Newsies Layout, help me spiff it up Options

[Fabio.]

I'm sure not a whole lot of you have heard of Newsies, but bear with me. It's basically a musical made in the nineties about these newspaper boys in 1899 NYC who go on strike. Well with a lot of cute guys and neat dance moves too (I swear, those pictures don't do most of them justice...). Anyhow, I have this layout and I need two things.

First of all I think it needs spiffed up... I've tried brushes and textures and overlays and everything, but it all just looks like it doesn't fit. So I need advice on that.

Second of all, I want to put a quote from the movie on there, and these are the lines I thought of while listening to the sound track (whaaaat, I love this movie). So tell me if one of them jumps out at you, okay?

"Five thousand fists in the sky... five thousand reasons to try."

"Carrying the Banner!"  --(it's, like, their motto)

"Now they're goona see what stop the presses really means"

"When you got a million voices singing, who can hear a lousy whistle blow?"

"Arise and sieze the day"

"Look at me, I'm the king of New York!"

"High times, hard times"

"Once and for all every kid is a friend; every friend a brother"

"This ain't some kids with some pie in the sky, this is do it or die, this is WAR"

And here's the layout:


Thanks for the help, guys.

[ecargnmyst]

i think it looks too clean and also the guy writing on the blackboard..the white of his sleeve is very bright and distracting..so i guess lower the opacity of his sleeve so the white isnt that bright