Davey- "Use the filtered water"

Jack- "This?"

Davey- "That's the soap, smart one"

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Les- "Stop texting your boyfriend."

Sarah- "It's not my boyfriend, it's Katherine. And maybe she's my girlfriend"

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Race(singing)- "Tell me you love me"

Jack- "I don't love you"

Race- "I wasn't talking to you."

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Les- "I want to stand on these and walk around tall"

Davey- "You mean like stilts?"

Les- "Yeah"

Davey- "Those are crutches"

Les- *falls*

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Jack- "I didn't get my ten meals a day"

Crutchie- "You don't eat ten meals a day"

Jack- "Exaclty"

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Romeo- "I want to be more datable. I'm going to be gay, straight, and lesbian!"

Henry- "You mean bi?"

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Crutchie- "When you grow up, Les, make sure to visit Jack in his mental hospital"

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Mike- "Goodbye Ike, I'm done with this world.

Ike- "No Mike! Wait for me!"

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Mr Jacobi- "How about you change your socks before you change the world"

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Race- "Remember boys, always make sure you are properly dehydrated"

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Specs- "Jack, I have a statement to ask you"

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Albert- "You can buy black turtles on the black market"

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Sarah- "Davey died"

Les- "Fine. I get shotgun then"

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Katherine- "As a college student, I can assure you that I have no desire to do anything ever."

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Sarah- "Do not feed him that Davey, that will literally kill him"

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Buttons- "Guys I'm not going to college anymore. I've decided to finally fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming a box"

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Finch- "There's a good chance I'm dyslexic"

Elmer- "There's a good chance I'm a potato"

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Spot- "Well if he's not legally related to you, you can do other stuff with him"

Jack- "Spot, he's 9!"

Spot- "Oh we are talking about Les. My bad"

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Les- "My lips feel weird. Actually, everything burns."

Davey- "Why?"

Les- "Maybe because I danced in that hose"

Davey- "Les that hose was spraying bleach"

Les- "Oh that explains it."

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Crutchie- "Les, bud, you have the fighting abilities of a drunk chicken."

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Race- "We are so gonna burn this house down. Come on Specs, let's go to the kitchen!"

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Elmer- "Whats $5.50 divided by egg rolls?"

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It’s something that’s been talked about here before (I think??) bUt I’m gonna talk about it again

SO STORYTIME

HERES WHY I LOVE NEWSIES WITH MY VERY SOUL

I was in newsies at the beginning of the year as none other than the amazing Katherine Plumber. It was a very small cast and production and I had to do basically everything to get to show on its feet.

So the rehearsals got underway and playing Katherine was a DREAM. It was so amazing to be able to be sweet and smart and sophisticated in the middle of a bunch of newsies. (Not to mention being able to make hilarious jokes at their expense)

But I didn’t really enjoy it as much as I thought I would. As good as I thought I was at being Katherine, I found that (whenever I had to stand in for someone) being a rough and dirty and boisterous newsie was FAR easier. But I kept my concerns to myself as there were many other girls in the cast who would’ve liked to be Katherine.

That was when the worst happened.

Our Jack Kelly, a fantastic and unbelievably talented guy named Caleb, had to drop out of the production due to family problems. He warned us of this beforehand and had an understudy ready to take on the part.

So the understudy took on the mantel of Jack Kelly for a whole TWO rehearsals before having to drop out too due to *gags* college.

Therefore I had a perfectly stressful couple of days to figure it what the HECK I was going to do. (As I was also the director and did basically everything else for the show) Only a couple people knew that we were without a Jack and I had to come up with a way for this thing to work.

The only solution soon came to me.

I had to be Jack Kelly.

It wouldn’t be a hard thing for me to do. I already knew all the lines and music since I’d been directing the darn thing and had seen the show eighty BILLION times.

So our Albert became Katherine and our Tommy Boy took over Albert’s part and rehearsals went on.

And. It. Was. AMAZING.

I hear a lot of people talk about how roles change them. How they learn things from their characters and playing that role made them a better person. But I always thought that was just a rouse.

I’d never had that experience and I’ve been in PLENTY of musicals. So I guess I thought it was just something other actors would say to make people enjoy the show or like the characters more.

But that all changed when I played Jack Kelly.

Jack Kelly is a damaged person. A girl orphaned in New York who has to make herself mean and hard and tough in order to survive. She had to cut her hair, wear men’s clothes, but cruel to people she’d rather be friends with.

