2010 Carmel High School graduate Becca Petersen is making her professional Indianapolis debut when she performs with the cast of “Newsies,” Tuesday, March 15 through Sunday, March 20 at Clowes Memorial Hall on the campus of Butler University. On a national tour, the production is presented by Broadway in Indianapolis. “Newsies,” with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, and book by Harvey Fierstein, premiered on Broadway in 2012. The musical is based on the true story of the 1899 newsboy strike led by Kid Blink who organized orphan and runaway newsboys on a two-week action against Pulitzer, Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers. In “Newsies” the hero is Jack Kelly, a...
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