Broadway Musical NEWSIES: Themes for the Classroom Posted on June 21, 2013January 2, 2016 by Laura Cole History The musical NEWSIES is a dramatized, but overall accurate description of what life was like for children in the U.S. back in the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. The newspaper boys (aka the “newsies”) were the primary way that Read More Broadway Musical NEWSIES: Themes for the Classroom