Disney’s NEWSIES Set for Portland Performances Starting April 19

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

GoLocalPDX Lifestyle Team

Casting has been announced for the Portland engagement of Disney's NEWSIES. The show will begin performances at Keller Auditorium on Tuesday, April 19 and run through April 24.

The Performance Schedule is as follows:

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

The Cast

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.”

The remainder of the cast includes 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 andAnthony Zas.

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NEWSIES

Set in New York City at the turn of the century NEWSIES is the tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged 'newsies' who dreams of a better life far from the hardship of the streets.

However, when publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from all over the city to strike.

The show is inspired by the Newsboy Strike of 1899 when Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway newsies on a two week long action against Pulitzer, Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers.

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