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The King's Academy, a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence with a Top-5 Nationally-Ranked Fine Arts Program, recently performed the high school premiere of "Newsies" on its main stage in the Page Family Center for Performing Arts. Starring senior Kyle Martin (Jack Kelly), senior Chris Pappas (Crutchie), senior Clay Hider (Davey), and sophomore Olivia Cornett (Katherine Plumber), this musical is said to be one of TKA Theatre Co.'s best.
TKA’s Conservatory of the Arts, a two-time American High School Theatre Festival award-winning fine arts program, is led by Mr. David Snyder (Artistic Director, Musical Theater, Department Chair), Mr. Nathan Adams (Vocal Arts), Mrs. Cathy Higgins (Dance- Ballet, Tap, Modern and Jazz), Mr. Douglas Gawriljuk (Dance- Ballet and Modern), Miss Sarah Fahey (Theatre Arts), Mr. Brad Majzner (Stagecraft), Mr. David Skinner (Instrumental Director), Mr. Wes Lowe (Assistant Band Director), Mr. Patrick Clifford (Strings), Mrs. Macey Norton (Video/Digital Arts), Mrs. Lauren Moxey (Visual Art), Mrs. Stephanie Grasso (Elementary Choir, Woodwinds), and Mrs. Robin Phillips (Piano).
More information about The King's Academy is available at www.TKA.net and www.TKAFineArts....
Copyright, The King's Academy, Inc., 2018. All rights reserved.

[@carlichristenson7853]

This Crutchie is adorable!! I love how he says "I've got personality". He definitely does! And the way he walks with the crutch is super convincing. Had I not known what the show was about before watching this, I would have thought the actor was actually in need of the crutch. His acting is on point! I also love the costumes. The ensemble matches perfectly with each other, and the main newsies each have their own kind of look. Even the kids have great costumes, and I love the inclusion of the younger kids in this show. This production is fantastic.

[@LoW_CHeEesSse]

And gos smile! Hes got the corky persobality just like the real crutchy the innocence lol HAHA love them all

[@hotcocoandart]

ALSO JACK SEEMED SO SINCERE AND KATH IS SASSY AF I LOVE HER

[@ceciliamcbride4903]

Omg Jack was so good he really did give me a Jeremy Jordan vibe!!

[@Someone-bw9gn]

He was played by Kyle Martin, if you didn’t know

[@rasp2403]

@@Someone-bw9gn isn't he the one who did that valedictorian speech?

[@owen4738]

@@rasp2403 Yes!

[@suzannerider9460]

That's Kyle Martin. He is the person that gave the 16th Second speech at his graduation. He was the Valedictorian.

[@ashlynnheller8400]

My biggest compmaint about Newsies on Broadway is that they couldnt cast kids (with the exception of Les). While I undestand why it was one of the things that gave the movie so.ething special. So seeing a range of ages from these kids are pretty cool.

[@girlsonly9473]

I’m replying, I got a solo... I’m liking... be seen I’m doing a show

[@innerdumbasssystem]

They do 8 shows a week and it's really taxing on the body.

[@lolhi8609]

If I were honest I think that a good number of kids will have difficulty in the choreography...

[@robbicu]

There are enough girls in the production they could be doing 'Annie'

[@kivrinsagchannel791]

Theatre is not as easy as it looks. There's rehearsal and tech week, which is very hard on the body

[@emmaschwind4819]

this crutchie is is everything

[@daisywalker7548]

Amen

[@owenlewis4693]

"How 'bout a crooked politician? Ya nitwit, that ain't news no more!" That line aged like wine.

[@decentgrocerybag4003]

Long as *SYUCKEYS* don’t mind paying

[@xxxxmotocrosx_xxgavinxx1109]

Just to get bad news

[@florriepatel6204]

Ain't it a fine life, carrying the banner throught it all...

[@lildumplin3217]

Mary Breckling when the bell rings...

[@girlsonly9473]

My solo, it go’s like this:long as suckers don’t mind paying, just to get bad news!

[@wewerestrangerspodcast9251]

Lil Dumplin We goes where we wishes...

[@RonjaBosyM]

The guy playing Jack is so good!!! omg

[@TKAWPB]

Thanks! We agree that Kyle Martin is amazing!

[@johannahdillahunty9899]

I was very surprise I was just minding my own business and then he hit that first note i and I did a double take like what in the world!

