The Moment

The Florida State University School of Theatre transported spectators during their 2021-2022 season to the world of newsboys and muckrakers in old world New York City. In their production of Disney’s “Newsies,” publishing giant Joseph Pulitzer raises newspaper prices at the newsies’ expense, so Jack Kelly and his fellow paper kids take action. Based on the real-life Newsboy Strike of 1899, the show engulfs viewers in the fight for a livable wage between the children selling newspapers on the street and publishers, Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and William Randolph Hearst of the New York Journal.