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May I please have a kiss my darling Morgan?

woke up in a cold sweat to remind people that while davey has it better than jack and the other newsboys, he is still poor. he is still a child working on the streets. he is still a child who had to drop out of school, put his life on hold, to feed his family. he’s not well-off by any means and i am a little baffled at how many people seem to think he’s the “rich one.” in reality, they were probably struggling for a long time before davey stopped going to school- i can’t imagine esther and mayer would just spring this on him, or even want him to lose his education- and they were using every last penny to make it work but it just wasn’t enough. davey, sarah, and les leaving school was a last resort because the jacobs family is poor. they are poor. davey is not the rich one. davey is not the mom friend just because he has a family. davey is a scared teenage boy who wants to do right by the people he loves, who has the world on his shoulders, who is desperate to help his family out of the hole the systems in power have pushed them into. david jacobs is not the rich one.

the concept of Davey not having a strong New York accent but he picks it up throughout the strike from the other newsies is so important to me

Definitely, but also I interpreted it that he was just amazed by her because of the fact that he’d likely never seen or interacted with a woman like her or any of the women at the theatre and this whole new newsies lifestyle is just so different to his usual life that of course he’d be curious

random pet peeve of mine but I lowkey hate it when the Jacobs are upper middle class in modern aus???? Like HUH

IT'S SUMMER THE NEWSIES OBSESSION IS POWERED UPPPPP

seize the day except at the end, instead of the fight scene, jack and davey kiss and everyone cheers and pulitzer is so moved and enlightened by the gay youth that he lowers the price of papers. so crutchie isn’t beat up and he never gets sent to the refuge

This is my niche