The Children’s Crusade: kids walk out of their jobs or schools to take to the streets and stand up for what they believe in, for a fairer and safer world. Does this describe recent current events, a historical event, or the plot of a Disney musical? Trick question - the answer is all of the above! At the same time that the children of Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of latest tragic school shooting, are
leading children across the country in making their voices heard,
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres is presenting the regional premiere of
Newsies, a new musical adaptation of the
1992 Disney movie based on the
historical newsboy strike of 1899. As is happening today in real life, the kids involved the historical strike and the characters in the musical demand that the people in power listen to them in their call for justice. But the latter group does it with music and fabulous dancing. Children truly are our hope for the future, and
Newsies celebrates that idea while providing a fun, entertaining, and inspirational show.
