#ryan steele

Ryan Steele - photo by @leegumbsphotography

can someone tell me why when i see newsies fics sometimes they have the whole recorded cast as the newsies (as in they are the versions they imagined the newsies to be) yes THE ENTIRE RECORDED CAST. FOR THE NEWSIES. Except for one. Specs. For some reason people love to write Specs as Ryan Steele. Dont get me wrong, i love Ryan’s Specs.. but why do you have the entire recorded cast except the only black character who you then replace with another white man despite that being majority of the recorded cast?? Like it can’t be just me who finds that odd, right?

Note: I like how this design leans heavily into the obvious Kikaider inspiration with the transparent parts over the circuit detailing on the blue half.

Variant cover for Power Rangers Prime #2

The original cast of the Broadway production featured Jeremy Jordan as Jack Kelly and John Dossett as newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer. The cast also included Kara Lindsay as Katherine Plumber, Capathia Jenkins as Medda Larkin, Ben Fankhauser as Davey, Andrew Keenan-Bolger as Crutchie, Lewis Grosso and Matthew Schechter sharing the role of Les, Tommy Bracco as Spot Conlon, Ryan Breslin as Race, Andy Richardson as Romeo, Garett Hawe as Albert, Ryan Steele as Specs, Aaron J. Albano as Finch, Mike Faist as Morris Delancey and Jordan’s understudy, Mark Aldrich as Seitz and Kevin Carolan as Nunzio and Theodore Roosevelt. The Broadway production cost about $5 million to stage. Newsies recouped its initial investment of $5M in seven months, becoming the fastest of any Disney musical on Broadway to turn a profit, and closed on August 24, 2014, having played 1,004 performances.