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It's that time at night where I remember this scene and think about how Bandstand deserved so much better. There is so much characterization and emotion in this single moment. The lighting and choreography rips my soul out and then makes it sing.

I wasn't even in the fandom when it was on Broadway/touring, and I miss this show so much.

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Performed by: Ashle Dawson and Serge Onik

Number: “Havana”

Choreographers: Ashle Dawson and Serge Onik

Style: Cha Cha

From: “’Havana’ Camila Cabello dance cover by Serge Onik & Ashlé Dawson (2018)

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anyone who told you much ado about nothing is good and worth watching was RIGHT and you should listen to them

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In Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick are adamant in their mutual dislike, while Claudio and Hero are deep in love, and the two s

Ah here we go! Free full play for anyone who needs it, i watched it last week so i still had the link in my history heh :D enjoy!

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God I love this version

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me when corey cott’s voice breaks on “fight my way back” during right this way:

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Davey, excitedly telling his mom and dad about the strike:

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My favorite thing about the newsies movie is that in every dance scene there’s at least one newsie who has no idea what the fuck is going on

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There’s a 70% chance that it’s either David or Jack.

During the World Will Know, Mush literally grabs David and leads him off to the side so he won’t be crushed by the choreography.

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my favorite is when Christian Bale falls the fuck over during Carrying the Banner. And he’s right in the front too, so you have to wonder how many shots they took of that song for them to finally be like “this is good enough, right? I mean, Christian fell over, but iT’S FINE, IT’S ADEQUATE, WE NEED TO MOVE ON”

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#every time i see this post i think about that one behind the scenes bit#where they finished the world will know#and then kenny ortega was like ‘that was great… but we have to do the whole thing again because david moscow wasn’t in the shot’#‘it was an academy award winning performance off camera’#and then david spent so long trying to talk him out of making him do it again#‘it was good though right?? i did it right???’ ‘ok but you weren’t on camera moscow’#dumb newsboys

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Corey Cott really didn’t get nominated for a Tony/any other award for playing this character huh

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I feel like people would be a lot less hard on Jack if they realized that he was 17.

I know that Jeremy Jordan was un his 30s which makes it difficult to visualize, but the kid is 17.

He's a 17 year old kid with major PTSD who doesn't know how to cope. He's basically a dad to who knows how many kids. He feels responsible for feeding them and making sure they can sleep somewhere.

Jack is a 17 year old kid who is scared of Snyder and the Refuge and doesn't know if he'd survive again.

He's a 17 year old kid who's fight/flight kicked in and even if it was his best friend it didn't change his natural instinct to GET OUT.

I get that people get bad at him for leaving Crutchie, but look at the context. Why does Jack have to be a brave adult who can handle everything life throws at him flawlessly? If you believe that he should, you're no better than the adults in that world who think the exact same thing. Accept while all they're asking is for this kid to survive, you're asking them to thrive in a world that's against them and it's not fair.

I don't like seeing posts even jokingly bashing Jack for that scene. Because he was SCARED. Because he's a kid. Because his friend was trapped in Jack's own worst fear and he couldn't go back.

"But he ran!" You've never needed a personal day???? And you're just dealing with normal life things, not caring for over 20 boys, leading a strike, on top of trying to deal with a clearly failing mental state.

Same goes for the betrayal. We think he should be all tough and "I'll never betray them!" Because that's what we see in most teen novels, but think about it. He saw Crutchie get dragged to the Refuge and is scared for him. Pulitzer basically says the kid won't survive if Jack doesn't do what he says. He also says he's going to send more newsies to the Refuge, against insinuating that he can make sure they don't survive long.

Jack is SCARED and he has every right to be. What? Was he supposed to say no? Get dragged to the Refuge and then watch as his friends were brought in one by one? And Jack couldn't have changed the speech. The guy FOLLOWED HIM THERE. Snyder was searching over the banister. It was never about the money, so stop acting like he's a traitor.

My point is that Jack was 17. So stop acting like he should have his life together. Stop acting like he doesnt have a right to mess up. Stop acting like he isn't under so much pressure that I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did without getting himself killed.

I will not tolerate any more disrespect for Jack. He's trying his best. End of story.

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This.

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THIS!!!

jack is such a good character because he has a real response to his trauma and to a seriously upsetting situation. With Jeremy’s performance you can see how absolutely frozen with fear he is when he sees Snyder go after Crutchie and it breaks my heart every time. He can’t process that his greatest fear (and probably the source of his greatest trauma) is now getting the person he cares about most, who he feels incredibly responsible for. Jack probably feels, in that moment, like he is watching his worst nightmare play out before his eyes. Santa Fe hits so hard because Jack is having the most human reaction possible -- he’s terrified and panicked and furious with himself because he can’t protect the person he swore he would.

When Snyder shows up in Act II at the World Jack’s response is just as heart-breaking and fearful -- of COURSE he makes the decision he does, because Snyder and Pulitzer know they can manipulate him with what he has shown to be his greatest weakness: his family. The moment Pulitzer mentions “that poor crippled boy” Jack has made his decision. Plus so much of the story after that is Jack struggling to accept what he has done because of how ashamed he feels at the rally -- all he was supposed to do was protect his boys, protect Crutchie, and somehow he has become their enemy and I don’t think he ever quite learns how to forgive himself because he holds himself to a Disney-level-heroic standard that, quite frankly, is ridiculous.

