Newsies, Disney’s crowd-pleasing new musical based on the cult 1992 film, is making headlines at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre, but the masses didn’t always greet the newsboys with such warmth. Read on to get the story behind the show. Carrying the Banner While working on the 1872 census, enumerator James B. McCabe Jr., wrote, “There are 10,000 children living on the streets of New York..…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PM on March 26, 2012