Tickets to NEWSIES National Tour at PPAC on Sale 7/27

Disney Theatrical Productions and the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) announced today that tickets for the highly anticipated Providence engagement of Disney's NEWSIES will go on sale to the public on Monday, July 27 at 10A.

The Tony Award-winning production will begin performances at the Providence Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, October 20 for a limited one-week engagement through Sunday, October 25. In Providence, NEWSIES will play Tuesday & Wednesday at 7P, Thursday & Friday at 7:30P, Saturday at 2P & 8P, and Sunday at 1P & 6:30P.

Beginning Monday, July 27 tickets will be available at the PPAC Box Office (220 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence), (401) 421-ARTS (2787) and online at www.ppacri.org. Orders for groups of twenty (20) or more may be placed by contacting Group Sales Representative Paul Hiatt at phiatt@ppacri.org or (401) 574-3162.

Tickets are $83 - $26; all ticket prices include a $3 per ticket restoration charge and are subject to change without notice.

Summer Box Office Hours are Monday through Thursday, 10A to 3P and two hours prior to all curtain time(s). Regular Box Office Hours resume Tuesday, September 8 and are Monday through Friday, 10A to 5P; Saturday, 10A to 2P and two hours prior to all curtain time(s).

Ticket buyers are reminded that the PPAC Box Office is the only official retail ticket outlet for all performances at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Ticket buyers who purchase tickets from a ticket broker or any third party should be aware that PPAC is unable to reprint or replace lost or stolen tickets and is unable to contact patrons with information regarding time changes or other pertinent updates regarding the performance.

NEWSIES, the new American musical, features a Tony Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, a book by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein and is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, NEWSIES is directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, who won a 2012 Tony Award for his work. The entire creative team has reunited to bring the break-out smash musical to audiences across North America.

When it opened on March 29, 2012 NEWSIES was intended for a Broadway run of just 101 performances. The show's fiercely devoted fans had other ideas, however; they propelled the show to a run of 1005 performances, attendance of more than 1 million and a gross of over $100M.

While on Broadway, NEWSIES set and broke seven Nederlander Theatre house records and became the highest-grossing show from the 2011/2012 Broadway season. The show received 23 major theatrical nominations - including eight Tony Award nods - and won Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Score and Choreography.

Set in New York City at the turn of the century, NEWSIES is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged 'newsies,' who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys' expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what's right.

NEWSIES is inspired by the real-life 'Newsboy Strike of 1899,' when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway newsies on a two-week-long action against Pulitzer, Hearst, and other powerful newspaper publishers.

The stage version introduces seven brand-new songs by the original team of Menken and Feldman, including a song written specifically for the tour called 'Letter from the Refuge,' while keeping many of the beloved songs from the film, including 'Carrying the Banner, 'Seize the Day,' 'King of New York' and 'Santa Fe.'

Since the film's 1992 theatrical release and subsequent DVD release, NEWSIES has grown into a cult phenomenon, and for years had been the single most requested title of all the Disney musical films not yet adapted for the stage. (The film featured a screenplay by Bob Tzudiker & Noni White (Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians).)