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Oh boy, where to I begin… first off let me say my sister and I are seriously considering coming back to see NEWSIES again before they move on to their next destination…… THAT’S HOW GOOD THIS PRODUCTION IS!!!!!
Let’s just lay it out there.. NEWSIES has an amazing story line, catchy songs, amazing dancing and choreography…..SEXY masculine men that will make you swoon and oh…. the accent! I have always been a sucker for a New York accent! In the end, I felt like a silly little school girl by how much I was gushing that this was amazing AND the best show I have ever seen!
You will fall in love with lead Joey Barreiro who plays Jack Kelly, his voice is like no others I have heard before…. it very could, make you melt into a puddle right there in the auditorium… it is that amazing!
The dancing was so energetic and spot on! I think this was the first show that I truly forgot that it was just a play and I was able to fully absorb myself into the moment and block the world out around me.
I strongly urge you to take this play in… you will not regret it… but you will regret if you miss it!!! HURRY because they are only in town for the remained of the week. Here is the info to get your tickets now with the only official retail ticket outlets, Broadway In Portland.
Tuesday, April 19 7:30pm
Wednesday, April 20 7:30pm
Thursday, April 21 7:30pm
Friday, April 22 7:30pm
Saturday, April 23 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday, April 24 1:00pm and 6:30pm
For information on ADA seating, please call the Portland Opera Box Office at 503-241-1802 or emailboxoffice@portlandopera.org
Tickets can be purchased:
www.BroadwayInPortland.com,
Portland Opera Box Office: 503- 241-1802 or toll free at 866-739-6737
Portland’5 Box Office: 800-273-1530, All TicketsWest locations
While on Broadway, NEWSIES set and broke seven Nederlander Theatre house records and became the highest-grossing show from the 2011-12 Broadway season. The show received 23 major theatrical nominations – including eight Tony Award® nods – and won Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Score and Choreography.
The production features Joey Barreiro as “Jack Kelly”, Steve Blanchard as “Joseph Pulitzer”, Morgan Keene as“Katherine”, Aisha de Haas as “Medda Larkin”, Stephen Michael Langton as “Davey”, Zachary Sayle as “Crutchie”, and Turner Birthisel and Ethan Steiner alternating the role of “Les.”
Rounding out the cast are Mark Aldrich, Josh Assor, Bill Bateman, Josh Burrage, Kevin Carolan, Michael Dameski, Nico DeJesus, JP Ferreri, Sky Flaherty, Kaitlyn Frank, Michael Gorman, Stephen Hernandez, Meredith Inglesby, James Judy, Devin Lewis, Eric Jon Mahlum, Nicholas Masson, Becca Petersen, Alex Prakken, Michael J. Rios, Jordan Samuels, Daniel Switzer, Andrew Wilson, Chaz Wolcott, Iain Young and Anthony Zas.
Synopsis
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.
