Character Break Down From Script:
JACK KELLY - leader of the newsies
CRUTCHIE - newsie with a bum leg
DAVEY - new, bookish newsie
LES - Davey's fearless younger brother
RACE, ALBERT, SPECS, HENRY, FINCH, ROMEO, ELMER, MUSH, BUTTONS, SPLASHER, TOMMY BOY, JO JO, MIKE, IKE - newsies
SCABS
SPOT CONLON - leader of the Brooklyn newsies
KATHERINE PLUMBER - ambitious young reporter
DARCY - upper-class son of a publisher
BILL - son of William Randolph Hearst
WIESEL - runs the World's distribution window
MORRIS DELANCEY - heavy at the World's distribution window
OSCAR DELANCEY - Morris's equally tough brother
GOONS
JOSEPH PULITZER - no-nonsense publisher of the World
SEITZ - Pulitzer's editor
BUNSEN - Pulitzer's bookkeeper
HANNAH - Pulitzer's secretary
NUNZIO - Pulitzer's barber
GUARD
SNYDER - warden of The Refuge
MEDDA LARKIN - vaudeville star and theatre owner
BOWERY BEAUTIES - showgirls at Medda's theater
STAGE MANAGER
NUNS
WOMAN - newspaper customer
MR. JACOBI - owner of Jacobi's deli
POLICEMEN
MAYOR
GOVERNOR TEDDY ROOSEVELT