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abovethefoldd · 18 days

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how did those guys who had to be the refuge kids laying w crutchie in letter from the refuge not start sobbing on stage

#newsies #newsies the musical #newsies musical #livesies #newsies live #newsies the broadway musical #crutchy morris #crutchie morris #crutchie #crutchie newsies #letter from the refuge #andrew keenan bolger

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a-dime-a-day · 30 days

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the attention to detail in this movie is literally so insane

#in the scene in Snyder's office you can hear a ship horn #bc the Refuge is on an island #aND I NEVER NOTICED THIS BEFORE #y'all it's so insane this movie really is on another level #newsies #newsies 1992 #92sies #tncr

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baura-bear · 26 days

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I think the reason Jack got so good at drawing is because after his first few times in the refuge he just couldn’t ever sleep and he’d stay up all night needing something to do other than stare at a wall so he started scribbling and eventually that turned into doodles which turned onto sketches which turned into drawings and then one day his penthouse was covered in drawings of friends and family that he could look at as he went to sleep to remind himself that he was safe

#jack kelly #newsies musical #newsies #newsies headcanons #the refuge

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cowboy-caboodles · 5 months

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Nightmares (1/2)

took me awhile to put this comic together but now that the holidays are over (at least for this Yid) i have time on my hands!

i like to think that the jacobs’ apartment is a safe place for the manhattan newsies, and a few of them come over for dinner or a warm place to sleep when they can. (most specifically Jack, who took a while to warm up to the idea of Davey’s parents offering him shelter and food, but once he did he spent half his time sleeping over)

#newsies #art #livesies #character art #davey jacobs #jack kelly #newsies art #javey newsies #javid newsies #les jacobs #had to include the fact that les and davey def share a bed because of that one line in King of New York #jack definitely has nightmares from the refuge still #i wish we saw more of that fear in the musical bcs it would make so much more sense why jack puts up this facade of being fearless #not that i want him to suffer tho #but character angst is necessary sometimes

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jackmkelly · 5 months

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i loveeee 92sies for giving a reallll look in the refuge. Obviouslyyyy we’re made aware in the stage show how bad it is but seeing it is a whole different level. seeing the boys tense up when snyder comes in or visibly flinch when theyre in trouble lets it feel a lot more real than it can when you’re only going off of letter from the refuge.

seeing the fact that while theres an entire room of bunk beds jacks left isolated and alone. not even given a mattress. seeing the fact he writes on the walls because Genuinely what else can he do while hes waiting around for snyder to do something to him. seeing the way crutchy has to talk to him. its sick.

#newsies #92sies #jack kelly #i could talk about the refuge forever i think #unfortunately im a sucker for angst always have been always will be #i just adore this movie so much every time i rewatch it <33

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sarahjacobs · 20 days

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you know what really gets to me. is how jack loosens up david’s morals. like how david starts off as a staunch pacifist because of the Optics and strategy of it all, but then later he kicks a cop in the face and threatens him with a swing + tries to punch jack when he scabs. and both instances occur specifically because he cares so deeply about jack. But also there's this tidbit from the 91 script

it's like. up until now, david's interactions with jack have largely consisted of david being openly skeptical/confrontational whenever he detects any kind of bullshit. and while he immediately clocks that all this stuff about santa fe is a lie, for the first time, he decides to let it go. Because there's a kernel of authenticity to the statement, though the authenticity doesn’t lie in factual truth, it’s in how jack desperately "wants it to be true". because. this is david's first time seeing the soft underbelly to jack. because david IS charmed by jack despite not really trusting him

#newsies #92sies #javid #id in alt #*#i say all this knowing that in the finished movie this scene doesnt really read as david knowing it’s a lie #However i also think it’s interesting how david’s perception of jack and lying shifts over time #like the shift from ‘the names kelly. jack kelly; you think im lying?’ ‘well you have a way of improving the truth’ -> ‘you didnt even tell #me your real name!’#and if we’re taking the script direction to be true. whats stated in the screengrab -> ‘you lied about your family being out west’#so clearly at some point david decided that he DOES trust jack and what he has to say #sorry this is kind of like a ‘yeah the sky is blue so what’ moment. but i think #crutchy confirming that jack escaped the refuge via roosevelt’s carriage really went a long way in building trust #and of course starting a strike together. lol

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racetracks-fvckin-chair · 8 months

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Its a crime that Letter From The Refuge is not in the cast recording album

#WHY #THEY CANT JUST REMOVE IT #newsies #livesies #crutchie newsies #letter from the refuge

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callmeroygbiv · 1 year

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FUCK this "crutchie depends on jack, jack protects crutchie" bs. give me the most ridiculously codependent friendship ever. they've lived together for years and don't know how to function without eachother. jack will sleep through the morning bell if crutchie isn't there to wake him up. jack always helps massage the pain out of crutchie's leg on bad days without him even having to ask. crutchie is there to help jack when he gets bad nightmares. they always make sure the other remembers to eat. give me unspoken favors and daily traditions. they can't live without EACHOTHER.

#jack got like NO SLEEP when crutchie was at the refuge #jackcrutchie /p #newsies #livesies #jackcrutchie #platonic or romantic however you see them #crutchie morris #jack kelly #i love them #and they were roofmates #newsies musical

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loving-jack-kelly · 9 months

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i think spot admires jack very deeply and looks up to him a lot but would rather be stabbed to death than ever say that out loud. btw. i think jack respects spot and everything that he's done more than almost anybody else in the world but would rather be set on fire than admit it. also.

