At age 3, former Green Valley resident Suzanne Hepker started taking dance lessons. Though she didn't know at the time that two decades later she would dance professionally in a New York-based music theater production, Hepker said she has always known she wanted a career in musical theater.

After almost five years living in Colorado and New York, Hepker will return to the valley this week as a cast member with the touring musical production "Dragon Tales Live."