On top of that, Crutchie is Jacks younger sibling. Cnon and confirmed in our production. So Jack has the weight of caring for Crutchie and feeling responsible for what happened to them.

My Jack Kelly is damaged and tired person. She is so heavy with the weight of the world. She is being drained by trying to live up to peoples expectations and likewise guard herself from those people. And that also makes her angry. She is so upset that she has to live in this world where she not only has to be someone she’s not in order to stay safe, but also act the part they’re expecting of her because of her defense mechanism.

Jack Kelly is an actress. But she does not enjoy the part.

During the course of the show the audience sees this. She is tired and angry and longs for something more. She pretends that she’s alright for the sake of Crutchie and the people around her, but in the end she’s just tired.

Then she meets Katherine. And Katherine is a lady, she gets to wear pretty dresses, she gets to be sweet. And when Jack looks at her, she sees the person she wanted to be. Jack wanted to be all that but it was stolen from her when her parents died.

And likewise with Katherine. She’s from a society family, forced to behave a certain way to maintain standards. Forced to be a doll, weak, voiceless. So she sees JACK. Jack is a girl getting to be as wild and passionate and free as she wants to. And Katherine wants THAT.

So throughout the show Jack and Katherine see each other and how they live. And both of them want what the other has desperately. We even added this bit of dialogue during the Something to Belive In Scene where Jack talks about how Katherine made her feel special and no one had ever done that before.

In the end, both women find who they are and who they want to be through each other and I find it WAYYYYYY more meaningful then just a romance??

All that to say... I did learn something from Jack Kelly. I LOVE her for that.

I was an actress too. Hiding how I felt about so many things. I struggled with depression but pretended that I didn’t. I forced myself to smile and be happy because people NEEDED me to be.

I hid how I felt for particular people and that caused me even more pain.

My hopes and dreams of a brighter future, my imagination, were all being slowly eaten away because I didn’t know how to deal with my own problems.

In the end, going on Jacks journey with her made me a much better person. I learned to love myself for and through my flaws and found the beautiful parts of myself through that.

So I did learn something from Jack Kelly. My journey was the same as hers. Again, I love her for that.

Just as I love and will forever love the newsies... for the rest of my days.

And that was how Jack Kelly and the newsies save the dreamer....

anyways thanks for coming to my tedtalk....

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: David Jacobs/Jack Kelly Characters: Jack Kelly, David Jacobs Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Modern Era, Fluff, Javey - Freeform Summary:

When their car runs off the road, "purely friends" Jack and Davey need to spend the night at a motel. With only one bed. Oh, dear...

We’re Inevitable - Archive of our Own

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: David Jacobs/Jack Kelly Characters: Jack Kelly, David Jacobs, Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, Les Jacobs, Crutchie | Crutchy (Newsies), Racetrack Higgins, Joseph Pulitzer Additional Tags: Genderbending, fem!Jack, Rule 63, Novelization, sort of, Eventual Romance, Friendship, Fluff Summary:

Jacqueline “Jack” Kelly, leader of the Lower Manhattan newsies, must protect her newsies and fight back against the increased price of papers all while juggling hiding her secret and attempting to get closer to the new guy.

Novelization of Newsies Live (2017) - sort of.

Chapter 1 underneath!

              Jack grabbed her newspapers and bag, slinging it over her shoulder before stuffing the papers into it. She headed towards the wagon, sitting on one of the stacks of newspapers as she waited for the others to finish getting ready for the day. She eyed the line of newsies, spotting Crutchie as he was focused on the boys in front of him and she felt safe enough to yawn and stretch without her closest friend noticing.

               She would never blame him for waking her up earlier than expected and she didn’t want him to feel guilty if ever he did spot her looking tired. No, she’d be the one feeling guilty at the end of all that…

               Thankfully she had finished stretching by the tim Crutchie joined her at the wagon and she ruffled his hat once he took a seat next to her.

               “Hey, Jack, looks like we’s gots some new newsies,” remarked Crutchie, motioning towards the line with a tilt of his head.

               New newsies? Wondered Jack, scanning the line. It had been a couple of weeks since they had gotten new blood. They –

               She stopped suddenly upon seeing the two new comers. The little boy was easy to spot being the youngest newsie in the square. The other one though had Jack awestruck.

               She had grown up around boys and young men, had seen all shapes, sizes, statures but none of them had made her react like she was now.

               And she had no idea of what to do with that knowledge.

               How could she do anything?

               “Hey, you only gave me 19,” stated the older of the two newcomers, snapping Jack out of her confusing thoughts.

