Disney's Newsies: The Musical lacks both a plot and a single memorable lyric Review: ⭐⭐
Our heroes are charismatic. Michael Ahomka-Lindsay has appropriate presence as Jack Kelly, a slum-dwelling adolescent who hawks newspapers on the street and finds he has the leadership qualities to head the strike. Bronté Barbé, meanwhile, brings her compelling vocal range to the thinly-written role of Katherine, a classic “girl reporter”., the impressive if cavernous new
arena which opened shortly before the coronavirus pandemic. There’s a vast, well-drilled ensemble of paperboys performing aerial tricks while they hang from pulleys and chandeliers. Don’t tell the Disney executives, but the show peddles a series of soft-left clichés about capitalism. We briefly get a glimpse of a harder, Corbynite politics when Jack angrily produces a cartoon showing a capitalist boot crushing the working-class, amorphous bodies straining beneath its surface. József Pulitzer, the two-dimensional tycoon whom this cartoon attacks, happened to be Jewish in real life. There is no mention of this in the play, or on the poster which demonises him.
talks a lot about class, it’s really about generational conflict. Once the tycoons’ teenage offspring throw their weight behind Jack’s “children’s crusade” – using innovations in communications tech to organise, and sticking it to their complacent elders – we realise we’re not watching a play about newspapers in 1899, but about Gen Z revolt today. That explains why no one involved inseems to have wasted research time on the newspaper industry itself.
Fortunately, Coles’ choreography keeps us entertained; his dancing paperboys click their heels higher than any of Mary Poppins’ chimney sweeps, in extended sequences which substitute for plot. If there is any wit to be found in Jack Feldman’s lyrics, they were drowned out on press night by the orchestra, completely out of balance with performers’ sound levels.
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