Newsies Audio Drama

Newsies Audio Drama

Project Overview

I've written a fanfiction for Newsies and I would like to turn that into a recording!

Summary: Brenna is young girl who pretends to be a boy in order for her to be a newsie on the streets of New York.  She lives in the Manhattan Lodging House with the other newsies who all know her secret.  She has been a newsie for a couple years after Jack took her in when she was in trouble.

She and Jack Kelly are best friends and spend a lot of time together.  He helps her each morning to make her look like a boy and is constantly looking out for her.

When the price for papers goes up, all the newsies decide to stage a strike in order to get the price back.

At first it seems like a great idea, but as time goes on, they realize just how difficult it is to get their point across when Joseph Pulitzer is doing everything in his power to shut them down.

Pulitzer gets to Jack and to the rest of the newsies, it appears that he is betraying them.  Brenna tries to get the truth out of him, but he insults her to the point where he tells her he wished he never saved her.

Beyond hurt, Brenna is comforted by the other boys as she cries.  It is then she realizes that his words hurt so much because she is in love with Jack.

She makes it her personal mission to get him to tell her the actual truth, and when he reveals the real reason he said such terrible things, she manages to get him to come back to the strike.

From there, the newsies will do everything they can to win the strike.  And Brenna will try to tell Jack how she really feels about him.

Link to story: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11012389/1/Say-Something

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Skittery
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

New York accent.

  • This’ll bust me. I’m barely makin’ a livin’ right now!

  • So what? Ya get your picture in da papes, so what’s dat get ya, huh?

  • I'm not in a bad mood!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
David Jacobs
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: jim9162

Jack's best friend. Leader of the strike. Protective of his newsies.

  • This is our selling partner and our friends. Jack Kelly, Trickster, my parents. And that’s my sister, Sarah.

  • They’re waiting to see what Spot Conlon is doing. See, you’re the key. That Spot Conlon is the most respected and famous newsie in all of New York, and probably everywhere else.

  • You’re a liar! You lied about everything. You lied about your father being out west, ‘cause he’s not out west! You didn’t even tell me your real name!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Sarah Jacobs
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: fiddlerdream15

David's sister. Has a crush on Jack.

  • So what makes a headline good?

  • So...Trickster is actually a girl?

  • You've been living here?

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Racetrack
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: dustbi

Really cares for Brenna. New York accent

  • Deah me! What is dat unpleasant aroma? I fear da sewer must’ve backed up in da middle of da night!

  • Look at him in his new suit! Ya bum! I'll soak ya! Ya fink!

  • (extremely compassionate) Ya don’t have to apologize, Tricks. Look, ya may be a newsie, but you’re still a girl. And girls is just more emotional than boys, we get dat. Especially when dat girl is smitten. Even more so when da one she’s smitten with is Jack Kelly. (a beat) He really hurt ya today, didn't he?

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Jack Kelly
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

leader of the Newsies Strike. Very outspoken and boisterous. Falls in love with Brenna; New York accent

  • Don't you dare touch her ever again!

  • Yes, it is. Look, I’m tired of havin’ to help ya get ready every mornin’, I’m tired of havin’ to keep your secret, I’m tired of havin’ to protect ya all da time, and I’m just plain tired of you! Ya know what? I wish I had never saved you dat day on da street!

  • It was so amazin’ to see you so…free. Like you didn’t have a care in da world at all. I’d never seen ya like that before. And then when you came back up here and took your cap off, your hair was drippin’ wet from the rain, and you just looked…so beautiful. I don’t know, I guess dat was da moment I realized…I love you, Brenna.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Joseph Pulitzer
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

runs The World. Very greedy. Will stop the Newsies Strike at any cost.

  • I promised that if you defied me, I’d break you. I’ll keep that promise, boy.

  • I gave you a chance to be free. I don’t understand. Anyone who doesn’t act in their own self-interest is a fool.

  • I ordered a printing ban on all strike matters. Now, who defied it? Whose press did you use to print this on? Whose? Whose?