               She was on her feet in an instant, nearly racing towards the boy and, to avoid staring too long at his face and those eyes, she snatched the papers from his hands. She counted the newspapers as her mind began working out a plan to…

               If she couldn’t act on these new feelings, she was at least going to spend time with the new boy. She understood that much from her body’s reaction.

               That, and she also really did want to spend time with him.

               “Weasel, the new kid’s right,” stated Jack turning around to face Wiesel and the Delancey brothers. “Well, it’s probably just an honest mistake seeing as Oscar can’t cunt to twenty with his shoes on.”

               She knew that last part was an easy shot towards Oscar but, after all the crap her newsies had to take from the brothers, she was always generous with her insults. It did provide some entertainment to her newsies as a bonus.

               She handed the 19 papers to the new boy before heading back to Wiesel’s coffer, ready to put her plan into action.

               “And get 50 more papes for the new guy,” she stated, putting down 25 cents.

               “I don’t want any more papes,” he cut in quickly and Jack could clearly picture her plan crumbling to pieces before her eyes.

               This could have gone better.

               Plan B then.

               “What type of newsie don’t want more papes?” she wondered out loud.

               “We’re no charity case,” he stated quickly, on the defense. “We don’t even know you.” He motioned to the younger boy behind him to follow but the kid didn’t.

               Instead, the boy pointed towards Jack and said, “That’s Jack Kelly! I heard he rode a carriage with the Governor!”

               “Yeah!” agreed Crutchie. “He escaped the Refuge in the backseat with him!”

               Thanks Crutchie and kid, thought Jack, hiding her small smile behind her hand as she rubbed her nose. Maybe hearing about her exploits will help her chances with the new guy. Heck, she knew she’d be impressed.

               The only downside to her entire plan on spending more time with the new guy was that every newsie in New York knew her as Jack Kelly.

               Not one knew her as Jacqueline Kelly, the 17 year old girl masquerading as a boy. She really only had herself to blame considering she never contradicted any newsie, promoted the idea of Jack being a guy, had her hair short since she was 6 and quite honestly feared ever being a homeless girl in the streets of New York.

               She’d have to figure out what to do about that tiny detail of her gender once she at least got the new guy to like her.

               “And what was the governor doing at a juvenile jail anyway?” wondered said guy.

               “He wanted to show that he cared,” replied Jack. “And while he was snapping picture, I got my butt into the backseat and off we rode together.”

               The younger boy climbed up the back of the wagon, standing next to Crutchie. “That’s so cool! My name’s Les and that’s my brother, David.”

               Plan C just formed in Jack’s head.

               “Pleasure, Davey.” Jack even gave him a smile and a wink before returning her attention to Les. “How old are you, kid?”

               “I’m 10, almost.”

               Jack could work with that. “Well, if anyone asks, you’re 7. Younger sells more papes.” And Les could very well pass for 7 years old. “And if we’re going to be partners –”

               “Who said we wanted to be partners?” cut in Davey and Jack resisted the urge to roll her eyes. She just wanted to spend time with a good-looking guy but said guy was making it VERY hard for unknown reasons!

               “’Cause youse got a younger brother and I don’t,” replied Jack, trying to stay civil.

               “Selling with Jack is a chance in a lifetime,” explained Crutchie and Jack was very tempted to hug her friend. “You’re selling with him, you’re selling with the best.”

               She’d really need to get him an extra slice of bread or something to thank him.

               “So,” continued Jack, “my two bits come off the top and we split the rest 70-30.”

               “50-50, you’re not trying to pull a fast one on a little kid, are you?” asked Les with a frown.

               Jack paused. She had expected a comment from Davey but not from Les. She learned her lesson: both brothers are smarter than they look.

               Jack gave Les a look before offering, “60-40 and that’s my final offer.”

               Les glanced back towards his brother who motioned with a small gesture to accept. Les smiled before turning back towards Jack.

               “You’ve got a deal!” he exclaimed happily.

               Jack smile back as she spit in her hand and extended it towards Les.

               “That’s disgusting,” remarked Davey.

               “That’s business,” replied Jack as Les had no problem spitting into his own hand and shaking Jack’s.

               Now that that had been taken care of, the lead newsie stepped onto the wagon and addressed the boys in the square. “Alright newsies, hit the streets! The sun is up, the headline stinks and this kid ain’t getting any younger! Let’s go sell some papes!”

               And let Plan C take effect! Thought Jack as she jumped down, swinging an arm around Les and Davey’s shoulders.

