Category:Productions

Workshop and First Production
Newsies: The Musical began as a workshop in 2010. Andrew-Keenan Bolger is the only cast member from the original workshop who stayed to the Paper Mill Playhouse or the Broadway stages of the show.

The first onstage production of Newsies began at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 2011, directed by Jeff Calhoun and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. The primary cast included Jeremy Jordan as Jack Kelly, Kara Lindsay as Katherine Plumber, Andrew Keenan-Bolger as Crutchie, Ben Fankhauser as Davey Jacobs, Helen Anker as Medda Larkin, and John Dossett as Joseph Pulitzer. Original casting for this production was announced on September 13, 2011 by Paper Mill Playhouse here.

The Paper Mill Playhouse production opened on September 25, 2011 and ran through October 16, 2011.

Broadway
Newsies opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on March 15, 2012 for previews, and the show officially opened on March 29, 2012. The production was extended through August 19, 2012 after the first previews. On August 24, 2012, producers announced that Jeremy Jordan would be leaving the role of Jack Kelly for his commitments to the show Smash on NBC. Jordan officially left on September 4, 2012.

The musical continued on until August 24, 2014 when it played its last show after a total of 1,004 performances.

The production was reported to cost $5 million, and ended up grossing more than its original investment in only 7 months. This made Newsies the fastest Disney Broadway musical to turn a profit.

Though the cast was almost entirely carried over from the Paper Mill Playhouse production, there were two notable changes: the role of Medda Larkin was taken over by Capathia Jenkins, and the two actors playing Les changed to Lewis Grosso and Matthew Schechter. The cast otherwise stayed the same.