Do You Ever Think Davey Gets Annoyed With The Boys Singing And Dancing Musical Numbers???

Do you ever think Davey gets annoyed with the boys’ singing and dancing musical numbers???

Jack: PULITZER ANDD HEARST THEY THINK WERE NOTHIN’ — ARE WE NOTHIN’?!?!!!

Newsies: NOOOOOO!!!!!

Davey: Seriously guys, I’m organizing a union not a theater troupe!!!!!

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Jack’s Broken Shoulder

So I was rewatching the Netflix Newsies recording and noticed something interesting about Jack: he’s right handed (as is Jeremy Jordan), but he doesn’t reflect that in his right shoulder. It shows through in lots of little ways.*

Whenever he’s gearing up for something, he rolls his right shoulder as if loosening it up in preparation. He does this a lot: in Carrying the Banner, when he’s just committed to the strike, right before the fight, twice when he’s being convinced to return, just after he scabs, when he asks what he and Kath are, while looking at Roosevelt, and three times in the final confrontation with Pulitzer. 

He carries weight with his left arm whenever he has the choice. Look at how he pulls up Crutchie, even though he has to take an extra second (while Crutchie is hanging!) to get over to that side. Both times the Delancey’s knock him down, he catches his weight on his left hand. JJor’s single cartwheel at the very end is also pivoted around his left hand. 

He also often prefers to gesture with his left hand, far more than Davey or Kath comparatively do. These are just four random moments I pulled out, but it’s present all throughout the show (particularly Santa Fe and STBI). 

I can only think of about 5-6 times in the entire musical when he raises his right arm above shoulder level, usually as part of a double-armed action or group choreography. Whenever he gets to choose which arm he uses to go high, he tends to pick his left. The punch he throws with his right hand in the fight is almost laughably easily blocked by Oscar and is in terrible form (a really wide swing, almost like he can’t forcefully bend at the shoulder). 

And again just after he’s been tossed out of the doors of The World. Les bounces right back up because kids are indestructible, but Jack and Davey lie there for a minute. Jack awkwardly pushes himself up with his left hand, gets pulled up by Albert, then presses down on his upper arm like it hurts more than the rest. 

So what if he was in the Refuge, trying to cheer up some of the smaller kids? It’s after dinner, just enough weak light streaming through the windows to shine off the tear tracks, and he starts sketching in the dust on the glass. Wildly unflattering caricatures of Snyder and the wardens, working out his anger and trying to make the kids laugh. And they do. Quietly at first, then louder and louder until the room is ringing with it, the first happy noise in the Refuge in months. And then the wardens bust in, drawn by the noise, see the drawings and decide to stop Jack from drawing them ever again.

Humerus fractures are tricky things, and it’d be no surprise if Jack didn’t heal quite right from a break, even years later. Maybe that’s why Crutchie has no problem telling Jack he “ain’t been walking so good,” despite the fact that he doesn’t want “anyone should see”, because for ~2 months, Jack was in the same boat. They probably sold together, with the crutch and the sling, milking ableism for all it was worth. And even though Jack can only know the smallest fraction of what Crutchie deals with every day, he has more experience than most of the boys. 

* obviously, some/most/all of this is due to blocking decisions and trying to stay open to the audience, but c’mon guys, let’s have some fun here.