Newsies review " 'tis the season for Disney musical about industrial relations
Troubadour Wembley Park theatre, LondonThis show about young New York paper-sellers has stirring anthems and screwball energy, even if it lacks emotional and political depth Newspaper hawkers, or "newsies", belong to a bygone age but the issues in this US musical about their 1899 strike are today's headlines. Quandaries of industrial action, the struggle for unionisation and crises of homelessness and child exploitat…