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What about the musical newies make it the kind of the show it is

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Newsies The Musical is a musical based on the 1992 musical film Newsies, which was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City. The show has music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein based on the film's screenplay by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White. Overall, Newsies is brisk and compact with a tight score, complete with some showstoppers. Kamp, who has been seen around town at Aurora and the Alliance and on the national tour of Catch Me If You can, is a terrific center to the musical and gives a very charismatic performance. One of the most important themes in Newsies is that children can and do indeed have power. To give some historical context Newsies is set in a time when child labor laws were nonexistent. Never the less the newsies “seized the day” and proved that they are a force to be reckoned with and respected.

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Newsies, which began life as a Disney movie before morphing into a brand-new stage musical at Paper Mill Playhouse, was inspired by a real-life event: the strike of newsboys against Joseph Pulitzer and other publishers who tried to take more than their fair share of the young workers' earnings.

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What is the musical Newsies based on?

Based on the 1992 musical film Newsies which was inspired by the Newsboys Strike of 1899, the show follows the charismatic leader of the Manhattan newsboys, Jack Kelly, as he forms a union of Newsies when the price of newspapers they purchase to sell to the public increases.

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