the dream boys

[ajayinthedark]

I have to be honest, I don't know Newsies as well as I know grease BUT here we go...

Okay, so I know you're probably expecting Mark or Jeno Jack because leader shenanigans but I raise you...JACK HAECHAN. The charisma, the versatility in his singing... Also, I fucking love Haechan's belt more than I love anything in the world and I just think him crying out "Santa Fe (Prologue)" to CRUTCHIE JENO would make my entire world spin (and Haechan fucking belting, shouting, beyond furious, beyond devastated, to "Santa Fe" again at the end of Act 1... theatrical masterpiece).

Now....Davey Mark. Davey Mark. The brain of the Newsies, the backbone of the strikes, DAVEY MARK!!! Davey Mark fucking HOLLERING to "Seize the Day" and all the Newsies (especially Jack Haechan) looking on with a lot of awe and a little bit of homosexual admiration (because everyone is in love with Davey, the way everyone is in love with Mark). Sorry, I think I brained so big on that match up GG. Jaemin has more of Les's personality, but Les Jisung would be so fucking cute; the little brother of the Newsies but he towers over them. HELP!

Katherine is Renjun! This spitfire helluva journalist rising the ranks who thinks Jack Haechan is sooooo cringe to start, while Jack Haechan melts more and more--and the moment he stops being a cringe flirt and shows a genuine heart you can see that she's falling bit by bit--are you gonna tell me that's NOT DongRen? Close your eyes and imagine a DongRen "I Never Planned On You" with me. Do you see it? Do you hear it? What you're hearing are the sounds of the pearly gates of heaven opening up.

Spot is Jaemin ("Brooklyn Here" is Jaemin-coded) beacuse that one scene in the movie where Spot looks like he either wants to kiss Jack or knee him in the dick is NaHyuck to a T. Race is Chenle because for some fuggin reason, Spot and Race are so homoerotic in every version of Newsies I've ever seen. I'm so serious, the two of them are always so gay, so I'm transferring whatevadahell is going on with 2022 JaemLe to Spot/Race. Also Chenle saying, "The woiiirld is yeahr eiyesteah" "Yew kno, da FANCY CLAYUM WIDDA POIRL INSOIDE" CACKLING

Rapid fire ensemble: Medda Larkin is Ten, Jacoby is Johnny, Roosevelt is Kun, Dary and Bill are Doyoung and Taeyong, and Pulitzer is LSM. I don't really know the rest of the ensemble well enough to assign all the Neos sooooooo;;; but you guise, when you see me on Broadway as a casting agent, please remember these are my humble roots. Know that my genius was cultivated in my little Retrospring inbox.