#newsies original broadway cast

[thefandomchaos]

I’ve seen this done for Livesies but OBC need appreciation as well and because we all still have trouble telling the boys apart, lets add more into the mix so you learn to recognize who is who in every single version of the cast

I am happy to admit I’ve learn to recognize all the newsies for OBC and Livesies (+ Tour)

This is the Newsies boys opening night of Broadway; I did include Smalls even though she’s not in any of the pictures.

Jack Kelly: Jeremy Jordan

Davey Jacobs : Ben Frankhauser

Les Jacobs: Lewis Goro & Mathew Schechter

Crutchie: Andrew Keenan-Bolger

RaceTrack Higgins: Ryan Breslin (u/s Davey)

Albert DaSilva/Bill: Garett Hawe (u/s Davey & Crutchie)

Finch: Aaron J. Albano

Tommy Boy/Spot Conlon: Tommy Bracco

Mike/Morris Delancey: Mike Faist (u/s Jack)

Ike/Oscar Delancey: Brendon Stimson (u/s Jack)

Specs: Ryan Steele

Henry: Kyle Coffman

Jojo/Darcy: Thayne Jasperson

Elmer: Evan Kazprzak (u/s Seitz & Bunsen)

Buttons: Jess LeProtto

Romeo: Andy Richardson (u/s Crutchie)

Sniper: Alex Wong

Mush: Ephraim Sykes

Barney Peanuts: Jack Scott (Swing)

Knobs: Michael Fatica (Swing)

Katherine Plumber: Kara Lindsey

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Smalls/Hannah/Nun: Laurie Veldheer

[iwasonlydancing]

Song of the Day #119

"Santa Fe" performed by Jeremy Jordan from Newies (Original Broadway Cast Recording), 2012

[jilllovesmike]

Newsies days. Look at those guns!

[broadway-shenanigans]

Baby Elliot 🥹

Laura Osnes and Corey Cott supporting each other while receiving their portraits.

[whatisgeminitaylisteningto]

carrying the banner from newsies the Broadway musical

GeminiTay is listening to Carrying The Banner from Newsies (Original Broadway Cast Recording)!

what do you think she is listening to? send an ask!

[emmaspersonaldiary]

If I had the original cast of newsies on Broadway recording on vinyl I would play it so much No one in the house can think of anything other than newises

[residentoddity]

every musical i like ranked !!!!! idk why im posting this tbh I WANT TO

1. RENT (original broadway cast)

2. March of The Falsettos (off-broadway)

3. In Trousers (1979 ver)

4. Falsettos revival

5. Falsettoland (off-broadway)

6. Newsies

7. Carrie 1988

8. Spring Awakening

9. Wicked

10. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

honorable mentions : women on the verge of a nervous breakdown and zombie prom (which i just got into today lolz)

[a-leg-of-lambb]

My mom just told me she saw the original broadway touring cast of newsies when it came to my city I am not okay. She should’ve brought 7 year old me

[eurydicees]

i've watched way too many wicked bootlegs in the past few weeks and so. reviews of the elphabas i've watched so far (in alphabetical order by last name, this is NOT a ranking).

stephanie j block

she's good! not my favorite i've seen, but i did enjoy her performance overall. i liked her scenes at shiz with doctor dillamond a lot. i really liked how she made the role her own; not sure if it's her singing voice or general speaking intonation or some combination of it all but something felt very distinct from the other elphabas i've watched. no good deed was CRAZY. also her chemistry with sebastian arcelus (fiyero) is solid--i looooooved as long as you're mine. given that they're married this makes sense lmfao, but still thought i'd mention it. fiyero's little spellcasting hand motions and elphaba scoffing and rolling her eyes is actually adorable. another side note but i will also say that annaleigh ashford as glinda was WAY better than i expected and i'm a little obsessed with her.

lilli cooper

ok im gonna be a little harsh here, i'm sorry but i didn't love this cast as a whole (kara lindsay as glinda, jerad bortz as fiyero). cooper had some really good acting moments (particularly in popular and in for good) and i liked her chemistry with glinda (more about lindsay later though) but i just don't think she sang the part quite as well as anyone else in this post. i liked cooper in spring awakening, and looking at her other roles, i'm sure she kills it in those! she just wasn't elphaba for me.

