Newsies premiered on Broadway in March of 2012. The show details the story of newspaper boys who fight for labor rights against companies led by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst. 

“North-East of the city limits of Geneva, along the southern shore of Lake Leman. Extends the district of Cologny. In a superb location on the Cologny heights stands a modest, square, stucco house- the Villa Diodati.” (Clark) This noteworthy estate has housed both Lord Byron and Milton. The writers loved the property because of its incredible location and the marvelous nature that surrounds it. It was often a ground for their meditation on what the wrote.

London was full of impoverished people in the 1800s. Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor demonstrated the working conditions first-hand.