#marriott newsies

[crystaltreebee]

I’ve never seen this head canon so I’m just going to toss this out here-

intersex & genderqueer Buttons <3

mostly masc presenting but it fluctuates

[jackmkelly]

ALSO! i just love regional productions of newsies anyway if thats not clear and marriott’s jack and kath are now engaged ! huge!

[undescribed1mage]

modern buttons only wears clothing with buttons on them. btw

the vision ^^^

[chimeofthecomet]

for an art request... maybe marriott buttons? or any of the marriott girls? :0

the her,,,

[thats-our-cue-girls]

Day 7: Free Day

I don't know much about Marriott Newsies, but I wanted to draw these guys together.

[psychicwound]

the doctor who companions are stronger than i am because if i started travelling in the tardis the first place i'd go would be to see the 2017 marriott theatre production of newsies! the musical .

[girlsies-week-2023]

Remember, girlsies week starts next week !! (Also remember to check out my Guide to Girlsies, here !! The prompt list is pinned to this profile.)

[number1smallsfan]

a couple other newsies were understudied by women over the original productions, including “Talls” (pictured with Smalls), “Puddles,” and Sniper by Molly Jobe, Liana Hunt, and Ginna Claire Mason

the marriott theatre production in 2017 portrayed Jojo and Buttons explicitly as newsgirls, as well as brooklyn’s Joey and “Rafaela”

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A History of Girlsies

After a rise popularity of the 'girlsies' after Newises UK introduced Brooklyn as an all-female group of Newises, I decided to look deeper into the history of newsgirls at the time.

This is only for fun and a way for me to acknowledge the women at the time who until Newsies UK, were rarely given a spotlight in Newsies media.

Late 1800s

In 1868, there were roughly 300 newgirls and 2000 newsboys living in New York, but exact numbers were hard to state as newsies were 'at all hours in all public places’

Prior to mid 1800s, many newsgirls had to dress as boys in order to bypass social prohibitions

There were newsgirls of different backgrounds, education, class and age, but most were age 8-20

Many newsgirls were expert sellers, making names for themselves, having their own territories and gaining devoted customers

Multiple sources state the intelligence of the newsgirls being higher than that of the newsboys, likely having to work more than the newsboys to make the same wage

The media at the time presented newsgirls as pretty, witty and resourceful, whilst the newsgirls described themselves as real people in unfortunate situations

People within society had opposing reports on newsgirls, as some stated them to be stylish, respectable and intelligent, whilst others stated their crudeness, and raggedness and coarseness

There are many more mixed accounts, as others report newsgirls as heroic, behaving far better than the newsboys, respecting the city more and going out of their way to help civilians

The newsgirls were widely disliked as the idea of girls working on the streets was seen as evil and it was believed that the girls would put the newsboys out of business

It was also believed that the girls would be corrupted and lose their innocence and therefore should leave the work to the boys

This led many newgirls to work in less seen areas of the city, as the newsboys ran the city, making their presence known

What was most loved about the newsboys, such as their camaraderie and hardwork, was hated about the newsgirls

The girls often faced injustices and dangers far greater than the boys. Newsgirls as young as eleven were often harassed, robbed by male street workers, abducted and assaulted. This was used in the defence of banning all newsgirls under sixteen

The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

In the late 1880s, the community disliked the newsgirls so deeply that they wanted to get the girls off the street for good. It was passed that girls under 16 were no longer allowed to sell papers

They disguised this cruelty as an act of kindness to protect the girls and guide them to a life of motherhood and domesticity

The girls listened before one day fighting back, all swarming to the streets

A few years later, another attack on the newsgirls occured due to complaints from newsboys, publishers and patrons

Newsgirls were given warnings, and if they were to return to selling papers, then and their parents would be arrested and punished severely

By the end of the 19th century as few as 12 newsgirls under 16 were left in New York City

This ban extended to the newsboys in 1899, but little consequence was given and enforcement was low, unlike the ban on newsgirls

Newsgirls in New York:

Notable New York Newsgirls

Winnie and Sadie Horn (‘the soubrette newsgirls’)

In the late 1800s, they were two of the most famous newsgirls, working from 3pm to 3am everyday

Winnie was blind in one eye and dressed eccentrically, reporting to have spoken in Shakespearean English. She would scribble quotes from literature, such as the bible and Shakespeare, on her newspapers

Winnies loyal customers ranged from the New York City mayor to Theodore Roosevelt

Winnie was known as ‘winsome Winnie’ and ‘queen of the newsies’

They stated that them and their sisters were ‘born newsgirls’

Winnie was notable and had many mentions in the papers up until her death:

Mary Welter

Marywent to school until she was 13 and wanted to continue, but she had to support her family

She sold papers at twenty-third street ferry and upwards of 10 dollars a week ($328)

She would stay focused on business when and the competing newsboys inevitably began to act up throughout the day, she would take their customers

Newsies the musical

Before Newsies UK, there were no newsgirl characters. Despite claims of characters such as Smalls being women, they were dressed as newsboys and the Smalls Broadway actress, Laurie Veldheer, stated that Smalls is a boy.