jennifer dinoia

VERY good!!! loved her chemistry with kara lindsay (glinda). unfortunately everything abt kara lindsay is so deeply newsies to me and this was very distracting the entire time. which is not either of their faults so not a fair point of judgment. anyways. overall i really liked how they played off each other. dinoia is super underrated imo. i will say i think her defying gravity isn't the best out there, but i really love her acting overall and the wizard and i was great. she was also so cute in dancing through life so points for that. she does hopeful really well, which is really neat to see in an elphaba. also i found my old playbills later and shes one of the elphabas i saw live! so that's neat.

eden espinosa

quite enjoyed her!!! really strong belt. also quite enjoyed this glinda (megan hilty), but that's a different post. also this fiyero (derrick williams) slaps. damn this cast is just really good together. anyways back to espinosa. her acting is so good i love her. the toss toss with fiyero was fucking adorable and then the immediate switch to outrage over dr dillamond was crazy. she and hilty also have a really good dynamic i love it. alaym was also solid ("you can see houses flying through the sky but not that?" n her little laugh? man. i love elphaba). i think espinosa's biggest strength is her acting--she's a crazy good singer, too, don't get me wrong, but her acting all throughout is absolutely stellar.

mandy gonzalez

VERY much enjoyed her!!!! absolutely incredible as long as you're mine with andy karl--i think they might have my favorite rendition of that song so far. fabulous no good deed as well. i liked how she fell into the last pose at the end of that song. definitely a favorite version of i'm not that girl. took a minute for me to warm up to her acting wise, honestly, but i was very much convinced by the end.

idina menzel

watched her and kristin chenoweth and norbert leo butz and joel grey's last show together, which was a mistake because i am in hysterics. oh my god. so side note but while obviously there are many actresses who have done the role, kristin chenoweth is THE GLINDA. like she's THE glinda. there are other glindas, and there are good glindas, but kc is THE glinda. anyways. okay. sobbing. okay. so idina menzel is , like, the gold standard for elphabas obviously. she's the original broadway elphaba, the defying gravity notes are hers, she's one of the best to ever step on the gershwin wicked stage. i loooooved her passion, and i actually liked how it wasn't always plagued with defensiveness or anger. her no good deed SLAYS though. she did break a few times but i'm giving her a free pass because it was the last obc cast performance and everyone on that stage and in the room was falling apart emotionally. anyways. she's the gold standard, she really is. no words will do her justice. god. im normal about wicked.

dee roscioli

she was good! idk not super notable/memorable to me? i really did like her overall!! she's very skilled and i can appreciate that for sure. just not the best imo. dynamic with clifton hall (fiyero) was really good though, so win for both of them for that.

willemijn verkaik

FAVE FAVE FAVE. i loooooveeed her. so good. absolutely one of the best i've seen so far. her singing is absolutely showstopping. after defying gravity i had to pause and scream alone in my kitchen for a bit. her no good deed is also incredible. she also is so clearly theatre through and through--her balance of strong acting and INSANE singing was really well done. outstanding as long as you're mine, too (kyle dean massey as fiyero was also really good in that; and later the "i wish i could be beautiful for you" and "touch, i don't mind" moments made me feel insane about them). her chemistry with katie rose clarke (glinda) was also quality. fr had me thinking maybe this time glinda would go with her. maybe this time it would work out. oh and her scenes with nessa were also outstanding. for good literally sent me into hysterical sobbing so points for that. god. overall she 10000% was part of the re-igniting of my brainrot over wicked. she's so good. man. god. ok. im normal.

donna vivino

first off, did NOT know she was the original young cosette, so that's irrelevant but super cool! anyways, REALLYYYYY loved her. great dynamic with fiyero (not sure of the actor in this one), and the way she played off glinda in for good specifically was *chef's kiss*. no good deed had me absolutely SOLD on her. i think she has the best rendition of that one that i've seen. moments that remind me that i fucking love THEATRE!!!!! overall she has an incredible voice, and her acting was good as well! had me shaking and trembling during elphaba's biggest scenes (no good deed and for good in particular). i also really liked that she clearly wasn't just trying to be a carbon copy of idina menzel (as some replacements definitely do with the original actor in all roles in any show)--she instead definitely made the role her own, and i really appreciated the choices she made both vocally and acting wise.

jessica vosk

oh she had me wrapped around her finger from line ONE. her voice is absolutely gorgeous, and her acting is spot on. she has so many little gestures that i loved, little small smiles or scoffs or whatever that just felt so fitting. she embodied the character so well. her no good deed made me want to stand up and scream even though i am so cozy in bed. chemistry with glinda (allison bailey) was really solid; popular was really fun. also just generally speaking and as huge side note, her story of how she rose to broadway success makes me feel a little crazy. anyways. maybe i'll try to see her in hell's kitchen. i LOVE her voice.