[@maestoldt6270]

Such a good Jack

[@kaitlinwyse6965]

This cast has to be like 200 people lol. They just kept coming out of nowhere!

[@jeef669]

So good! I'm currently rehearsing for my local theater company's production of Newsies, and it's not until you learn the music inside and out that you realize how masterfully crafted the entire show is!

[@TKAWPB]

Break a leg, Jason!

[@lucybarry7659]

SO. MANY. NEWSIES.

[@lykoi2711]

Ok but I was entirely convinced that was legit Jeremy Jordan as Jack at first like holy shit he’s good

[@-lemon-4127]

Is it bad that I know every word to every song in this musical... ;-;

[@stickaaaaaa]

No it's a blessing

[@daisywalker7548]

Nope. I have the same problem. I watch this almost every day. I love this better than the original

[@caril.9384]

nope

[@ellathemusicalnerd1338]

The wise words of my sister, "CRUTCHIE HAS BACK UP DANCERS?!"

[@catherinegernetzke5419]

Holy crap! This is such good production! I’m speechless! Good job guys!

[@firstnamelastname613]

Why does finch sound a lot like the original broadway finch? It’s amazing? Who is he?

[@Campopadic]

Some KZbin Channel jonathon Allen, do you know who Specs is? he’s rly amazing I think he was in ghost or something

[@firstnamelastname613]

- C A M D E N - P O P A D I C - that specs was amazing Ryan Steele is shook :)

[@jonathanallen8684]

My name is Jonathan Allen. I'm a Sophmore at King's and I played the role of Finch.

[@santafe1699]

Jonathan Allen You were rly great as Finch!

[@nathe1230]

Jonathan Allen guess what? I also play Finch with Music Theatre Idaho

[@hcrsa1]

Kyle is an awesome jack Kelly in newsies and I’m very proud they did this show and this song is fantastic all together seize the day is a awesome song

[@hcrsa1]

I meant carrying the banner and seize the day are both awesome songs

[@jamesoniris2647]

The set is probably the best part of this whole production. The background looks beautiful and the building facades compliment the industrial metal frame work of the main set piece.

[@acworthstars]

My aunt works in New York and this is a perfect New York accent. P.S.: Thank you for putting girl newsies in this epic musical

[@sydthevegetarian7596]

I’m doing this musical this April!!!! I play buttons

[@honeyimback6082]

NEWSIES FANDOM HERE I COME

[@lifethroughcoraslenses36]

Welcome! You're gonna love it here!

[@nathe1230]

Hey! What’s the hold up? Waiting makes me ansi I likes livin chancy!

[@lifethroughcoraslenses36]

Blessed children, though you wander lost and depraved. Jesus loves you, you shall be saved.

[@daisywalker7548]

I love the girl newsies! And Olivia that was so good girls. And Crutchie was awesome.

[@Jacob_Roberts]

How do the actors do a perfect Brooklyn (NYC) accent?

[@ashlynnheller8400]

These kids have proablly learned this album by heart. By that time doing the accent is easy.

[@tracebooks]

They are doing this at a fairly high level, so I would assume a dialogue coach. Our youth theatre is doing it in July (callbacks are Friday and Saturday), and we will have a dialogue coach to nail the accents. If you search for Ben Cook Newsies, there's an interview there where he talks about the dialogue coach they used on Broadway. We've used one for every show we've needed one--we did three last school year where we needed different types of British accents: RP, Midlands, Cockney, Cornish. Adds reality and quality to a show when accents are consistent and right.

[@Jacob_Roberts]

@@tracebooks You're obviously a gifted and accomplished performer, Tracey.

[@alexisabot9924]

When I was in a Christmas Carol he musical I had to speak in a cockney accent and I couldn't do it so the director hired this cockney guy to teach me. maybe they did that here🤷‍♂️

[@Jacob_Roberts]

@@alexisabot9924 WOW. I'm impressed at your ability to learn an accent which is so foreign to Americans even with a coach's help.

[@jadeallisonhollingsworth]

Loving all the Girlsies!!!

[@unusabletmx]

Madison Hollinsworth girlies?

