Disney's Newsies Broadway Show

Ritz Theatre, Gadsden4 dates

Newsies: The Musical is a stage adaptation of the 1992 Disney film Newsies, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein. The story is set in New York City at the turn of the 20th century and follows Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy who leads a group of teenage "newsies" in a strike against newspaper tycoons Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, who raise distribution prices unfairly. The musical highlights themes of social justice, workers' rights…