Learn more about the full cast of Newsies with news, photos, videos and more at TV GuideCAST LIST Newsies Thank you to everyone who audition for this show Everyone was supremely talented but after narrowing down all the possible choices the production team decided that the strongest possible choice would be to mix gender casting All roles will be played as gender writtenNewsies, with its energetic score and largescale dance gymnastics, hits a note lost between the popfantasy and ragtime of Bugsy Malone and the Rrated realism of Gangs of New York Dramatically there is some surprisingly strong stuff here, and perhaps Newsies would have come across better without the tunes
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