#notes the newsie

[theatreism]

JEREMY JORDAN timeline (broadway, off-broadway & west end)

[livesincerely]

Jack’s hauling all six feet of Davey’s deadweight back to his car, trying to shove his lanky, drunken, noodle limbs into the passenger seat—Jesus Christ, he really is all leg, ain’t he?—when Davey kisses him.

Jack freezes. Goes perfectly still, frozen in place, as panic pierces his chest like a shot to the heart.

Because Davey is drunk, drunker than drunk, really, his mouth warm and soft and a little sloppy against his own. He tastes like salt and tequila and that last round of fireball shots Racetrack ordered for the table, tastes like everything Jack’s ever wanted and nothing he’s allowed to have.

Davey makes soft, unhappy noise in the back of his throat, then loops clumsy arms around Jack’s neck and tugs him closer: stubborn, insistent, and drunk, so fucking drunk, because Jack knows better than to think he’d ever do this sober.

But he smells so good—like coconut conditioner and the fancy fabric softener he insists on and Davey—and he fits so perfectly in Jack’s arms and he’s kissing Jack like he wants him. Right here in the parking lot, half in and half out of the passenger seat of Jack’s car, with nothing but the buzzing street lamps overhead to notice Jack’s heart cracking into tiny little pieces.

Davey sighs against his lips, his fingers curling gently around the nape of his neck, and Jack knows.

Knows he shouldn’t. Knows it’s a mistake. Knows that Davey—clever, gorgeous, wonderful Davey—won’t remember this in the morning, and Jack will never, not ever forget.

But he’s only human. He’s just a man, hopelessly in love with his best friend.

And for just a moment, he kisses him back.

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Jack forces himself to pull away. Davey looks up at him with big, blue pleading eyes, his mouth wet and red and perfect, his cheeks pink from the rasp of Jack’s stubble.

“Why’d you stop?” Davey mumbles, a swirly curl of hair falling over his forehead. Jack’s heart skips in his chest. “You don’t want to kiss me?”

“Dave, I—“ What can he say? What can he possibly say?

He needs to apologize, needs to beg for forgiveness because Davey might be drunk off his ass but Jack absolutely is not, had a half a beer and a single shot, so there’s no excuse to fall back on. There’s no excuse for this.

Davey pats him on the shoulder with all the coordination of a wet mop head.

“‘S okay,” he says. “I don’t want to kiss you either.”

Jack’s pretty sure a baseball bat to the back of the head would hurt less.

He wants to stumble away as quickly as he can, wants to see if Kath and Sarah are still out front waiting for their Uber and if they’d take Davey home instead if he asked really, really nicely and walked away before they could ask him any questions.

Instead he sucks in a steadying breath. Carefully reaches around Davey to buckle in his seatbelt.

“There’s this guy,” Davey says, hushed like he’s sharing a secret. “I wanna kiss him all— all the time. He’s handsome and funny and way smarter than he gives himself credit for and— and he’s just the best, you know?”

Jack does not know. Jack would rather be force-fed his own liver than know any of this.

He starts manually lifting Davey’s legs into the footwells. Tucks his feet in so they don’t block the car door.

“His name’s Jack.”

Jack stops. Wonders, for just a second, if maybe someone did hit him over the head, actually, because—

Because the last ten minutes have been a fucking rollercoaster and he might have the world’s first genuine case of emotional whiplash, but—

His name is Jack.

His name is Jack, right?

[jay-birds-fly]

Oh wow, this character is really neat and can sing really well! I wonder who could possibly play them-

Huh? I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in anything-

[krimellowarden]

Funny How Disney Understands These Strikers but Not Their Own Employees

[gojoiskira]

I have 100 problems and 99 of them would be solved if i could sing like Jeremy Jordan

[ashcadence]

As a female tenor, you can pry Santa Fe out of my cold dead hands

[turtonsteroids]

I never actually watched the Tangled series, but I liked Ready As I'll Ever Be and I hadn't heard it in a while, so I went back and listened to it again and I was like "Wait is this the guy who played Light in the Death Note musical?"

Turns out he is. But not only that, he also played Gatsby in the original Broadway production of The Great Gatsby, Jack Kelly in several productions of Newsies, J.D. in a production of Heathers and fucking Lucifer Morningstar in Hazbin Hotel like hello how did I not notice this till now

Mad respect for Mr. Jeremy Jordan

[jackmkelly]

a jack and kath who start to argue over little things that just become a big deal simply because of their class divide could be so interesting and should be talked about more i think.

i think (i Know) kath does Try to be consciously aware. she knows end of the day she grew up with almost everything handed to her and the newsies grew up with nothing. that still wont stop fights where jacks main point is she just doesnt get it & she will never get it.

for example a comment about his shoelaces that dont match that was meant to be harmless & funny turning into a fight when he defensively brings up the fact shes in a different pair of shoes for each outfit. they’re Going to clash sometimes because they were born in two different worlds. they’re very sweet and in love but to act like they dont clash sometimes kinda ignores the whole argument that lead to their first kiss to begin with LMFAO

[atomicengineerdetective]

I've been watching Hazbin Hotel in prime. Just watched episode 5 and I gotta ask

Why, oh, WHY DON'T I SEE MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT "MORE THAN ANYTHING" WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE HAZBIN HOTEL MUSIC???

