Newsies the Musical Broadway Cast Members to Chat with Fans Live on YouTube on February 16
ANDREW KEENAN-BOLGER, TOMMY BRACCO, KYLE COFFMAN AND EPHRAIM SYKES WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS
(February 14, 2012) In a Broadway first, cast members from the breakout American musical Newsies will chat with fans live on YouTube this Thursday evening, February 16th at 6:30PM EST. Newsies’ Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Tommy Bracco, Kyle Coffman, and Ephraim Sykes will be on hand to talk about the show.
Fans of the musical, which is currently in rehearsals, can visit Twitter to submit questions to the cast using the hashtag #newsieschat. Questions are accepted from now until the end of the live chat on Thursday. View the live streaming chat at http://www.youtube.com/
Newsies, the new American musical, will move to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre (208 W 41st St) for a limited run following its critically-hailed stint at Paper Mill Playhouse last fall. The musical, featuring music by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act), lyrics by Jack Feldman and a book by four-time Tony® Award winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), will play its first Broadway preview on March 15th prior to its March 29th opening night; the final performance is scheduled for June 10th. Newsies, produced by Disney Theatrical Productions,is directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun (Big Riverrevival) and choreographed by Tony nominee Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific revival).
Set in New York City at the turn of the century,Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged ‘newsies,’ who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what’s right.
Newsies is inspired by the real-life ‘Newsboy Strike of 1899,’ when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway newsies on a two-week-long action against Pulitzer, Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers.
ANDREW KEENAN-BOLGER (Crutchie). Broadway: Robertson Ay in Mary Poppins, Seussical, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol. 1st Nat'l Tours: Leaf Coneybear in Spelling Bee, Max in The Grinch, Mary Poppins, Ragtime. Theatre: Omar in the premiere ofAladdin (5th Avenue), Newsies (Papermill). TV/Film: Christophe, on Naked Brothers Band (Nickelodeon), Marci X (Paramount Pictures), One Life to Live. BFA, University of Michigan. Love to Celia & Maggie. Co-creator of the Broadway themed web series,Submissions Only www.submissionsonly.com
TOMMY BRACCO (Spot Conlon). Broadway debut! Special thanks to the functioning dysfunctionals and to all my teachers who helped this dream come true. “You can take the boy outta Brooklyn but you can’t take the Brooklyn outta the boy” Twitter @tommybracco
KYLE COFFMAN (Henry). Broadway: West Side Story(A-Rab), Film: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You(Dakin), Stage: Newsies! (Papermill), performed locally and around the world with the Joffrey Ballet Ensemble, Peridance Company, and NYTB.
EPHRAIM M SYKES (Mush). Graduate Ailey/Fordham BFA, Ailey II. Bway: Memphis, The Little Mermaid. Off-Bway: RENT 1st revival (Benny), The Wiz (Encores City Center) Bring It On (regional). TV/Film: 30Rock(Michael), The 2-2 NBC (Robert DeNiro, prod.), Leave It On The Floor (Lead). Is. 26:3
For tickets, show information, and performance schedule visit NewsiesTheMusical.com, Facebook.com/Newsies and Twitter.com/Newsies.
-- Posted February 15, 2012