Cursed Newsies Blogging

And Sprace is cool too.

Yeah. Livesies performance and dancing are amazing. The music is incredible. There's a lot of talent and better resources and techniques --which is normal. There's a reason why directors don't want to work with casts full of children.

But the 92sies plot and message is absolutely better. 92sies is about working class people vs rich people. They have adults helping them (Denton, Medda, David's parents). Livesies is about kids vs adults.

In 92sies they tell us that we can beat the rich people if we stay united and help each other. That the working class need each other's help. In livesies the idea of asking other kids to join the strike is a rich girl's idea and it's executed with the help of two more rich kids. They --the rich kids-- say that the problem is that they're getting old. No, dear, the problem is capitalism and you're part of the problem bc if the strike fails you go to your dad's house with pockets full of money, while the working class kids don't have anything to eat. That's the problem.

In 92sies they're getting support. First all the newsboys' support. Then, they get all the kid's.

In livesies there's so little time between Brooklyn comes and the crusade that you don't feel this grow step by step. It's very rushed.

Brooklyn realeted --it feels odd in livesies. They're talking all the time about spot conlon, how they want his help, how he's feared, but then... we only have him singing one song with all his newsies and nothing else. We don't get to see this incredible spot conlon about whom they've created all that expectation. We only see a strong boi dressed in red.

Yes, I like Katherine. But my ideal version of newsies wouldn't have her. Not as we know her. Maybe she could be a reporter interested in the strike, or even Pulitzer's rebel daughter (even though it's creepy bc she died at 2 yo), but she wouldn't be the one who has the amazing idea that puts an end to the strike. This would be the working kids' idea. Idc if it's a newsboy's or a newsgirl's but it theirs. Because this is a story about working class children, nor about rich ones.