Dream Jobs: Musical Theater Actor

Dream Jobs: Musical Theater Actor

By Chance Seales

By Chance Seales
October 25, 2019

October 25, 2019

Luke Spring is a musical theater actor from "Newsies." He showed Newsy's Chance Seales around his dream job.

SHOW TRANSCRIPT

He nurtured a natural gift for performance from a young age and developed it into a career as a musical theater actor at just 16.

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