[aarontveitisonfire]

Broadway Center Stage: Schmigadoon!

 Eisenhower Theater, The Kennedy Center

Based on the hit Apple TV series!

Introducing Schmigadoon!, the world-premiere musical of the Emmy Award®–winning hit show. New York doctors Josh and Melissa go backpacking in a last-ditch attempt to save their failing relationship, but instead get lost in the woods and end up trapped in Schmigadoon, a magical town that’s a classic Golden Age musical come to life!

Jan. 31 - Feb. 9, 2025

Price Range

$59.00 – $299.00

Runtime

TBA

Program

Based on the hit Apple TV series!

Introducing Schmigadoon!, the world-premiere musical of the Emmy Award®–winning hit show. New York doctors Josh and Melissa go backpacking in a last-ditch attempt to save their failing relationship, but instead get lost in the woods and end up trapped in Schmigadoon, a magical town that’s a classic Golden Age musical come to life! Featuring hits from the Grammy Award®–nominated score—including the Emmy®-winning “Corn Puddin’”—plus exciting new songs!

The Apple TV show Schmigadoon! was executive produced by Saturday Night Live creator, executive producer, and 2021 Kennedy Center Honoree Lorne Michaels. Tony Award® winner Christopher Gattelli (Death Becomes Her, Newsies) will direct and choreograph the new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Emmy® winner and Grammy® nominee Cinco Paul. Schmigadoon! is produced by special arrangement with Broadway Video.

The show will star two-time Tony® nominee Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice, Broadway Center Stage: Spamalot) as Josh Skinner, Sara Chase (The Great Gatsby, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) as Melissa Gimble, Emmy® winner and Tony® nominee Kevin Del Aguila (Yellow Face, Some Like It Hot) as the Reverend Layton, Ann Harada (Cinderella, Avenue Q) reprising her role from the Apple Original series as Florence Menlove, McKenzie Kurtz (The Heart of Rock and Roll, Wicked) as Betsy McDonough, Isabelle McCalla (Water for Elephants, Broadway Center Stage: Footloose) as Emma Tate, Javier Muñoz (Hamilton, In the Heights) as Doc Lopez, Tony® nominee Brad Oscar (Something Rotten!, Mrs. Doubtfire) as Mayor Menlove, Tony ® nominee Emily Skinner (Suffs, The Cher Show) as Mildred Layton, and Ryan Vasquez (The Notebook, Hamilton) as Danny Bailey.

Book, music, and lyrics by Cinco Paul

Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli

Scenic design by Scott Pask

Lighting design by Jen Schriever

Sound design by Haley Parcher

Music direction by Steven Malone

Orchestrations by Doug Besterman

Music supervision by David Chase

Casting by The Telsey Office

This production will feature the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

Jeffrey Finn is the Artistic Director and Executive Producer of Broadway Center Stage

[racetracks-cigar]

𝚁𝙴𝚀𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝚂 𝙸 𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝙳𝙾

Livesies

Uksies

1992

Original broadway cast

Broadway actors from newsies

Don’t be afraid to request I’m open to doing pretty much anything ❤️❤️

[iwasonlydancing]

Song of the Day #154

"Watch What Happens (Reprise)" performed by the original Broadway cast of Newsies, Newsies (Original Broadway Cast Recording), 2012

[jack-kellys]

k so yall voted to see my 2023 final essay for a class called london in performance. which wasnt too serious. basically i compared the national theatre's phaedra [which i did not like that much tbh. one of the lines in my paper is "to truly send the criticism home, compared to the white critics who praised the play with four stars, Polish editor Andrzej Lukowski and Pakistani critic Arifa Akbar are the ones to only give two stars on the story that centers an illegal immigrant (The Stage)." just saying] as an adaptation of a classic greek play to the west end's general cash-in commercialization. and then my argument was that the center of that pendulum is somehow fucking newsies @ the troub im so sorry.