[@jadeallisonhollingsworth]

ItzCupidz Girl Newsies 😂

[@unusabletmx]

Madison Hollinsworth I thought newsies was gender neutral it doesn’t really have a specific gender tone to it

[@ashlynnheller8400]

@@unusabletmx I think since theres so few girls playing newsies in the musical we seem to make a bug deal about the girls in the show. So we call them fansies.

[@jadeallisonhollingsworth]

ItzCupidz It’s just a term that the fan base of Newsies uses.

[@alicehannibal2580]

Jack swinging on the railings is such a mood

[@taylorbarnett8098]

im in love with crutchie wow

[@undead.rising]

Is this a high school production? This is incredible!!!

[@lydialacey]

yep! a high school with an amazing theater program

[@robbicu]

@@lydialacey Private academy in Palm Beach Florida. They can afford it.

[@LoW_CHeEesSse]

Love love love. Ive loved this movie since i was little and we had on vhs. Dvds were out when my kids were vorn and i specifically got the dvd/vhs movie electronic haha to be avle to play newsies and other classics like the fairy tale theater rumplestiltskin, cinderella with fred estaire. Haha all of these beautiful broadway type disney movies amd plays from my day. Haha loved them all. The old ooold school sbow white with the walt Disney look alike sounding and talking mirror. He was the narrater to all the fairy tales as well. Anyway. My kids grew up watching Newsies and all the rest of these recorded vhs shows haha.. This brought me back to it all and bow i wamt to take out my old Newsies VHS hahaha and watch it!!!

[@daisywalker7548]

I love the chemistry between Kyle and Olivia

[@richardnottage4737]

Really impressive. Bravo all!

[@Ellers-tc3ff]

Omg!! Willy Wonka and Charlie sure has grown up!!😱

[@ryanon5732]

13 Gode Grunner OMG! I just noticed that Jack and Crutchie were Charlie and Willy Wonka! I watched all their videos of Willy Wonka because our school did it last year, and now I am watching their videos of Newsies because out school is doing that show this year!

[@Ellers-tc3ff]

Anything Abida Awww, really? You’re doing Newsies? You’re sooo lucky!!!

[@queenjillian3995]

I have seen this 2 times on broadway and I also saw it at white plains performing arts center so I would say my favorite character is jack kelly and Katherine because they’re a good couple

[@FirstKhaoProtector]

I loved this so much! Can't wait for the rest 😊

[@peeferz5806]

cruthie sounds just like broadway

[@gracelikesgreen]

Sooo excited for Newsies!!!!

[@lauradenadai8915]

Love this I’ve been waiting for this to come out for a while yayyy

[@christopherd.1200]

Hello- i assume King's Academy is a private rather than a public school but even if its a private a school to be able to put on a production of this quality is simply amazing.

[@linsey8156]

They sing and dance really really good 👍🏻

[@evancarlson1634]

Linsey LaFountain Just not at the same time

[@brookedowd7747]

YAY!!! Beautiful!!

[@sophiemazal]

THE NUNS VOICES OMG ANGELS

[@hotcocoandart]

I adore this

[@aarongarceau4053]

For anyone watching this to get a sense of the music for their own upcoming performance, just know that these tempos are quite a bit slower than the book calls for and slower than the provided backing tracks for practices. In fact, the backing tracks all seem to be a good 5 clicks faster than the conductor's score calls for which makes them almost 15 bps faster than the songs in this particular production.

[@gianna526]

This production is amazing but the slow music bothers me so much, it feels like they're slogging through it and it's harder to sustain notes better with a slower tempo so I feel like it's not helping the singers.

[@reidwilliams4698]

i saw this kids valedictorian speech and now i'm binging this

[@duvvi3866]

The nuns sounds so pretty 😭 the jack is great!

[@josec.llamas4422]

Damn, this Jack is jacked. I'm sorry, I had to say it. 😂😂😂😂

[@ashlynnheller8400]

Most of the younger newsies got their wish sadly about wanting another war.

[@monkeyman868]

hopegirl518 Ashlynn yeah in 15 years

[@GAMERWACHER]

That's excatcly what I thought after I saw the movie and the Broadway show

[@hardcandy9880]

I couldnt believe my eyes when I saw the girls doing handless cartwheels.

[@gumdropthedutchie9012]

Their Jack Kelley and Davie should be on broadway

[@ashleyhaas8344]

Who sings "Hey what's the hold up? Waiting makes me antsy. I likes livin' chancey"

[@afunandfriendlyname8468]

The character finch sings that

[@ashleyhaas8344]

@@afunandfriendlyname8468 Thank you. I actually wanted the name of the person that was singing it. But thanks for the information!

