Prologue

*(Racetrack)-In 1899, the streets of New York City echoed with the voices of Newsies; pedaling the newspapers with Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and other giants of newspaper world. On every corner, you saw 'em carrying the banner, bringing you the news for a penny a pap. Poor orphans and runaways, the Newsies were a ragged army, without a leader, until one day all that changed.