The votes have been counted and the BroadwayWorld guessers have spoken, choosing NEWSIES as the Ultimate Best Musical Loser. After weeks of deliberation, the final round came down to two Disney musicals: Beauty and the Beast and Newsies. Newsies won by a landslide, receiving 83% of the vote.

Newsies was nominated for Best Musical at the 66th Annual Tony Awards in 2012. The production lost the top prize to Once and was nominated with Evita, Follies and Jesus Christ Superstar. The production won two Tonys – one for choreography and one for score.

Newsies features a Tony Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, with a book by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein. Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, Newsies is directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli.

Set in New York City at the turn of the century, NEWSIES is the riveting story of Jack Kelly, a charismatic paperboy and leader of a group of ragged teenage “newsboys,” who dreams only of a better life away from the hardships of the streets. But when publishing giants Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the expense of the newsboys, Jack finds a cause worth fighting for and rallies newsboys across the city to strike for what’s right.

NEWSIES is inspired by the real-life “Newsboy Strike of 1899,” when newsboy Kid Blink led a group of orphaned and runaway newsboys in a two-week strike against Pulitzer, Hearst, and other powerful newspaper publishers.