A Stanford teenager is living her dream - treading the boards on the east coast of America.

Nineteen-year-old Emma Murphy has jetted off to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina for a year's singing and dancing.

The former Gable Hall schoolgirl and Performers' College student won a chance to audition as a dancer for the Spirit of the Dance show at the Palace Theatre in Myrtle Beach.

Her mum, Barbara, said: "She went for five weeks training in London as a dancer and then they asked if any could sing. Emma's got a lovely voice and when they heard it everything happened at once."

Instead of five weeks in London and hopes of a trip to America, Emma was told she had two weeks to get ready -- not just to dance, but also to sing in Lullabies on Broadway.

Published Wednesday August 14, 2002

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