What’s not to like about “Newsies,” which just opened a run at Pioneer Theatre Company? The Disney hit has a range of music, from soulful ballads to rousing song-and-dance numbers, that fills the stage with exuberance and energy, penned by the multiple award–winning Jack Feldman and Alan Menken, and a lot of snappy dialogue by Harvey “Torch Song Trilogy” Fierstein.
PTC’s production takes advantage of every opportunity this blockbuster musical offers. As Gov. Teddy Roosevelt observes in the celebratory moment when the newsboys triumph, it “keeps its eyes on the stars and its feet on the ground.