Will Newsies Play Broadway's Nederlander Theatre This Spring?

Newsies, the stage adaptation of the 1992 Disney film currently running at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, may head to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre in April 2012, according to the New York Post. Directed by Jeff Calhoun, Newsies opened at the Paper Mill on September 25 and will play a limited engagement there through October 16.

Newsies leading man Jeremy Jordan has already expressed interest in seeing the show transfer to the Great White Way. "Anybody that you ask that’s my age will probably tell you that [the show should be on Broadway],” Jordan said in a recent interview on Broadway.com's Show People. A Broadway transfer this spring will likely conflict with Jordan's schedule; he is set to star in Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde beginning November 4 at the Schoenfeld Theatre.

Based on the 1992 film of the same name, Newsies features the film's original music as well as additional songs by original composer Alan Menken and lyricist Jack Feldman, and a book by four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein. Inspired by the real events of the Newsboy Strike of 1899, Newsies follows a young New York City newsboy who leads a group of orphans in a protest against Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers. Disney Theatricals is involved with the Paper Mill production, however the company has yet to officially announce Broadway as a goal, and instead initially hoped to focus on licensing the musical to interested regional theaters.

In addition to Jordan, the cast of Newsies also includes John Dossett as Joseph Pulitzer,  Kara Lindsay as Katherine, Mark Aldrich as Seitz, Helen Anker as Medda, John E. Brady as Wiesel, Kevin Carolan as Roosevelt, Julie Foldesi as Ms. Baum, Stuart Marland as Snyder, Michael McArthur, Jack Scott, Nick Sullivan and Laurie Veldheer.