Smalls in Newsies OBC:

With characters as old as 17 (Jack Kelly), and newsgirls of over 16 being allowed to work at this time, along with evidence of newsgirls taking part in the strike, there is no reason for newsgirls to have been left out of the story. There are arguments that may be made about Brooklyn being all women and the inaccuracies of this, but I pose to that how accurate is it for the newsies to be singing, dancing, and flying.

Brooklyn in Newsies UK:

A final note: This may seem redundant after titling this post ‘the history of girlsies’, but I feel the need to point it out: ‘Newsies’ isn’t a gendered term. Newsgirls throughout history have referred to themselves as ‘newsies’. There is no need to other newsgirls and separate them from the term. They are newsies and their gender doesn’t change that.

I hope this can shed some light on newsgirls and their history, and why their stories should be heard alongside the retellings of the newsboys.

Sources:

Extra: The history of America’s girl newsies

Backstage at “newsies” with Ben fankhauser and Tommy bracco

“The newsgirl question”: competing frames of progressive era girl newsies

Newsies vs. The World

[dustyy-angel]

***Only the least voted option will be eliminated***

Ngl I really struggled to find media for this years polls so please reblog with any propaganda you have for the polls <3

[noxexistant]

thinkin about them (marriott theatre newsies)

[ao3feed-newsies]

and there is someone out there just like me probably keeping to themselves

by, Undescribed1mage by Undescribed1mage Tommy Boy lets Buttons go after Race, before slowly following behind her — definitely not because she's a little (a lot) afraid of Race right now — as Splasher’s sobs slowly quiet, and they enter the Lodging House bedroom. She knows — staring at Splasher’s bloodstained face over Racetrack’s shoulder — that both Splasher and Buttons’ injuries are all her fault. If she hadn't convinced them to scab — (She worked herself sick over the pastor at the local church not approving of the strike and what that'll mean for herself and her friends by the time the Delanceys approach her with the offer — free papers for a month and a half if she scabs and brings other people with her — and she, like an idiot, takes it, dragging Splasher and Buttons down with her, because they're the most important people in her life, and —) — then they would've been fine. Maybe a little bruised, but everyone else would've been perfectly fine with helping them because they hadn't betrayed them like she had. Or — Tommy Boy, Buttons, and Splasher after the Fight. [Written for Day One of Girlsies Week 2023: Your Favorite Newsie as a Girl.] Words: 2213, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 21 of Newsies, Part 1 of Girlsies Week 2023, Part 4 of Annie's Post-Seize The Day Fight Fics !!! Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Tommy Boy (Newsies), Buttons (Newsies), Splasher (Newsies), Racetrack Higgins Relationships: Buttons & Tommy Boy (Newsies), Splasher & Tommy Boy (Newsies), Buttons & Splasher (Newsies) Additional Tags: Girlsies Week (Newsies), Girlsies Week 2023, Blood and Injury, Hurt/Comfort, References to Christianity, Religious Guilt, Mentioned Delancey brothers, Newsies!: the Musical Marriott Theater Production (2017), Newsies!: the Musical Maltz Jupiter Theater Production (2017), Newsies!: The Musical Arena Stage Theater Production (2019), Buttons Tommy Boy Splasher in that order, Everyone else is the uk run, Post-Seize The Day Fight (Newsies), scabs, Tommy Boy-centric, Sister-Sister Relationship read : https://ift.tt/t5gboCB - December 09, 2023 at 10:15AM

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

Rafaela and Joey are Brooklyn girlsies from Marriott Newsies :)

picture here

HUHHHH???? I thiught rafaela and joey came with uk’sies whatttt

[jackmkelly]

hello I am here 2 ask you if you have any marriott girls thoughts? :0

the newshes :’))

this actually made me dive ti refresh my memory on them didnt realize joey was tiffany tatreau LMFAO

but yeah i think they are all so cute and cool and so badass and their costumes are stunning and also☝️gfs

[undescribed1mage]

Adrienne Balducci (neé Storrs) as Buttons Davenport in King of New York from Marriott Theater's Newsies! (2017)

[girlsies-week-2023]

Information on some of my favorite Girlsies !!! For sillies !!!

(working title was me infodumping about girlsies under the excuse that it is relevent to the event)

I don't have the energy to go through & update this post at the moment, but @thegroundsofbrooklyn has a post here that has more info on the UK Brooklyn Girls !!!

