Casting has been announced for the San Jose engagement of Disney's NEWSIES. The Tony Award-winning production will begin performances at the Center for the Performing Arts (255 Almaden Blvd.) on Tuesday, May 10 for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 15.
The production features
Joey Barreiro as "
Jack Kelly",
Steve Blanchard as "Joseph Pulitzer",
Morgan Keene as "Katherine",
Aisha de Haas as "Medda Larkin", Stephen
Michael Langton as "Davey",
Andy Richardson as "Crutchie", and Turner Birthisel and
Ethan Steiner alternating the role of "Les."
Rounding out the cast are
Mark Aldrich,
Josh Assor,
Bill Bateman, Josh Burrage,
Kevin Carolan, Nico DeJesus,
JP Ferreri,
Sky Flaherty,
Kaitlyn Frank,
Michael Gorman,
Stephen Hernandez,
Meredith Inglesby,
James Judy,
Devin Lewis,
Eric Jon Mahlum, Nicholas Masson,
Alex Prakken, Michael J. Rios,
Jordan Samuels,
Daniel Switzer,
Andrew Wilson,
Chaz Wolcott,
Iain Young and Anthony Zas.
The performance schedule for the San Jose engagement of NEWSIES is as follows: Tuesday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, May 13 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, May 14 at 2 & 8 p.m.; and Sunday, May 15 at 1 & 6:30p.m.
Individual tickets for NEWSIES range in price from $38-$83 and are available now online at
www.ticketmaster.com, in-person at the City National Civic Box Office (150 West San Carlos St.), or by calling 800-982-ARTS (2787). Orders for groups of ten (10) or more may be placed by calling (669) 242-8557. Ticket prices are subject to change without notice.
Ticket buyers are reminded that the City National Civic Box Office and Ticketmaster are the only official retail ticket outlets for all performances at the Center for the Performing Arts. Ticket buyers who purchase tickets from a ticket broker or any third party should be aware that the Center for the Performing Arts is unable to reprint or replace lost or stolen tickets and is unable to contact patrons with information regarding time changes or other pertinent updates regarding the performance.
NEWSIES, the new American musical, features a Tony Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award winner
Alan Menken and lyrics by
Jack Feldman, a book by four-time Tony Award winner
Harvey Fierstein and is produced by
Disney Theatrical Productions, NEWSIES is directed by Tony nominee
Jeff Calhoun and choreographed by
Christopher Gattelli, who won a 2012 Tony Award for his work. The entire creative team has reunited to bring the break-out smash musical to audiences across North America.
When it opened on March 29, 2012 NEWSIES was intended for a Broadway run of just 101 performances. The show's fiercely devoted fans had other ideas, however; they propelled the show to a run of 1005 performances, attendance of more than 1 million and a gross of over $100M.
While on Broadway, NEWSIES set and broke seven Nederlander Theatre house records and became the highest-grossing show from the 2011-12 Broadway season. The show received 23 major theatrical nominations - including eight Tony Award nods - and won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Score and Choreography.
Set in New York City at the turn of the century, NEWSIES is the rousing tale of
Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged 'newsies,' 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' expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what's right.
NEWSIES is 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.
The stage version introduces seven brand-new songs by the original team of Menken and Feldman, including a song written specifically for the tour called 'Letter from the Refuge,' while keeping many of the beloved songs from the film, including 'Carrying the Banner, 'Seize the Day,' 'King of New York' and 'Santa Fe.'
Since the film's 1992 theatrical release and subsequent DVD release, NEWSIES has grown into a cult phenomenon, and for years had been the single most requested title of all the Disney musical films not yet adapted for the stage. (The film featured a screenplay by
Bob Tzudiker &
Noni White (Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians).)
For more information, visit
NewsiesTheMusical.com,
Facebook.com/Newsies and
Twitter.com/Newsies.
The San Jose engagement of NEWSIES is presented by arrangement with Broadway San Jose and is a subscription offering of the 2015-16 Series.
