If any of you reading this have heard this monologue before over and over, please just bare with me. I get kinda
tired of reading it on websites too, but in this kind of situation, it fits.
In 1899, the streets
of New York City echoed with the voices of newsies. Peddlin' the newspapers
of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and other giants of the newspaper
world. On every corner
you saw 'em carryin' the
banner, bringing you the news for a penny a pape. Poor orphans and runaways, the newsies were a
ragged army, without a leader. Until one
day, all that changed…
Newsies is my favorite musical of all time and one of my
favorite movies, though I am a Herculean/Xenite/Young
Herculean first and foremost. So one day, I had this crazy idea and for
some reason the awesome Caroline Gottschalk Jackson, (you should go read her
stuff, it rocks!!!) comedic writer/writer
extraordinaire, thought it was an idea worth a shot. So the Brownets (that's me'n Caroline,
in case anyone's wondering) are pleased and proud to present you with our joint
effort: Forward to the Past. A Newsies/Young Hercules crossover.
This is a little intro into the Newsies world for those of
you who don't know anything about it. I could go on forever and a day talking about
it, but I want to make this short and sweet.
Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (my friend Kelly insists on me telling you that she loooooves him) is the leader of the Manhattan
newsies. His real name is Francis
Sullivan. David "Walking Mouth" Jacobs
is one of Jack's close friends and the brains of the newsies. Spot Conlon is the leader of the Brooklyn
newsies, or should I say Emperor Spot, Overlord of Brooklyn (Spot has an ego
the size of the city.) Racetrack is the
hilarious, wisecracking newsie, Kid Blink is the goofy, happy-go-lucky,
always-has-a-smile newsie, Skittery is the bad mood,
and Mush is the sweet one.
My original characters are Hazel, Ebony, and Clover. They're
newsgirls. Hazel is like a female Jack,
Spot and Ebony detest each other, and Clover is compassionate and Skittery's girlfriend.
Becca is another one of my original characters, and she's Jack's younger
sister. Tibby's
(a restaurant) is to newsies like Kora's
is to cadets, and that should be all you need to know. If there's anything
else you don't understand, email me (gabby-kora@juno.com)
and I'll do my best to explain it!
Well, I think I'm done now. I'm gonna leave
this with an introduction, and all of you people out there reading this—review!!! ('less you're gonna flame us).
Review us and tell Caroline and I what you think of our crazy idea
('less your gonna be really
mean 'cause then we'd hunt you down and throw pencils and other various
assorted objects at you). After we get a
review or to, we just might decide to post the first chapter of this story. We'll actually post
it whether or not you tell us to, but if you review, I'll give you some of the
sugar from my stash (yes, I actually have a hidden stash of sugar
packets). HAPPY DRUG FOREVER!!! (hehe
Caroline) I'd
better go now before I scare all of you.
Toodles!
--Kora
