![]() ![]() In the song " Santa Fe", he expresses his desire to explore the American West and tells Crutchie that someday they'll take a train out of the city together. Before selling newspapers for the day, Kelly shares his dissatisfaction with his friend, Crutchie on the roof. He sleeps on the rooftop of a lodging house where he and several other newsboys stay for the night. He despises the city, believing it to take advantage of the poor until they can no longer work. In the Broadway musical, Jack Kelly is introduced as a 17 year-old orphan newsboy living in New York. But in the movie we have now, he turns back and stays in New York. In the original script, he takes this opportunity and goes to Santa Fe. In the end, he is given another chance to go to Santa Fe when Teddy Roosevelt comes. ![]() He later stops being a scab worker and goes back to the strike. ![]() During the movie, Pulitzer makes him a scab worker by giving him the opportunity to go to Santa Fe. Even dedicating a song to it in the movie. Jack dreams of going to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Eventually, he finds the Newsies and becomes one himself. ![]() In the Newsies novel by Johnathan Fast, Jack finds a picture of his parents that they took in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Not very much is known about Jack's life growing up, other than that his parents are no longer with him. ![]()
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