HERE ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS:

first of all i got to cite myself as like. an expert which was SO funny

"To preface, because of my five years of close knowledge about this subject matter, its multiple stagings, scripts, and casts, I am well aware that this musical as a whole is quite average."

importantly, my definition of a revival in this paper is "creating something accessible to a modern audience for the sake of improving and adapting an original source material into a performance". if it doesnt improve and/or adapt it then it fails imo

"Lines [in the script] that hold weight are sort of dropped, in favor of keeping the show hopeful at all times. The reflection lies in the younger generation taking hold of a new age, rather than in workers rights, child poverty and abuse, and unification.  Newsies at Wembley Park, the first professional revival and first iteration of the musical outside of the United States, flips this as a performance."

i called newsies 2012/livesies staging "left-right up-down" like a video game combo lmfao

"Wembley Park’s revival inserts viewers into the action of the city by default, but also the events that befall the newsboys.... Two police officers stalk in front of the audience as a scene with a new sense of impending doom plays out on the stage. The strikebreaking battle is... level with many of the audience’s seats, and boys escape officers and grown men through the aisles helping each other stand upright while shouts of “Move, move!” are called out .... as a pair hurry away up a ladder behind my aisle seat."

"The expansive take on staging (since as I said before, the musical itself is average) almost takes the place of design. ... Pulitzer’s desk resides on top of a platform of newspaper stacks, emphasizing his position in the hierarchy over the children selling those papers especially as the newsboys push it on with much effort. The towers are made to look like black metal with rust and peels. The lighting is white and natural during scenes. The ensemble’s costumes look more similar to each other, making them appear more unified visually compared to Broadway. The design is in the ensemble’s interactions, dance, and fluid movement through the city of the show, letting the performance and the dancers speak for themselves."

then mandatory michael section:

"What struck me the most watching it had to be Jack’s casting, and new character positionality within the context of the story. Never before has Jack Kelly been a Black newsboy union leader, not in any professional production. Played by Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, Jack’s role was much more electric. His fear of leading the strike became more personal, his baggage with the reform center gained more onstage intersectionality, his relationship with Katherine became even more complex and out of reach. It changes many of those past dropped lines, it made me hear lines differently than I had used to. It’s a more effective reflection that makes the events in the story a bit more tangible to an audience that could have initially been caught up in the grandiose dance numbers- not to mention the performance opening amidst strikes nationwide."

best part:

jack-kellys. "Welcome to..." Jack-Kellys, 23 Jan 2023, 3:46AM, this-is-what-i-mean-by-five-years-of-close-experience. 

[purebananafish]

IM TIRED OF THIS

IM TIRED THAT WHENEVER I TALK ABT NEWSIES THEY THINK IM TALKING ABT THE BROADWAY.

NO! IM TALKING ABOUT NEWSIES 1992 THE ORIGINAL THAT HAD CHRISTIAN BALE, DAVID MOSCOW, MAX CASELLA, AND GABRIEL DAMON!!!!!!

NOT THAT STUPID FUCKING BROADWAY!! THE BROADWAY SUCKS THE ORGINAL IS BETTER ITS THE OG ITS BETTER THE SONGS WERE BETTER THE CAST WAS BETTER THE CHARACTERS WERE BETTER EVERUTHING WAS BETTER!!

IDEK WHO TF JACKS LI IS IN THE BROADWAY I ONLY KNOW SARAH JACOBS!!! THE SISTER OF DAVID AND LES JACOBS!!!

AND I KNOW THAT BRIAN DENTON WROTE THISE PAGES!! NOT WHOEVER THAT IS IN THE BROADWAY!!!!!

FUNNY HOW NEWSIES BROADWAY IS POPULAR BUT NOT THE OBVIOUSLY BETTER VERSION!!

i sound like a fucking nerd bro ok bye

[chaifootsteps]

additional casting for hazbin confirmed by deadline:

lucifer - jeremy jordan (tony-nominee best known for newsies and gatsby)

lute - jessica vosk (former elphaba in wicked)

carmilla carmine - daphne ruben-vega (another theater icon, original cast of rent and was in the in the heights movie)

sera - patina miller (tony winner known for pippin and sister act)

“saint peter” (a new character who hasnt been leaked i dont think?) - darren criss (blaine on glee, also done a lot on broadway. he was also in very potter musical)

source: https://deadline.com/2023/11/hazbin-hotel-premiere-date-prime-video-guest-cast-trailer-1235635095/

I can't even begin to imagine how much this thing must have cost.