Upcoming 'Newsies' lead, CYT colleagues share Big Apple experiences
Christian Youth Theater North Idaho will present "Newsies" at the Midge and Pepper Smock Family Theater at the Kroc from Nov. 15-24. "It’s a heartwarming and thrilling musical with a message that no matter how small you are, you can make a big difference," CYT North Idaho Executive Managing Director Dawn Simmons said.
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CYT North Idaho student Bren Altenbach as Jack Kelly and CYT alum Ashley Cleveland as Katherine Plumber play the leads in "Newsies," which opens Nov. 15 at the Kroc.
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Casey Weeks is seen as Benjamin in a 2014 CYT North Idaho production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Weeks began his theatrical career with CYT at age 10. He now lives in New York City where he continues to pursue his acting dreams.
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A late 1890s newsboy strike inspired the 1992 movie musical "Newsies."
The live production version made its Broadway debut in 2012 in New York City, where more than a century earlier the striking newsboys bent newspaper tycoons Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst into a compromise after disrupting newspaper circulation for several days until the moguls agreed to buy back unsold newspapers. An increase in newspaper prices during the Spanish-American War was offset by an increase in sales; when Pulitzer and Hearst failed to return The New York World and New York Journal to pre-war prices after the war ended, the newspaper boys revolted.
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