| Song | Prologue |
| Artist | Various Artists |
| Album | If/Then: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) |
| Racetrack: | |
| In 1899, the streets of New York echoed with the voices of Newsies. | |
| Peddeling the papers of Joseph Pulitizer, | |
| William Randolph Hearst, and other giants of the newspaper world. | |
| On every corner you heard them carrying the banner. | |
| Bringing you the news for a penny a pape. | |
| Poor orphans and runaways, the newsies were a ragged army, withour a leader. | |
| Until one day, all that changed. |