Disney’s Newsies JR. is a 60-minute musical based on the 1992 movie and 2012 Broadway musical Newsies. It tells the story of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy in New York City at the turn of the century who leads a group of newsies in a strike against newspaper publishers who raise prices at their expense. The musical includes the classic songs “Carrying the Banner,” “Seize the Day,” and “Santa Fe,” and 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 news magnates.