They sit at a table.
JACK: Alright, we gotta move fast. Now, we'll need the newsies to circulate.
DENTON: There's something else that we need. We need a printing press.
JACK: Just so happens I know a guy with a printing press.
Jack, Sarah, David and Denton enter the basement of the World building.
SARAH: You've been living here?
JACK: Shh. They're right above us. Weasel catches us here, we're all in the slammer.
Jack uncovers a press.
DENTON: Alright! A Platen press. Looks like old man Pulitzer never threw anything away.
DAVID: Is it going to work?
DENTON: It better. We have a deadline.
They start printing their papers. Anne peeps her head into the window and Specs is right behind her.
ANNE: they catch you here, and they'll skin you!
JACK: not if they don't find out.
DENTON: This is the story you wanted to write, well tonight is the night that you can.
JACK: Just get this done and by dawn't early light you can finish the fight you began
DAVID: This time we're in it to stay
SARAH: Think about seizing the day
JACK: Think of that train as she rolls into old Santa Fe. Tell her I'm on my way
NEWSIES:
See old man Pulitzer snug in his bed
He don't care if we're dead or alive
Three satin pillows are under his head
While we're begging for bread to survive
Joe, if you're still counting sheep
Wake up and read 'em and weep
You've got your thugs
With their sticks and their slugs
Yeah, but we got a promise to keep
Once and for all
Something tells me the tide will be turning
Once and for all
There's a fire inside me that wont stop burning
Now that the choices are clear
Now that tomorrow is here
Watch how the mighty will fall
For once and for all!
Jack hands bundles of papers to the newsies. Denton and Jack crawl out the window.
DENTON: It's awfully nice of Mr. Pulitzer to let us use his press
JACK: Yeah, I just hope I get to thank him for it someday.
The newsies spread out and hand the papers to various work kids
NEWSIES: This is for kids shining shoes on the streets With no shoes on their feet everyday
This is for guys sweating blood in the shops
While their bosses and cops look away
This is to even the score
We ain't just newsies no more
This ain't just kids with some pie in the sky
This is do it or die This is war!
Once and for all We'll be there to defend one another Once and for all
Every kid is a friend Every friend a brother
Five thousand fists in the sky
Five thousand reasons to try
We're going over the wall
Better to die than to crawl
Either we stand or we fall
For once, Once and for all!
Denton is with Teddy Roosevelt, who has just read the Newsies Banner.
ROOSEVELT: Disgraceful, Denty. Those poor boys.
DENTON: I thought you'd feel this way, Governor.
ROOSEVELT: And I did nothing, until now
DENTON: Good.
They shake hands and Roosevelt is handed his hat and walking stick.
LATER THAT DAY- The newsies have gathered around the Horace Greeley statue None of the work kids have showed up.
YOU ARE READING
Anne and Mary
FantasyAfter running for years, Anne finally finds herself a job, and a home.