Starting out with our number one, the original girlsie: Charlie (Hard Promises) !!!

Charlie was the original love interest for Jack in Hard Promises, and she was a newsie !! Her story was that she was living in a house of prostitution with her aunt (with her aunt trying to shield her from as much as possible to stop her from going into that life / being exposed to it) and she was planning to (and did!) go with Jack to Santa Fe at the end.

Next up: Smalls (Papermill - Broadway) (Manhattan / Possibly The Bronx) !!!:

I know that whether or not Smalls is a girl is up to interpretation but I am interpreting her as a girl & including her in this list (same with Sniper).

Smalls is a Bronx newsie (as implied by her yelling so's da Bronx during Brooklyn's Here), but she's still allowed in Manhattan (hence being there for KoNY in some versions), so she's probably allowed to wander around on her own.

According to Liana Hunt, she lives in a family with at least one parent and a ton of brothers who all work to support them, so she's sort've eager to be one of the boys in that sense — she's also super tough.

Talls !!! (Broadway) (Manhattan / Possibly The Bronx):

Talls was Caitlyn Caughell's newsie whenever she was on for that track. I have no information on her besides the fact that she was played by Caitlyn Caughell & is probably a play on her height of some kind — + also being a play on Smalls. Smalls & Talls <3

Sniper !!! (Tour) (Manhattan / Possibly The Bronx):

I'm going to be mixing in other backstories for this because as far as I'm aware Sniper's the only newsie on that list with a backstory that isn't from their actress ? + she has more involvement in the show when she isn't a girl so I'm going off that

But according to Alex Wong — Sniper's last name is Wah, and she's the daughter (son in this backstory but it's okay) of Sam Wah, who owns the laundromat above Jacobi's (the sign of which can be seen in the pre-uksies Jacobi scenes). She's named after her 'incredible aim' with a slingshot.

In certain versions, she's one of the scabs, the last one to throw down her papers, and the one to go 'Ah, what the hell? My father's gonna kill me anyway!' in the proshot. In the tour, she was also the one to yell so's da bronx.

Puddles !!! (Tour) (Manhattan / Possibly The Bronx):

Puddles is in the same group as Talls in the sense that there is like no canon lore about her & there isn't even any information besides her name and the fact that she was played by Melissa Steadman Hart during the tour. However she has the cutest nickname and deserved to be included in this list.

Marriott! Buttons !!! (Marriott) (Manhattan):

According to Adrienne Storrs, the actress for Buttons, she's been a newsie for three years. Her parents are poor Italian immigrants that don't speak English, so she works to support them. She was convinced to start selling Newspapers by JoJo after being caught pickpocketing on the street.

Buttons & JoJo are best gal pals, she sees Specs as a younger brother figure (she's always looking out for him), and Race and Albert are her favorite people to joke around with!

She has (had?) a rich boyfriend that went to jail for forgery a bit before the strike, so she's a little heartbroken during it, but she's 'continuing to live her life and she has the best newsie friends'.

She has a really positive mindset in general.

She also (along with JoJo) checked Katherine out when she walked into Jacobi's and later taught her how to Irish dance during KoNY with JoJo !!!

Marriott! JoJo !!! (Marriott) (Manhattan):

According, once again, to Adrienne Storrs, JoJo (who's real name is Josephine) is 'one tough cookie'. She was originally a pickpocket, but Jack found her and took her under her wing for ten percent of her earnings when she was almost twelve. She was one of the original newsies in the Manhattan group, and after three years she started seeking out other girl newsies (& that's when Buttons came along !!). She's been a newsie for about five years, 'not too far behind how long Jack had been selling'.

She has an Irish father and a Romanian mother and they were circus artists that came to America with P.T Barnum in the 1870s. She was born in 1882 (making her seventeen at the time of the strike) and she was raised around a circus.

Rafaela (Marriott) (Brooklyn):

Once again, according to Adrienne Storrs, Rafaela's parents moved from Spain to Puerto Rico in the 1880s and she was born there in 1885. They moved to New York City when she was five and she's very close with her brothers, who were six and eight at the time. All three children became newsies at the same time, being expected to work as much as their parents did.

She didn't go to school, she taught herself how to read and speak English, using her time as a newsie as a teaching device. She's super tough, and she had to grow up really fast. She 'has a strong sense of community with her family and fellow Brooklyn Newsies'.

Joey (Marriott) (Brooklyn):

You guessed it, information yet again from Adrienne Storrs!

Joey is Racetrack Higgins' cousin, and she's super positive. She's also secretly a really good fighter.

Hildy (Marriott) (Brooklyn):

You'll never guess where this info is from.

