Read Me First!

I've never done a set of Author's Notes on their own like this, but I feel like I probably should, so everyone knows where this came from (if you read the original introduction for Chapter One, this is a clearer version).

This story is based on events other than the newsies strike. It's a fictionalized account of my school's 2000-2001 musical, so there's really no newsies at all. It's a "what-if" scenario -- not what happened, but what could have and, imo, should have happened. Sadly, the musical was not Newsies, as it is here (we'd never get enough guys to fill the parts, and all the girls would protest that there are only six or seven female parts, blah on them XP But I digress.). Though the background information is the same (outside forces take the place of a departed teacher), it's very loosely based on our musical's events, really, something I accidentally misrepresented in the first draft.

The first time around I also implied that the characters were carbon-copies of original people. As I work father into this story, I'm finding this isn't true. The Kassels and Mr. White are very much based on real people, yes, but most of the other adults and the actors and actresses are fully fictional characters. The techies are based on real people and modeled after them, but not enough that they are exact copies. Why are they modeled after real people? Read on! :D

"Techies" was written for my fellow techies -- members of stage/tech crew, who are essential to making a show run. We do everything from set construction to props to lights to sound and beyond, and we have even more fun than the actors while we do it (bwahaha…techies rule! ::glomps any fellow techies out there:: :D :D). This is especially dedicated to my tech crew, our tech director, and our techies that graduated in 2001 and 2002 (I love you guys, and I miss your presence during the shows dearly 3).

Okay, that's it for author's notes. I hope you put up with my sap without wanting to throttle me ^^; Now go, read, be happy! ::grin::

Wait, one more thing XD

I own nothing related to Newsies! I own the actors and the adults -- basically everyone but the techies, who own themselves (though they don't know it ^^;).

Okay, NOW you can read :D

-- LuLu