Two recent Iowa high school graduates are leaving this week on an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City after being named the state’s Triple Threat Award winners at last month’s Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards Showcase.
Wrigley Mancha from Davenport Central and Peyton Haacke from Southeast Polk in Pleasant Hill will be in the Big Apple for an 11-day crash course in musical theater. Mancha is over the moon.
“I am so excited to just learn from the industry professionals and to be surrounded by so many young people who are just as passionate about this as I am,” Mancha says. “I cannot wait — to be in the city too. It’s just going to be so exciting.”…