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.
November 8, 2024
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Upcoming 'Newsies' lead, CYT colleagues share Big Apple experiences
Upcoming 'Newsies' lead, CYT colleagues share Big Apple experiences
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. CYT North Idaho will bring this beloved true story-based musical to the Midge and Pepper Smock Family Theatre stage Nov. 15-24