Hildy is German, and her parents own a sausage shop, and she likes to get into trouble.

Honorable mention to Nancy, Hazel, and Muriel from Newsies Jr.

I don't have the energy to read through all of newsies jr rn to find out which lines they have, however I can tell you off the top of my head that they are very supportive of Katherine and probably also on the younger side (because. Newsies Jr. Obviously).

If anyone who's played them would like to mention their backstory in the rbs or in this accs ask box, that would be lovely !!!

Spot Conlon (UK) (Brooklyn):

Using Lillie-Pearl's backstory for Spot here, because Clarice never got the opportunity to share hers if she had one :(

Lillie-Pearl's backstory for Spot is that her parents were Irish and African American immigrants living in Seneca Village.

Spot in Uksies is very close with Davey !!! According to Lillie-Pearl, she doesn't call him Davey, she calls him David, and in her cameo description she added 'making rhymes with Davey' into her list of things she enjoyed. She is also very close with her girls (obviously), specifically Lucky & Stray, who she did the handshake with depending on what point in the show it was. She also liked Race, depending on the day.

(She also probably isn't on awful terms with most of the Manhattan newsies, especially if they're girls.)

Lucky (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Lucky doesn't have a lot of canon lore too her HOWEVER I can tell you that she used to do the handshake with Spot back when she existed, was called Tops for some performances, AND her real name is Eliza !!! She also interacted with Scope a lot during The Rally.

Mack (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Mack's real name is Jeanie MacDonald, but she shortened it down to Mack because she didn't like her name.

She's a Scottish immigrant whose family moved to the U.S (just North of New York) to start a farm, but a plague of locusts destroyed the farm, so they had to move into the city for work.

She couldn't stand being stuck in their one bedroom cramped apartment, so her father suggested that she take up work as a Newsie.

Splint (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Splint's arm is in a Splint !!! For some mystery reason that definitely isn't because Bobbie's hand was injured at the time of the first preview. Definitely not.

She doesn't appear after The Rally, which is because — according to Bobbie — she falled down & died :( (Bobbie needed 2 be there as Hannah)

Also her real name is Splinty McSplint.

(Bobbie also said that if she were to have a love interest it would be Buttons.)

Scope (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

I have no canon info about Scope besides the fact that she has the world's cutest pigtails and hung around Lucky at The Rally a lot :(

Ritz (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Ritz' real name is Rita, and her nickname comes from ritz crackers and also Lucy's last characters name !! That's all the canon info we have on her as far as ik :(

Stray (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Stray's nickname comes from her feeding all of the stray animals of New York !!!

She is related to Specs in some way (probably siblings, considering the fact that Sam & Immie are).

She becomes a Bowery Beauty when she's older, and her real name is from a newsgirl turned dancer but Immie doesn't remember who that is — the closest I got in my research is Lillian Russell, who wasn't a newsgirl but yk close enough.

(Her love interest would've been Mike !!)

Pips (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Again, no canon information on Pips as far as I'm aware, besides the fact that she is literally adorable

[undescribed1mage]

I DO !!!

Okay so.

Joey (who is Race's cousin, 4 anyone who doesn't know :)) is specifically related 2 JB Race. I know that she'd technically be related 2 Marriott Race but her being related to JB Race makes the most sense in my writer head (also he's the Race I've been writing into this fic so) !! She says oyster the same way that Race does, and she's also the newsie that Spot sends after the seize the day fight <3 Her real name is Josephine !! She's about sixteen at the time of the strike :) & a lot of her clothes are hand me downs from Hildy

Hildy was the Brooklyn leader before Spot was, & in the canon in my head she isn't a newsie at the time of the strike !! Her real name is Hildegard, and she's one of around three brooklyn newsies with parents !!

Rafaela is from Queens !!! She sells in Brooklyn because like. all of her friends are there, and she stays in the lodging house at least two nights a week !! She, Ritz & Pips are the youngest brooklyn Newsies (not really a hc since she's canonically abt 14 but still) & she's. closest with Joey out of all of the brooklyn Newsies (& she was super close with Hildy) !!

hands you a microphone. do you have any marriott brooklyn girls thoughts.?

takes the microphone sheepishly

HELLO !! UMMM SOOOO,, UNTIL ABOUT A MINUTE AGO I DID NOT KNOW,,, WHO THEY WERE ,,,, THE CLAIM IN MY BIO IS FALLING SHORT ,,,,,

But you know what now the knowledge of EVEN MORE girlsies to hoard in my little collection has actually changed the course of the day i have much more research to do into new blorbos. If anyone has a video recording i would be forever grateful 🙏🙏

Y'know you've come up a lot in that little search no pressure but i may hand the microphone right back over to begin the data collection,, do you have any marriot brooklyn girls thoughts