He’s going in my fucking dollhouse he’s going on the fucking wall

Can we get some livesies or uksies sprace?

i have no idea how old this ask is but the starving victorian bodybuilders make me laugh still

fyi i don’t accept the term newshes it’s a great pun but that’s not the way of this great nation girlsies fought and died for this country and it is for girlsies that I stand and salutesies!

in another universe I finished this katherine but im probably not in the psych ward there either

Well and I drew pie eater

itey’s actor dominic maldonado has four film credits to his name (newsies:itey) (blood drips on newsies square:himself) (free pass:bg baseball player) (1998 PLAYBOY VIDEO CENTREFOLD THE DAHM TRIPLETS: this)

the editing is mine. To an extent7y7GhHg*gi

Ggg

‘Sorry. I dropped my tub of olives I was eating

i dont really know how to articulate this but its crazy just how many people dont even realize they dont care about female characters. all their faves are men. they never talk about girls without being led into it. and when you try to point this out to them they try to defend themselves that their faves are just the archetypes they like, despite clearly not caring when that same archetype is a woman. like i feel like at a certain point it is your problem with the common denominator if you cant find a single female character to enjoy

now that im an adult and have shed my shipping goggles it really is clear to me that as a musical newsies would benefit massively from casting children as children and doing away with the romance plot. i think there are lots of very good reasons to be cautious about having child actors, though I think theatre is generally better than screen (?) for them as they’re spending less time there, both daily and overall, and tours here use local child actors for many parts.

the technical stuff aside, I think it would feel a lot more grounded. it’s simply hard to picture starving Victorian orphans when they’ve dressed up adult men with gym routines in rags and told you these are your newsies. part of why shows like Matilda and School of Rock are so emotionally invest….able…. is because you’ve got a big pile of little kids there singing these great songs in their little piping voices and you’re like oh yeah, right, kids are powerless against adults, of course, you can hear it and see it and feel it and you root for them every second. newsies is a musical with the same core story (children fighting for human rights against adults).

re: the romance, I think it’s a pointless distraction from the main plot and extremely weak writing used to hit a bunch of plot beats in a very lazy way. I love myself some romance, but in newsies it actively detracts from the story. It’s filler, it’s boring, it’s all very nothing. it’s not necessary. something to believe in is the single most bland love song I’ve suffered through in my life, and I’ve listened to every rusty/pearl love song ALW has written for stex during its billion reboots. it’s emptyyyyyyy….. sorry jatherine fans I think ur ship is soulless I think it’s emotional packing peanuts

anyway. Make newsies a child cast show to give it back some emotional flava. Chuck out jatherine. give jacks role in charming katherine to smalls she can bully her into helping. spot is also a girl please see my art. jack doesn’t want to go to Santa Fe because that’s just so fucking dumb it’s just stupid. I’m not having it. It’s real dumb. But he can be cowboy again. all that runtime I’ve just freed up is going towards ensemble time bc the audience has got to love the ensemble. The rest of this is ironed out in my head but I have shit to do. Peace

he doesn’t care that it’s just snowed this is brooklyn have some pride

ID: a realistic digital drawing of spot conlon from newsies on a grey background lit from one side, one arm raised and gesturing with two fingers for someone behind him to come forward. He has a slight smile. He wears a newsboy’s cap, red tank top, unbuttoned brown vest and dark slacks held up by dull blue suspenders. His speech bubbles read, “Joey, bring out the fabric scissors! York thought he could sneak sleeves in here.”

For requests, if its okay, could you do Miss Medda?

done and posted! I’ll try and put her on redbubble soon but I looked this morning and a bunch of the CATS stickers I uploaded recently have vanished so I’m too cranky to upload anything right now. and I have covid 🥲 after two years of avoiding it….

for anyone who wasn’t aware that I have a redbubble I do and almost all of my newsies art is on there!

https://www.redbubble.com/people/frankiecatt/shop

Image Description: A digital full body drawing of Medda Larkin from the Broadway musical Newsies. She is facing to the right. She is a fat Black woman with a deep skin tone and brown eyes, wearing a beautiful floor length Victorian burlesque gown in shades of pink and purple. Her black hair is pressed and pinned up under a massive pink hat that is overflowing with lavender feathers. A long string of white pearls is looped twice around her neck and then hangs in space to suggest movement. She wears elbow length lavender gloves. The art is stylised to emphasise her silhouette and movements and there is little detail or realism in her face or body. The fabric of the dress is very detailed but not realistically. There is no shading and the background is a teal oval, textured to look like a gemstone, on white

miss medda art request <3

OPINION UR CRUTCHIE DRAWINGS R TOP TIER THEY MAKE ME GO CRAAAAYYYYZEEEEEE...... i have one of the stickers of him from ur redbubble in my phone case RIGHT NOW .. its the one of modern crutchie in the yellow stripy shirt and its jyst. So. 💞💞💞💞💞 oog /pos

Not the kind of opinions you asked for I'm sure but I wanted to say it :3

:’D thank youuuuuuuuuuuuu crutchie has so much gamer boy swag he’s the best

🧍🏻‍♂️spot conlon with moustache

anyway if u want to send art requests or thoughts or feelings or opinions to le askbox go wild i wonder what the fansies of todays modern world have to say

Image description: a single page, three panel comic sketched roughly featuring Jack Kelly and Smalls from the Broadway musical Newsies. The characters are depicted just with lineart and no colour, and with little realism.

PANEL ONE: [Smalls, only her head visible in frame because she’s really short, approaches Jack with an evil expression and taps him on the back, making a subtle BAP BAP sound effect. Jack is facing away from her, engrossed in reading a paper.]

Jack: [To himself] Lousy fuckin’ pape…

Smalls: Hey! Hey JACK SMELLY!

PANEL TWO: [Smalls and Jack stare at each other in silence. Jack’s expression is unreadable. Smalls is making a naughty cat smile.]

Jack and Smalls: …

PANEL THREE: [Jack is now the one looking evil and smug. Smalls begins blubbering and her eyes fill with tears.]

Jack: Yeah what’s up Smells?

Smalls: [under her breath] That’s so mean that’s not my name…

End of image description

she never saw it coming

Image description: a digital bust portrait of Katherine Plumber from the Broadway musical Newsies. Katherine is smiling at the viewer and a speech bubble reads, “So whatever happens, let’s begin!” She has light beige skin with flushed cheeks and rosy pink lipstick, and brown eyes drawn in a large, round style with mauve eyeshadow. Her hair is rendered extensively compared to the rest of the drawing in shades of warm auburns and browns and is suspended in midair to suggest movement. She is depicted in colourful late Victorian walking clothes- a pastel striped shirtwaist or blouse with a magenta vest and navy blue tie atop it. She wears earrings and a matching hairpin made of a green gemstone set in gold. The background of the drawing is the same blue as the tie, with light magenta crosshatching over it. End description.

how to hold smalls still long enough to take a nice picture while maintaining a cute pose