Newsies,
The
Breakout New American Musical,
Nominated
for Eight Tony® Awards
Including
Best Musical
Peter and the Starcatcher,
Co-Produced
by Disney Theatrical Productions,
Scores
Big With Nine Nominations
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Tuesday, May 1, 2012): Newsies, the breakout new American musical,
today received eight Tony® Award nominations including Best Musical. Additionally, Newsies was recognized
with nominations for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Jeremy
Jordan), Best Original Score (Alan Menken and Jack Feldman), Best Book of a
Musical (Harvey Fierstein), Best Direction of a Musical (Jeff Calhoun), Best
Choreography (Christopher Gattelli), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Tobin Ost
and Sven Ortel), and Best Orchestrations (Danny Troob).
Meanwhile,
Peter and the Starcatcher, developed
in a multi-year process by Disney Theatrical Productions, and produced on
Broadway by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes, and
Disney Theatrical Productions, received nine nominations including Best Play,
Best Direction of a Play (Roger Rees and Alex Timbers), Best Performance by an
Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Christian Borle), Best Performance by an
Actress in a Featured Role in a Play (Celia Keenan-Bolger), Best Original Score
(Wayne Barker and Rick Elice), Best Scenic Design of a Play (Donyale Werle),
Best Costume Design of a Play (Paloma Young), Best Sound Design of a Play
(Darron L. West), and Best Lighting Design of a Play (Jeff Croiter).
This
season, Newsies has already been nominated for seven Outer Critics
Circle Awards, six Drama Desk Awards and two Drama League Awards, including
Best Musical nods from all three organizations.
Entertainment
Weekly raves
about Newsies, "stop the presses! Newsies
is an irresistible, high energy winner!" Time
Out New York calls Newsies, "an
invigorating extravaganza! A barnstorming, four-alarm delight," and The New York Times hails it, "a musical worth singing about,"
praising the "terrific songs – buoyant melodies by Alan Menken and rousing
lyrics by Jack Feldman – and a sweet, funny, emotionally satisfying book by
Harvey Fierstein."
Newsies, features music by eight-time
Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty
and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act), lyrics by Jack Feldman and a book by
four-time Tony® Award winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy). Produced by Disney
Theatrical Productions, Newsies is
directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun (Big
River revival) and choreographed by Tony nominee Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific revival).
The Broadway company of Newsies
features Jeremy Jordan as
Jack Kelly, John Dossett as Joseph
Pulitzer, Kara Lindsay as Katherine
Plumber, Capathia Jenkins as Medda
Larkin, Ben Fankhauser as Davey, Andrew Keenan-Bolger as Crutchie, and Lewis Grosso, and Matthew Schechter
alternating the role of Les.
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.
The Nederlander Theatre box
office hours are Monday through Saturday 10am – 8pm and Sunday 10:30am – 7pm. Newsies will be performed on the
following schedule through June 17th (with some exceptions): Monday
at 7pm, Wednesday at 2pm & 7:30pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm,
and Sunday at 1pm and 6:30pm.
Best ticket availability is for
performances Sunday evenings at 6:30pm and Monday evenings at 7pm.
Beginning June 18th Newsies will be performed on the
following schedule (with some exceptions): Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm, Friday
– Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday & Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 3pm.
For
more information on Newsies, please
visit NewsiesTheMusical.com, Facebook.com/Newsies and Twitter.com/Newsies.
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