FARGO — A few years back, on the first day of dance class at Gasper’s School of Dance and Performing Arts in Fargo, middle-schooler Alejandro MullerDahlberg was up for a challenge.
“The first thing I said to him was ‘I’ll give you $1 if you can touch that beam on the top of the ceiling,’” dance instructor Patrick Kasper said. “He jumped and hit it easily and perfectly. That’s an example of how Hondo works. He’s hard-working and a nice guy who can uplift others around him.”
That nice, hardworking middle-schooler in Fargo is now 26 and dancing on New York City’s Broadway in the cast of “&Juliet,” a pop-powered musical that reimagines Shakespeare’s Juliet by giving her a new life after Romeo’s death.
“Hondo wore green”
Alejandro MullerDahlberg’s journey to Broadway began in the unlikeliest of places: his mother’s Montessori school in Moorhead. Terrijann MullerDahlberg wanted her students — Alejandro included — to perform in school musicals…