back to your regularly scheduled newsies content, please enjoy my spiral as i read the newsies jr script
oh boy are we ready?
if you'd like to read it yourself
okay so first things first, the bottom line as a song has been completely cut
ALONG WITH THATS RICH WHICH SHOULD BE A CRIME BC THAT SONG SLAPS (apparently its been replaced with just a pretty face)
Finch is non existent, neither is mush, which is another crime
Crutchie has a canonical name now??? Casey....???
okay so that was only the table of contents and the list of characters
on to the script ......
not even two lines in and im already cringing
explaining crutchies name count: one
"Nickelangelo Dervinci!" you're trying crutchie and i appreciate it
oh no can't have any smoking in this show
finch has been replaced by....Muriel???
WE GOT RID OF ELMER?? WHO TF IS NANCY
like yes i get needed to have more girls for a school production but like.....
Pulitzer's singing rights have been revoked...why??? i do not know
i going to cry they made a "les" is more joke
stick to one name are you going to call him casey or crutchie
jack really drew a nice picture in all of 5 minutes, hands it to kath and just sits there now
im really confused as to why theres no finch in this
you don't even ask replacement finch if they want brooklyn
wooo girlpower??
okay so its not horrible but it sure as hell ain't good
THEY GOT RID OF THE "that's great....that's pitiful" LINE NOOO
"JACK, looking miserable, re-enters" homie that's just pretty much the middle of the show
im sorry we talk about the newsies being a family in like the first five minutes of the show but you don't let crutchie sign the letter with "you brother"??? the math ain't mathing
no mentions of alcohol here sir no way
NO WATCH WHAT HAPPENS REPRISE??? CRIME
okay so far past brooklyn's here not much has changed
this is something to believe in slander, how dare they cut it
NO ONCE AND FOR ALL???
oh no there it is
YOU CANT CONTINUALLY USE THE NAME CASEY FOR CRUTCHIE AND THEN HAVE NONE OF THE NEWSIES KNOW WHO THAT IS WHEN YOU REFER TO HIM....okay...okay everything is fine and dandy and great
tarantulas...no Sand storms
and that was my descent into madness!
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posting because I just watched a highschool production of newsies and instead of jack and katherine kissing when he says "gimme your best shot" or whatever she just full out decked him so hard I think the actors mic fell off and I thought you guys would wanna know
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btw if you ask crutchie about nicknames he has for people he will straight off the bat say kathy is short for katherine and jack is short for jackass
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some proposals for places i would put an f-bomb in newsies if i could only have one:
"What, you mean like a strike?"/"Well, you heard Davey, we're on strike!"/"Fuck"
"I'll learn to make do with the mansion, the oil well, the diamonds, the yacht... with Andy, Eduardo the pontiff and Scott... and Frank... oh, and my fucking bank."
"Oh, c'mon, Katherine! Those boys are counting on you!... Oh, you poor fucking boys."
"And we found our voice!"/"And I lost my fucking shoe!"
"Write it in ink or in blood it's the same either way/They're gonna fucking pay"
literally any of jack's lines in watch what happens (reprise)
"...or cross the Brooklyn Bridge... hell, you can't even get out of your own fucking office."
"He's a fucking sellout!"
"I trust you know my daughter, Katherine."/"What the fuck?"
"My father has eyes on every corner of this fucking city! He doesn't need me spying for him."
"If you weren't going to Santa Fe..."/"Yeah, and if you weren't a fucking heiress."
"NEWSIES! WE FUCKING WON!"
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Give me Newsies who developed or were born with disabilities over their time in the refuge and growing up in the streets of New York.
We obviously have Crutchie, who crushed his leg in a trolley accident during the trolley strikes, but how about the others?
Kid Blink, who's eye was cut badly during a fight and totally lost all vision in that eye, leaving a nasty scar where he was sliced. He jokes that he's secretly a pirate to the younger kids because he wears an eyepatch, but the real reason he has it is to hide the scar because he is embarrassed and ashamed of his scaring and how scary it can look.
JoJo, who was born with a vision impairment that makes everything extremely blurry through his perspective. Somebody always needs to read the headline to him in the morning, and he sometimes needs a selling partner to lead him in the correct direction without getting run over by a carriage.
Splint, who's broken her arm so many times and in so many different ways that it's practically unusable. It's covered in nasty scars and bruises and is swollen and bumpy from where the bone never fully set back properly.
Elmer, who deals with chronic fatigue and sometimes having to be dragged away from selling for at least a little bit because Spot can see that if he doesn't sit down soon, he will pass out from ache and exhaustion.
Albert, who lost most of his hearing in a fight at the refuge and has Katherine teach him and a few of the others some sign language so he can finally communicate as well as he can with the other newsies.
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yeah so newsies baseball au?
bc @mikefaistenthusiast wants me to think faster (also this is probably like a highschool team) this is also me pulling on my softball knowledge...which is NOT the same sport but its almost the same thing)
Starters
Jack (#1) - pitcher, also team captain.
Racetrack (#13) - shortstop, fast and light on his feet
Davey (#24)- Catcher, co captain after being dragged onto the team by jack
Finch (#3)- first base for a first class man
Jojo (#11) - second base
Albert (#5) - third base
Elmer (#6)- center field
mike (#8)- right field
ike (#9)- left field
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the rest of the bunch are also on the team but arn't starters
Crutchie is the manager, Kath is assistant manager
Les is the water boy/mascot bc he wants to feel included
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will i write smth for this....i have no idea but this is what the brain produced
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