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Mayer Jacobs
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: stevewhite81603

David's father

  • (with a smile) Sarah? Go get the cake your mother’s hiding in the cabinet!

  • You’ll only work until I go back to the factory, and then you are going back to school, like you promised.

  • This is going to heal, and they’ll give me my job back. We’ll make them.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Governor Teddy Roosevelt
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

gives Jack and Brenna advice about their decision to leave for Santa Fe

  • You know, kids, sometimes what you think you want isn’t really what you want.

  • Now, I may not know a lot about the life of a newsie, but I can tell that you have a lot of people here who care for you. My guess is you’ve been working together every day for years. Will this place you wish to go to really be the same without them?

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Judge Monahan
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

  • Any of you represented by council? No? Good, that will move things along considerably.

  • I fine each of you five dollars, or two weeks confinement in the House of Refuge.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Mr. Weasel
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

sells the newsies their papers. Plots against them in order to stop the strike.

  • Alright, alright! Hold your horses! I’m comin’! I’m comin’!

  • Hey! Hey! Hey! World employees only on this side of the gate!

  • (smugly) Mr. Pulitzer picked them out himself. A special gift to a special new employee.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Mr. Kloppman
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

old man who runs the Manhattan Lodging House. Does not know that Brenna is a girl. Defends and cares for his newsies. New York accent

  • Will ya get up? When ya get up, it’s time to get up! Snitch! Get up! Get up! Everybody’s sleepin’. They sleep their lives away these kids! The presses are rollin’! Sell da papers, sell da papers!

  • Jack Kelly? Jack…Never heard of him. Never heard of him. Any of you boys ever hear of a ‘Jack Kelly’?

  • (smiling) I was wonderin’ when you were gonna tell me. I always saw ya run to the washroom before I came in and it didn’t take much to put two and two together. If Jack Kelly was allowing a girl to stay here, then I knew it had to have been for a good reason. So I let it slide.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Oscar Delancey
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

one of Weasel's nephews. Hates the newsies

  • In the back, ya lousy little shrimp!

  • She's the tramp who put Myles in jail?

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Morris Delancey
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: mikelake_va

Oscar's brother. Hates the newsies.

  • Wait a minute...I know that face.

  • (sneering) Those eyes are hard to forget.

  • My cousin is in jail because of you and Kelly. We was just tryin’ to have a little fun with ya!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Myles Delancey
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Only appears in a flashback. Attempted to assault Brenna before Jack saves her. Only one line.

  • (purring) Hey there, sweet thing.

  • (playful little laugh)

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Spot Conlon
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

most fearsome newsie in New York. Head of Brooklyn. New York accent.

  • Hey, look. They’re gonna be playing with my hands, alright. ‘Cause it ain’t what they say, it’s what we say. And nobody ain’t gonna listen to us unless we make ‘em.

  • Ever since ya came to visit me to try to convince me to join da strike. You were blushin’ pretty bad at da sight of so many underdressed boys. I kinda figured it out from there. I ain’t gonna tell no one. Swear. Newsies honor.

  • Spot Conlon never backs down from a challenge!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Crutchy
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

sweetest of all the newsies. Uses a crutch. New York accent.

  • Yeah, yeah, it must be da Delancey bruddas!

  • You’re gettin’ da chance of a lifetime here, Davey! Ya learn from Jack, ya learn from da best.

  • Ah, remember what I told ya, Mr. Snyder. The first thing ya do in jail, make friends with da rats. Share what ya got in common!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Boots
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: rhysred

one of the youngest newsies, around fourteen. New York accent.

  • I’ll be back sleepin’ on da streets.

  • (coughing the line) Leader's pet.

  • Hey, what is this?! Where’d he get them clothes?!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Mush
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

New York accent

  • (laughing) Hear dat fellas? Hear what Jack said? I asked Jack how he slept and he said ‘On me back, Mush’!

  • Jack, we got no choice. So why don’t we get our lousy papes while they still got some, huh?

  • (pleading) Jack, look at me, will ya? Come on, it’s me, Mush. Look at me. What are ya doin’, Jack?

