is done I will do a seperate post with the links to every part for you all.

pt.3 T.B.B.I.B

Sorry bout the violence, but for some reason all my good ideas include it <333

[the-real-spot-conlon]

i have a fic request for u if ur still taking them. how about a javey sickfic where jack gets the flu and davey brings him soup or something?

This is the series I posted about earlier; I'm gonna post the Sprace sickfic next!

Binge watch and cuddles

Relationships: Javey, and a little bit of Sprace sprinkled in.

Tw: language and being sick I guess? Idrk

Jack had been getting sicker by the minute. He lied in bed, surrounded by tissues, Watching stupid romcoms. He picked up his phone and dialed his person.

"Daveyyyyy?" Jack whined, sounding very congested.

"Yes my love? Davey responded, the sound of keyboards typing in the background.

"I'm sick," Jack responded, and Davey didn't have to see him to know he was pouting.

"I'll be there in ten," Davey hung up, and Jack drifted off to a sick slumber. Davey left work as quickly as possible, his coworker Katherine taking over the rest of his work.

He drove quickly, pulling up to Jacobi's deli. He ordered chicken noodle soup for Jack, and a salad for himself. Davey got to the house, seeing their neighbors pull up on a motorcycle as well.

"Hey Spot! Hey Race!" Davey called out, as Race got off Spot's motorcycle, Spot following.

"Hey Davey! My boy!" Race called out as he ran over, then doing the masculine half hug thing.

"How are you guys?" Davey asked

"Pretty good, just went for a drive," Spot replied, taking his motorcycle helmet off.

"Yea I'm picking up soup for Jack, he's sick," Davey responded, holding the soup

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Davey got into bed next to Jack, kissing the top of his head gently. Jack awoke to the smell of chicken noodle soup wafting through the room, sitting on his bedside table.

"Get some rest my love," Davey whispered from beside him.

"Mkay, but after soup," Jack countered, picking up the bowl of soup.

"Alright love," Davey said, kissing Jack's forehead. Davey grabbed the remote and put on Jack's favorite disney movie, "Mulan" as they cuddled for the rest of the night.

The next morning, the doorbell rang, and Davey answered.

He found a pan of brownies with a sticky note that said, 'Spot made these, but he will never admit it.' Obviously from Race.