#i think race is long suffering and good at convincing both of them to be more normal around each other #i think spot worries that jack looks down on him because he's younger #and jack worries that spot doesn't respect his leadership because his approach is so different #when really spot sees jack and understands that jack is doing exactly what he does but in a different way #and jack sees spot and sees a young person who stepped up and did better than he feels like he could have ever done at that age #they both know there's mutual respect there. they refuse to acknowledge it because it's hard. it's scary.#why admit there's more than raw nerves and an understanding to be left alone when they can stay as they were and not have to change anythin #race is like guys be best friends you'd be so good at it.#and spot is like no i need to be distant and aloof so he sees past my age and respects me as I am (he already does)#and jack is like no i need to be tough and unsocial so he understands I'm not just a friendly niceguy leader (he already does)#anyway a personal fave hc of mine that at least used to be fanon if it isn't still #is that jack and spot knew each other in the refuge and spot is several years younger than jack #i think like. 3-5 years younger.#newsies #spot conlon #jack kelly

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whoops-im-obsessed · 1 year

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Why don't we talk about the fact that when uksies crutchie gets back from the refuge he looks downright feral - bruises and blood, messed up hair, an intense energy about him, anger, the stare at snyder's exit, aided by matthew duckett's naturally very large and expressive eyes. This guy has been through it and you can tell, it's not just 'yay crutchie's back and it's all good again' its 'crutchie's back and look what he's experienced and now has to live with'. It drives home the conditions of the refuge and how much was at stake for these kids, jack's 'what if he don't make it?' Wasn't hyperbole, the strike really was do or die for them. And crutchie got close.

#newsies #newsies the musical #uksies #britsies #newsies london #west endsies #crutchie morris #crutchie newsies #newsies west end #matthew duckett #the refuge newsies #jack kelly #michael ahomka lindsay

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newsiesreference · 9 months

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crutchie, in the refuge: i try to stay a little optimistic, even though i will admit, things are getting pretty sticky.

#newsies #newsies broadway #incorrect newsies quotes #source: john mulaney #john mulaney quotes #crutchie morris #letter from the refuge

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shutup-andletme-go · 1 month

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okay poll time to find out which of my fics you want to know about first

please please please ask me about them if you're interested!! if you ask I promise I will write *extends my pinky to you*

#finch posts #newsies #race in the refuge fic #jack kelly #david jacobs #spot conlon #racetrack higgins #kid blink #albert da silva #mack uksies #brooklyn girlsies #snipeshooter newsies #javid #sprace #spravey #mack x her lady friend #uksies

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this-is-ali · 1 year

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baura-bear · 6 months

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Doing research about the New York House of Refuge and here are just a few findings

TW Abuse

Inmates were distinguished by different uniforms which signified different “classes” (unclear if this uniform system survived into the 20th century but it was at least used in the 1850/60s)

Class No. 1: shall include the best behaved and most orderly boys and girls; those who do not lie, or use profane or indecent language or conversation; who attend their work and studies, are not quarrelsome, and have not attempted to escape.

Class No. 2: Those who are next best, but who are not quite free from all the foregoing vices and practices.

Class No. 3: those who are more immoral in conduct than Class No. 2.

Class No. 4: those who are vicious, bad, or wicked.

The superintendent was supposed to treat the children as his own and show parental kindness to “win their confidence and affection” but if the children didn’t adhere to their rules there were “more severe measures… available” however, “less severe violations of the rules merited deprivation of play time or being sent to bed supperless at sunset. For more serious offenses, bread and water for breakfast, lunch, and supper might be ordered. Assaults upon officers or fellow inmates, or attempted escapes, generally resulted in confinement in solitary cells or corporal punishment.”

“Reformed inmates” were often signed to contracts working outside of the city until they turned 21. These contracts as you could probably guess were basically just great excuses to exploit children and usually resulted in heavy abuse

In the 1850-1860s some interviews were conducted with folks in the rehabilitation system (who’d been signed to contracts which revealed major abuse happening within the system (wow. What a surprise /s) won’t get into details but. Zoinks Scoob.

Boys in the system often said if you did something wrong you’d get “stars and stripes” in reference to the scars you would get from punishments

#newsies #the refuge #tw child abuse #newsies history

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thatsallshewrot3 · 3 months

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Newsies Prompts!

(I do love a good Jack/Davey story, but I have nothing against Jack/Katherine. Also these mostly revolve around the musical story line)

Let me know if y’all use these prompts or if you have any fic recommendations!

-The newsies go looking for Jack when he’s locked in basement and find him chained/beaten up

-Jack starves himself so the others can eat and people start to notice

-Jack suffers with depression or sh

-Jack gets hurt in the refuge and the others rescue him

-Jack takes crutchies place in the refuge and he gets hurt

-Jack starts do illegal things (secret fights, drugs, prostitution, etc.) to make more money to feed the newsies

-Jack goes mute after a traumatic event

-Jack stuck inside a burning building after running in to save Les, who unknown to Jack was already out

-Jack gets arrested and the newsies are at the hearing and eventually save him from the refuge

-what if in order to lower the price of papes Jack made a deal to do some illegal activities for Pulitzer?

-jack kidnapped

-s*icidal jack (maybe the newsies take shifts watching him and trying to help him)

-Jack struggles with addiction

Im here for all the angst 😅 I would love to see these with a modern twist on them too!

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str4wb3rry-newsboy · 6 months

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petition to get the newsies ost recorded again but with ben tyler cool as racetrack higgins...

#and letter from the refuge #sung by andrew keenan bolger ofc #newsies #ben tyler cook #ben cook #newsies broadway #newsies proshot #newsies the musical #andrew keenan bolger #crutchie #crutchie morris #letter from the refuge #king of new york #carrying the banner #newsies soundtrack #newsies ost

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