Celeste Butler gets ready to take center stage
Celeste Butler aims to incorporate advocacy within her work. (Photo courtesy of Celeste Butler.) When she was in the fifth grade, Celeste Butler said she could feel it already — although she was cast as “Indian Number Four” and had no lines, when the choreography brought her to the front of the stage she thought to herself: “This is my calling.” Butler, a 2019 USC graduate, recounted her “breakout” moment in a youth theatre production of “Peter Pan” lightheartedly, attributing the not-so-super-star moment as the start of her foray into musical performance. Now, audiences wor...