An all-singing, all-dancing musical about workers going out on strike to fight for a decent living wage? The London opening of Newsies could not be more topical. Yet this is set in a different century, in a different country - if nothing else, it shows that where rampant capitalism is concerned some things never change.
This boisterous production set in 1899, with music by Alan Menken (Hercules, Aladdin), lyrics by Jack Feldman and book by Harvey Fierstein, tells the story of a group of urchins who scrape a living selling newspapers on the New York streets. But when their miserly publisher Joseph Pulitzer hikes up the wholesale price they pay for their papers they crack and fight back.