Like I get it, the song before it "Hell's Greatest Dad" Is a bop reminiscent of other music from the era its parodying. I loved it.

BUT why are you only putting clips of that song when this MASTERPIECE comes a few minutes after

I honestly don't even know where to begin with this song. The visuals are beautiful, especially when we get moments like this where you can just see the absolute LOVE this man has for her daughter is so sweet and Heartwarming I just-

The voices are fenomenal but what else can you expect from the broadway talents of Erika Henningsen and Jeremy Jordan.

There is also the whole Symbolism with passing the baton to the next generation and stuff. I- I can't even get into the specifics right now Im too emotional.

But above all else THE LYRICS

ESPECIALLY THAT LAST ONE

"I'M GRATEFUL YOU ARE MY DAUGHTER/FATHER MORE THAN ANYTHING"

DO YOU WANT ME TO CRY?? CAUSE I AM. I AM BAWLING MY EYES OUT RIGHT NOW.

It's just so fucking beautiful man. Probably the best song I will hear all year. Obviously my favorite from Hazbin.

[fleetn-crab85]

hello again everyone! I just want to thank everyone who interacted with the last post about the LEGO Newsies! I genuinely wasn't expecting it to take off like that! A lot of you asked for more, so this is a side by side between the actual Seize The Day dance break and our LEGO version. I hope you all enjoy!

ALSO: I'm going to be using the tag #lego newsies for any more posts about it!

Feel free to leave a comment or reblog with what you'd like to see next!

[mushiimune]

any javid crumbs you can spare for a poor orphan pls

Hm. ok🫡

This is from the last Newsies writing doc I worked on, circa October 2023. It's an unfinished little one-shot, and goes on for a while longer than this, but who would I be if I didn't cut it off before it starts getting good?

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Untitled - 2023

“I just happened to be in the area” my ass, David thinks, but doesn’t say, preoccupied with hurrying out of the schoolyard as fast as possible. He doesn’t want Jack anywhere near that awful place and those awful people, both for his own good and for the sake of David’s pride a little, too. The illusion that school isn’t hell on Earth for him hasn’t yet been shattered in Jack’s eyes, and David’s fully intent on keeping it that way for as long as possible. He doesn’t want Jack to worry about him, either.

Once they’re far enough away that David considers them in the clear, he relaxes significantly. Jack notices the change in his demeanor, but makes a point of not mentioning it. It isn’t often anymore that he gets to see David, hence why he loitered in the area for the better part of an hour waiting for the school bell to ring just to talk to his friend for a while. The last thing he wants is to dominate the conversation with uncomfortable topics, no matter how curious he is about why exactly the second emotion that played over his face when he caught sight of Jack at the gates was horror.

They talk about things that have nothing to do with school. Jack complains offhandedly about the chill, to which David scoffs.

“I could name a thing or two that doesn’t do you any favors,” said David.

“Oh, yeah? Go on, then.”

David shook his head. “You’re not gonna listen to me anyway. What’s the point of giving you good, honest advice if you’re not going to take it?”

“If that’s really what you thought, Dave, you’d never speak a word to me again.”

David rolled his eyes, unable to bite back a smile.

“If you REALLY want to know, I think you could dress a little more according to the temperature.”

“What’s wrong with the way I dress?” Jack’s brow creased and he looked down at himself.

“Nothing,” David corrected quickly. “It’s just… here, stop for a second.”

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[livesincerely]

I need to write a fic with a pining Davey who loves Jack so fucking much, but it also makes him like… irrationally pissed off at all times. He’s like, I didn’t used to be like this. I used to be a functioning human being. Then Jack Kelly came along and smiled at me with his pretty boy face and his big brown eyes and this is actually the worst thing that’s happened to me, ever. All I want to do is hold his hand and pet his hair and it’s filling me with the rage of a thousand suns. No one knows suffering as I do.

[walkman-cat]

i love turn of the century (19th-20th) womens' fashion and i love costume design! so heres my costume design for katherine plumber/pulitzer!! (feat. split cycling skirt and chatelaine. because i'm Normal about them)

i tried the best i could to stick as true to history as i could. there are some anachronisms though (both intentional and unintentional) so please forgive me!!

as usual, some more references and preliminary sketches under the cut:

[noxexistant]

newsies fandom! @glitter-ink posts ai art and stolen artwork, passing it off as their own!

i sent them a polite ask requesting them to at least modify the posts to address that it was ai in the caption or tags, and remove the stolen artwork - and they immediately blocked me, so!

block them! do not engage! don’t give their stolen stuff and ai trash any notes.

[colombinna]

newsies broadway is fucked up in many ways but the way they just put a fucking ableist slur in the lyrics for their main act one finale song for literally no reason???? who thought that was okay dude 😭😭😭

[wwwwaaaaazzzzzaaaapppp]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEREMY JORDAN!!!🎉🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂🥳🥳🥳🎈🎈🎈🎊🎊🎊🎁🎁🎁

Thank you for being the reason I got back into theater and being part of my favorite show that I have seen live, also just for being an awesome guy.