Premier of Disney’s NEWSIES
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.
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.
Tony® Award-Winning Smash Musical Premiere of Disney’s NEWSIES
Premiering at Bass Concert Hall
2350 Robert Dedman Drive Austin, TX
September 27 – Oct. 2, 2016
Lexus Broadway in Austin presented by Texas Performing Arts
September 27 – October 2, 2016
Tuesday – Friday at 8 p.m.
Saturday at 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Sunday at 1 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Tickets start at $25. Tickets are available at BroadwayinAustin.com, the Bass Concert Hall box office, all Texas Box Office Outlets, by phone at (512) 477-6060. For groups of 10 or more, call (877) 275-3804 or email