[@kathrynw573]

His name is Jonathan Allen

[@ashleyhaas8344]

@@kathrynw573 Thank you so much!

[@katienagy483]

ive watched a bunch of videos of the schools performance, and this is an amazing group of kids but something about this number feels off. like it’s too perfectly choreographed to be a group of young kids getting ready together in the morning on their way to work. obviously the kids did an amazing job with what they were told to do, but i always saw it more as organized chaos. i’m probably just biased because that’s how we’re doing it.

[@LordPorkshire]

4:56 best part

[@natalierhodes8651]

Crutchie is cute 😍

[@calebwarner4104]

yay dozens of kid newsies in identical costumes

[@sprooch1043]

it ain't much, but it's honest work

[@squeegeeandcrew8619]

Of course it’s in Florida. Nothing is ever in Virginia. Can’t a Virginian girl get her own small town Broadway at her high school?

[@florriepatel6204]

Nothing fun ever happens here in winnipeg either.

[@Istromus]

I’m here in VA and I was genuinely imagining going to this school too. I want to so bad kind of 😂

[@sweeneytodd3559]

Hey, I’m a Washingtonian. We’re famous for apples and Starbucks. Nothing happens here

[@torieliseb9211]

No wonder all these kids are so tan

[@mizuki._8796]

Literally _nothing_ happens in Louisiana. I feel ya'.

[@dongkwanshin1107]

When the guys turned to the sisters, i heard my teacher saying "NO ONE WANTS TO SEE YOUR BACK"

[@jeannie0510]

crutchie was on willy wonka jr and the sound of music?

[@caril.9384]

yep!

[@girlsonly9473]

I just searched this up because I lost my words in stagecoach

[@ashleyhaas8344]

Who plays Race and Romeo

[@santafe1699]

Ashley Haas Race: Spencer Lacy Romeo: Kyler O’Brein

[@ashleyhaas8344]

Janta Felly Thank you

[@MaxisaBandKid]

Wow they really put Jeremy Jordan on stage and thought we wouldn't notice.

[@GIGIPEACHFAN]

Yes

[@henrykeohokapu6184]

☝🏽😎😎😎🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@Scotch_Only]

Everything is so good but I can’t get passed the girls waving their papers left and right at the first chorus

[@logandraluck5880]

The guy playing jack got valedictorian

[@girlsonly9473]

Hi

[@-cosmixnebulae-7398]

4:45 I mean, it still is news.

[@grey.7375]

Lets start a train of the lyrics I will go first… Hey that’s my cigar!

[@aesthetic8653]

You’ll steal another

[@lifethroughcoraslenses36]

Hey, look! It's bedtime at the zoo!

[@marcussmith5806]

@@lifethroughcoraslenses36 I thought that I'd surprise my muddah

[@LordPorkshire]

If you can find her.

[@madelinenicole4130]

the camera didn’t find me😢

[@santafe1699]

Food - who did u play?

[@kennethsouthwell8159]

I don't recall female newsies in the film.

[@caril.9384]

added cuz they casted all the possible guys in the theater program

[@mechadoggy]

3:27 Jesus loves you

[@charliedrawz9031]

Rip Elmer.

[@liviilouwho]

What i am wondering is why all the nuns looks like that one scary monster type thing.

[@jascl8479]

Who said I'm a crocked politician?

[@jascl8479]

And who also said I just take care of the guy that takes care of me?

[@jascl8479]

Also which one is finch, race , Albert, Elmer ,buttons , Henry, Romeo, Tommy boy, mush,

[@jascl8479]

Also what did Morris do when he was dragged?

[@grapplethis1420]

One of the main issues with this production is there’s WAY too many kids on the stage at once, all the kids with green pants and the little kids that wear matching outfits are really unnecessary

[@PleaseHelpPleaseHelpPleaseHe]

AYEH. that’s my cigar.

[@florriepatel6204]

Go steal another!

[@florriepatel6204]

I thought that I'd surprise my mother.

[@PleaseHelpPleaseHelpPleaseHe]

If you could find her!

[@florriepatel6204]

YOU ASKED YOU?

[@PleaseHelpPleaseHelpPleaseHe]

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