               She took the small success that neither of them shrugged her off.

               “Hey, Les, head down that street ‘ver there. Bank’s just ‘bout to close. You’ll sell a bunch of papes there!” Jack pointed to the right and the kid didn’t even hesitate as he dashed down the street, managing to sell a paper before he even reached the corner.

               Jack couldn’t stop her smile from forming.

               “Why are you being so helpful to us?”

               Jack glanced towards Davey. “It’s as I said, youse got a kid brother and I don’t. And I knows youse ain’t no charity case so don’t think that either.” She even winked, knowing full well she used his line right back at him.

               Davey sighed, recognizing his own words easily enough but didn’t ask again. Jack was content with that and just watched as Davey attempted to sell a paper. She had finished her pile several minutes ago and had been waiting for the brothers.

               Namely Davey.

               Les had no problems selling papers, even taking a bunch from his brother every so often.

               Davey just didn’t have the skills. Yet.

               However, Jack was getting tired and hungry so she made her way towards him, resisting the urge to sigh as she said, “Hand it over.” Davey somewhat protested as Jack took the paper right out of his hands but she ignored him as she headed further down the sidewalk. “Escape from burning inferno! You heard it here!”

               A man that had been passing easily exchanged a penny for the paper and Jack gave Davey a triumphant look as she held it out for him to see.

               “You lied to that man,” stated Davey, unimpressed.

               “I did not,” argued Jack, even putting on an indignant look. “I said he heard it here and he did.”

               “My father taught us not to lie.”

               Jack didn’t even bother looking over at Davey as she leaned against the nearby street corner. “Well, mine taught me not to starve,” she muttered, stuffing her hands into her pockets.

               Suddenly, Les came running back to the duo, yelling out happily, “I just sold my last pape!”

               “I have one more,” said Davey, fishing it out of his bag.

               “Sell it or pay for it,” said Jack.

               “Give it here!” Les grabbed the paper from his brother and ran over to an incoming woman. Jack quickly pulled Davey around the corner, out of sight, before peering at Les, watching the kid’s magnificent display of acting.

               Unlike his brother, Les took whatever Jack taught him seriously and learned very quickly, making Jack overly proud.

               She figured from the look of Les’ face, he had even gotten more than a penny for that last paper and the smile didn’t fade as Davey joined his brother, reprimanding him for who knows what once more.

Jack had stopped listening to be honest.

               “Hey, what do you say we divvy up our earnings, grab something to eat and then find a place to crash for the night,” suggested Jack, joining the brothers.

               “We’ve got to get going actually,” explained Davey as he pulled out his meager earnings from his pocket, adding them up with Les’. “Our folks are expecting us for dinner.”

               Jack froze in surprise. Folks. She had not been expecting that.

               She did not do “folks”, not since her father passed away.

               However, actually taking a look at the brothers, Jack cursed herself for not noticing how clean they were, them and their clothes… Of course, they had a family, had a mother to wash for them.

               Jack felt herself back away out of habit.

               “You should join us,” continued Davey, still counting the money. “Our folks would be happy to have you.”

               “Mom’s a great cook,” added Les with a large smile.

               Davey finally looked up at the unusually quiet Jack and he quickly realized they had wandered onto a touchy subject. Davey’s features softened but Jack was quicker.

               She did not want to discuss family with them.

               “It’s alright. I forgot I already had plans with a fella.” She handed over the brothers’ share of the money, knowing full well she probably over gave but she didn’t want to have a heart to heart with them. Not with Davey. Not yet anyway. She backed away hesitantly even as Davey seemed ready to explain something but she didn’t want to hear it at the moment. Instead, she said, “I’m running late now that I think about it. So, see ya –”

               “Is that the fella?” cut in Les, pointing to the other side of the street.

               Jack frowned in confusion. She made that story up. There shouldn’t be anyone –

               She let out a gasped upon seeing Snyder and two of his goons heading in the trio’s direction, Snyder’s dark gaze fixed on Jack. The moment their eyes met, Snyder’s frown deepened and he started running.

               “KELLY!” he yelled out in anger.

               “Run for it! Come on!” cried Jack, reaching out towards Les first and pulling him down the street.

𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯, 𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩

𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦: 𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘢

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𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘣𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴. 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘪𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭. 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: David Jacobs/Jack Kelly Characters: Jack Kelly, David Jacobs Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Modern Era, Fluff, Javey - Freeform Summary:

When their car runs off the road, "purely friends" Jack and Davey need to spend the night at a motel. With only one bed. Oh, dear...