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Leslie Noel Hansen, left, leads a rehearsal with members of the Peter Pan Foundation on Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Lafayette, Calif. Hansen founded the nonprofit youth musical theater in 2007. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)In 2006, Leslie Noel Hansen was 25 and on top of the Bay Area's musical scene. Everything changed for her one day when she learned that one of the students she'd mentored, had died in a car accident. Shaped by the loss of her young friend, she gave up a promising Broadway career to launch the Peter Pan Foundation. Since then, the foundation has offered transformative performance opportunities and inspiration for a whole new generation of musicians and actors.
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