Beginning Oct. 13 at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, CT, the company will welcome Joey Barreiro as Jack Kelly, Morgan Keene as Katherine, as Medda Larkin, Stephen Michael Langton as Davey and John Michael Pitera and Ethan Steiner alternating in the role of Les. (Pitera will actually make his debut at the Providence Performing Arts Center Oct. 20.)
These new principal cast members will join as Joseph Pulitzer and Zachary Sayle as Crutchie.
Rounding out the cast are , Evan Autio, , Josh Burrage, , Benjamin Cook, DeMarius Copes, Nico DeJesus, , Sky Flaherty, Kaitlyn Frank, , , Jeff Heimbrock, Stephen Hernandez, , , Eric Scott Kincaid, Eric Jon Mahlum, Nicholas Masson, Alex Prakken, Michael Ryan, Jordan Samuels, Melissa Steadman Hart, Andrew Wilson and Chaz Wolcott.
Newsies features a Tony Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award winner and lyrics by and a book by four-time Tony Award winner . It is produced by .
The musical is directed by Tony nominee and choreographed by , who won a 2012 Tony Award for his work. The entire creative team reunited to bring the musical to audiences across North America. Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies, according to press notes, is the "rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged 鈥榥ewsies,鈥� who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys鈥� expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what鈥檚 right."
The musical was inspired by the real-life "Newsboy Strike of 1899," when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway newsies on a two-week-long action against Pulitzer, Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers.
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The tour is currently booked through summer of 2016, with additional engagements still to be announced.
