. >> reporter: it's not easy keeping pace with ali stroker. 28-year-old is rushing to work-- >> linda mccoup. >> reporter: handing out free theater tickets, and making some last-minute backstage preps. ♪ momma who bore me >> reporter: all as she prepared to debut as the first person in a wheelchair to perform on the great white way in the revival of "spring awakening". >> i never saw anyone in a chair on broadway. so i had this dream, and i wanted to make it happen, but nobody had ever done it. so there was this part of me that was like, "okay, i'm not going to get my hopes up because maybe it's not possible." ♪ father i'm fiddle-dee-dee impossible ♪ >> reporter: stroker has rolled over most barriers in her life. she was just two years old when a car accident left her paralyzed from the chest down. five years later, she caught the acting bug. >> i was a little girl in a wheelchair. and then when i started to perform, i felt like i was now an actress and a singer, and it gave me another identity and it made me feel really good. >> reporter: str

fiddle-dee-dee impossible >> reporter: stroker has life. she was just two years old when a car accident left her paralyzed from the chest down. five years later, she caught the acting bug. wheelchair. and then when i started to perform, i felt like i was now an actress and a singer, and it gave me another identity and it made me feel really good. >> reporter: stroker's wowed audiences from new jersey's papermill playhouse... wasn't put there to stay >> reporter: ...to the kennedy center in washington, d.c. stroker said she had to make casting directors feel at ease, choreographing her own movements to match the cast. in "spring awakening", stroker also had to learn sign language. half the cast is hearing impaired. >> it create this different lens, and it adds such a layer of vulnerability to this show that's already so raw and real. >> reporter: casted mate and emmy award winner camryn manheim. >> i learn something from her all the time. >> reporter: what is it like to be on stage with her? because she is a force. >> to be reckoned with, to

stroker said she had to make casting directors feel at ease. to match the cast. in spring awakening, she had to learn sign language. half the cast is hearing impaired. >> it creates a different lens and adds a layer of vulnerability that is so raw and real. >> i learn something pr her all the time. >> what are is it like to be on stage with her? she is a force to be reckoned with. >> she embodies a fierce recommend. fierce and unstoppable. she is a dame. that's what she is. >> stroker said she turned most obstacles into opportunities and has no plan to slow down. >> cbs news, new york. >> that's the cbs overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. >> this is the cbs overnight news. >> welcome to the overnight news. the floodwaters continue to rise in south carolina and so does the death toll in the wake of record rain and flooding. it turned towns into islands and neighborhoods into swamps. david is there. >> for angela cole, comi

. >> meat alley stroker, the very 1st wheelchair-bound actor and broadway history, and bound is not the way she feels. >> a dream come true for me. >> i chased this story to the heart of broadway. part of the cast of spring awakening. spring awakening is a well-known site 1st performed on broadway in 2007 and was a critically acclaimed success. this was played in an entirely different direction >> the ultimate in your industry. he faced anything that you have not been able to overcome in this industry? >> that is a good question. >> important to note that has nothing to do with the player. that is exactly what the director said, she just blew them away. >> there will be young girls at home. what is your advice to them. >> there are so many different ways to get to your final destination. if one door closes another will open. >> you can go see this production and understand exactly what is going on. >> it helps you to understand a couple of basic moves. and then -- >> hard for me to do. >> what is this? bill: want to own stock in a strip club? now you can. yeah, we know that feeling. you

>> reporter: dana, allie stroker is a terrific broadway actress and is the first to star in a musical in a wheelchair. we'll have her story and the rest of the world news coming evening news" at 6:30. >>> a man accused of murdering a utah tourist at a midtown subway station would get a new trial. a judge overturned johnny hincapie's murder conviction saying prosecutors ignored important testimony. he spent 25 years in prison for his alleged role in a deadly mugging. 22-year-old brian watkins from utah was stabbed to death in 1990 at the seventh avenue and 53rd street subway. hincapie one of eight people arrested said he only confessed after a detective beat him. >> he didn't rob anybody. he didn't kill anybody. he was falsely wrongly accused and involved in this by the police. >> manhattan district attorney cy vance has not announced whether he will appeal the judge's decision. >>> the u.s. department of justice will release thousands of prison inmates starting this month. about 6,000 inmates will get early releases after changes in federal drug sentences. the inmates are drug offende

stroker: lastly, a broad having been through this process, what are a couple things that someone might look at before making a determination in the caseresident of a vice president who has run before. , if are the things that say this happens, you go for it, if that happens, you probably go for it. what are the things you think he might consider? mr. earnest: i'm confident that the vice president has asked that kind of question to lots of people.

stroker: lastly, a broad having been through this process, what are a couple things that someone might look at before making a determination in the caseresident of a vice president who has run before. , if are the things that say this happens, you go for it, if that happens, you probably go for it. what are the things you think he might consider? mr. earnest: i'm confident that the vice president has asked that kind of question to lots of people. sure there are a variety of opinions about that. i think the thing that i would observe is that there is one fundamental question that has the answer before you can consider a whole range of other technical questions, and the irst is about her own desire and commitment to running the kind of campaign that we all know take a significant personal toll. life on the campaign trail is arduous, and it is a difficult -- ienge that is true of have fun at the existence of some republican candidates occasionally -- but this is true thatose candidates, too, they spent a long time away from their families, spend a lot of thaton the road, in cities -- in w

. >> isn't it amazing to think bram stroker never went to transylvania. i don't blame him.> next time a little more dramatic music. >> it wasn't enough. >> keir, thank you. >>> coming up, part of our breast cancer awareness month, pink power. natalie, al and tamron and willie will be dunked in those tanks to raisei'm ... ==topvo== boy accused of murdering 8 year-old maddy >>> good morning on your thursday. it's 8:56. a teenage boy accused of murder due in court today. that's when a judge will set a date for a preliminary hearing. c he stands accused of sexually assaulting her and killing her, then throwing her body into a dumpster. he has pleaded not guilty. >>> commuters may have another option when boarding a train. a third door. they plan to test out the trains with three doors to try to ease some of the crowding as people get on and off the train. the agency will start testing out the new three-door trains next month and do so for a year before deciding on a long-term plan. you may hope you have another option for traffic. we will have an update in -- my name is 127 wil