FLASH FRIDAY: SPRING AWAKENING's Ali Stroker Knocks Out 'Here's Where I Stand' at 2009 NYU Showcase

While being a wheelchair user is certainly not the only thing that defines SPRING AWAKENING's Ali Stroker - her killer voice and indomitable spirit are also major definers - she unavoidably makes history with every career achievement.

Before becoming Broadway's first wheelchair using performer, she was the first wheelchair user enrolled in NYU's prestigious CAP 21 musical theatre program, pioneering ways for those with her abilities to fulfill the dance requirements.

As reported on BroadwayWorld, Stroker shared how she stood on the issue of Kylie Jenner's high-profile photo spread for the December/January issue of Interview Magazine where she's posed as a wheelchair-using dominatrix. Six years ago she was singing "Here's Where I Stand," as a graduating student at Cap 21's Senior Showcase. It's was obvious she was going places then, and we'll surely be seeing this young talent breaking more barriers in the future. Scroll down for the thrilling video.

Deaf West Theatre's acclaimed production of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's SPRING AWAKENING, directed byMichael Arden and choreographed by Spencer Liff, opened on Sunday night, September 27, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

SPRING AWAKENING, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2007, runs through January 24 and is performed simultaneously in American Sign Language and spoken and sung in English by a cast of 28. Deaf West Theatre was last represented on Broadway with the triumphant production of Big River in 2003.

Based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 expressionist play of the same name and featuring an electrifying pop/rock score, SPRING AWAKENING follows the lives of a group of adolescents as they navigate their journey from adolescence to adulthood in a fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll. An extraordinary creative team including Michael Arden and Spencer Liff has reinvented the groundbreaking musical about lost innocence and the struggles of youth in true Deaf West style.