Anyway this has been today’s rant of why Jack Kelly is much-needed Good Slytherin Representation

trekkiehood

Right!

Jack looks so in pain. He looks like he's being tortured when Crutchie is being pulled away. It's not like he didn't care!

People are always asking why characters don't have, or respond realistically, to trauma, and this is why. Becuase you give them a character who does, and everybody gets mad because he reacted HUMANLY.

I like that you point out he holds himself to a Disney standard, becuase he does. He thinks that he should be perfect. Whenever he's in front of the boys he's cocky and arrogant and... perfect. Its only when he's by himself or with one or two of his friends does he truly fall apart.

He fully takes the blame when things go wrong, and when they go right, he says it was someone else's doing. The poor kid has no self esteem. He's just trying to do what is best for his boys. If all of them hating him is what it takes to keep them safe, so be it.

I think that's noble, not traitorous.

Either way, people need to stop blaming characters with trauma for acting like they have trauma.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: every single thing Jack does is motivated by love, trauma, or some combination of the two. Jack loves his boys more than anything. He’d do anything for them.

Jack is a leader. He’s got a reputation, and upholding that reputation is what lets him keep leading. He doesn’t lead because he wants the power, he doesn’t lead because he likes to be in charge, he doesn’t lead because he enjoys controlling people, he leads because he cares. He wants his newsies to be okay, and the best way to make sure they’re okay is by leading them. He had to keep that perfect face up in front of them, because they have to trust him.

When Jack takes the money and agrees to shut the strike down, he knows exactly what he’s doing. He hates it. But he knows. He knows he’s throwing their trust out the window, but he also knows that’s the only way to protect them. He very much knows how bad it can be for them, because he’s lived through it. Twice, I’d like to point out, Jack was in the Refuge twice. And if you think the second time wasn’t worse than the first, when Snyder knew he’d been sneaking back to help the kids inside, you’re wrong.

In the third scene of the show, Jack runs. He drags Davey and Les along with him and runs, and then he acts like it wasn’t a big deal, but he still ran. Everyone ran when the bulls showed up, and Jack wasn’t the first one gone. And the look on his face is important! He sees Crutchie being taken away and he knows exactly how bad it’s going to be for him, and it physically hurts him. He does look like he’s being tortured, because he remembers exactly how bad it is in there and he knows how bad it’s going to be for Crutchie.

But he freezes. And he runs. He’s awake before sunrise drawing pictures of what he went through because he has to keep that mask up almost all the time but he has to let it out somehow; it’s no surprise that the trauma that he’s never had a chance to actually deal with or work past pushes him away instead of driving him forward. He’s been hurt and fight or flight doesn’t always help anyone other than yourself.

And when Pulitzer offers him the money, he doesn’t accept instantly. People act like he does, but he doesn’t. He gets put in the basement and he’s angry. He’s so mad. He’s between a rock and a hard place—either he gives up everything he’s worked for, the relationships and trust he’s built, or he lets more people get hurt and probably lets Crutchie die. That’s not an easy choice. That wouldn’t be an easy choice for anyone, but especially not for somebody who loves and cares and tries as much and as hard as Jack does. He’s so mad that he has to make that choice, but in the end, he chooses to help the people he loves even if that means giving up the relationships he has with them.

Do you really think Jack could have ever actually left for Santa Fe on his own? I don’t. I think any savings he ever managed to put away ended up being used to help people, whether that was medicine if somebody got sick or a little bit of extra food when the headlines have been bad for too long. And besides that, I don’t think he could have left everyone behind when they still trusted him. The reason he’s willing to leave with Pulitzer's money is that he doesn’t think he has those relationships anymore. The people were what was holding him back, he’d never jump a train and start over when he had something to abandon. When he decided to take the money, he knew he was probably burning every bridge he placed importance on, and that was why he was willing to take it. He was only really willing to leave New York behind and start over if he already had nothing left. And the only thing he really had to begin with was people.

Jack runs because he’s terrified. He runs because every single painful thing he’s been through is running through his head, and it’s overwhelming. He takes the money because he makes the choice to protect the people he loves, even if that means losing them, and he’s willing to leave because he has nothing left if he doesn’t have people.

So in conclusion yeah stop making fun of Jack for loving, or being mad at him for betraying the newsies, or for saying he’s ready to leave for Santa Fe. He’s a loving, caring, traumatized person who just wants what’s best for everyone he cares about.

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I LOVE JACK KELLY I LOVE JACK KELLY

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This post owns my heart

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I agree with the thing about Jack never leaving everyone behind. He was always trying to get Crutchie to come along, but we never exactly see him saving up money (in the live version, I dont remember 1992).

And I believe theres two reasons he started to leave just after the strike ended.

One, that even after the strike, when they'd won, he thinks they still dont trust him, that's why he starts to leave. But then when everyone pulls him back and shows that he wants to stay, when its everyone looking sad, he realizes that they truly forgive him

Or two, he had no intentions of going to Santa Fe, I mean, this boy had literally no money, he hasnt worked for several days, if not weeks, and he gave back the sellout money to Pulitzer. So unless he actually kept some, this mans knew full well he wasn't going to Santa Fe. So that either means that he was just messing with them, or he was testing their feelings for him.