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Kid Blink
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: eknick14

wears an eye patch. Loud and boisterous. New York accent.

  • You wanna know what’s up, Tricks? They jacked up da price! You hear dat, guys? Ten cents a hundred! Ya know, it’s bad enough dat we gotta eat what we don’t sell, now they jack up da price! Can you believe dat?

  • Tell 'em, Jack!

  • This ain’t happenin’. This can’t be happenin’. What are ya doin’, Jack? Come on, what are ya doin’?

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Bryan Denton
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

reporter for the New York Sun. Helps the newsies with the strike. Very caring.

  • I’m with the New York Sun. Bryan Denton. You seem like the kid in charge. What’s your name?

  • Well, what’s important? Last year I covered the war in Cuba. Charged up San Juan Hill with Colonel Teddy Roosevelt. That was an important story. So, is the newsies strike important? That all depends on you.

  • (regretfully) No, I got reassigned back to my old job as the Sun’s ace war correspondent. They want me to leave right away. The owner thinks I should only cover the really important stories.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Warden Snyder
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: luggywolf

runs the Refuge. Greedy. Wants Jack back in the Refuge

  • Sullivan! Wait until I get you back to the Refuge!

  • You have a boy who calls himself Jack Kelly? I wish to see him.

  • (to the judge) This boy’s real name is Francis Sullivan. His mother’s deceased. His father’s a convict in the state penitentiary. He’s an escapee from the House of Refuge where his original sentence for three months was extended to six months for disruptive behavior.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Brenna Jennings
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: fiddlerdream15

only female newsie. Pretends to be a boy on the streets. Falls in love with Jack. Newsie name is Trickster/Tricks. New York accent.

  • Come on, slowpoke! I need ya to help me get ready! (J: Ya torture me, Tricks.) Ya torture yourself, Jack!

  • Medda, do you think we were wrong to start strikin’? I mean, ever since we decided to go on strike, we’ve made no money, Jack and Crutchy are in da Refuge, and now we have no leader or even someone high up in da world like Denton to stand up for us

  • (no accent; yelling) I haven’t had a mother or father to care for me since I was eleven years old. Just so you know, that was six years ago!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Medda Larkson
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

only woman who knows Brenna's secret. Loves all the newsies. Helps them in any way she can

  • (putting on a Swedish accent for show) Velcome, gentlemen!

  • Stay as long as you like. Toby, give my guests whatever they want.

  • (warmly) Trickster, listen to me. Jack Kelly is lucky to have a friend like you to watch out for him. There were way too many people and I think he would’ve gotten caught whether you had stayed or not. At least Jack was taken knowing that you were there for him.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Ester Jacobs
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Phoenix_Emrys

David's mother

  • Trickster, is it? Would you mind removing your hat inside?

  • Understandable.  Just take a seat at the table, boys.

  • That's for your birthday tomorrow!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Narrator
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: arizonafp

  • Every single boy in the Lodging House knew that Brenna was a girl, but they had decided to keep it a secret from Mr. Kloppman. While they admired him and looked up to him, they had no idea how he would react if he found out a girl was staying in the Lodging House with them.

  • Brenna was starving. Living on the streets was bad, but she’d rather die there than go back to the workhouse. Sometimes, she had to steal to get her food and pray she didn’t get caught and sent to jail. The sun was still shining high in the sky, blazing down on her, making her even weaker.

  • Brenna gasped at his words. Her mouth was open in shock. She felt like she had just been punched in the stomach several times over. She slowly backed away from him, unable to stand in front of him any longer. Her eyes filled with tears as she walked through the crowd of newsies, numb to everything else around her, even all the angry shouts that echoed behind her. She slowly walked further and further away from them. She then found herself in alley. That’s where she broke down into violent sobs on the ground.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Les Jacobs
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: hikarisouh240

David's younger brother. Very adorable and cute. Looks up to Jack.

  • Les, and this is my brother David. He’s older.

  • (faking; with a raspy voice) Buy me last pape, mista?

  • Give him some room, give him some room! Let him think!

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