Musical recounting the 1899 New York newsboys' strike against publishing moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, and their eventual triumph.

City of shadows: Big Tim Channing is a small-time racketeer who makes a living supplying old, out-of-date slot machines to businesses. He strikes up a prosperous partnership with newsboy Dan Mason when the precocious kid shows him how to corner the slot-machine racket and, at the same time, put his crooked competitors out of the running. But when Dan grows up and graduates from law school, it thrusts old Tim into a compromising position. Crashout:...