Rachel Noah struck a pose in front of the Gershwin Theatre in New York City where she worked as a summer intern this summer. The musical “Wicked” has been playing at the Gershwin for the last 16 years.

Rachel Noah has a different view of the long-running Broadway musical “Wicked.”

That's because three of the four times she's seen “Wicked” she's been backstage watching its props being wheeled back and forth and its actors take their places.

The 2016 Seneca Valley High School graduate, and self-described theater kid, had a summer internship on Broadway with the production company for “Wicked.”

Noah, 21, is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in marketing and minoring in theater.

“I've been a theater kid since my parents (Darleen and Wayne Noah of Cranberry Township) threw me into dance classes and acting classes,” she said. “I was always putting on shows in the house. It was something they knew I would be passionate about at a very early age.”

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