Episode 5: Daisy Eagan

Theater People

Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

Tony Awards, Nyc, Musicals, Actors, Creative, Arts, Plays, Writers, Broadway, Theater, Society & Culture, Interview, Comedy, Producers, Performing Arts

4.8 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The hilarious and sardonic actress reflects on child stardom, winning a Tony Award at age eleven, how motherhood has changed her, and still trying to "make it" in the business.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow theater people.
0:06.7	Welcome to episode five of the Theater People podcast.
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0:28.8	Now to today's show.
0:33.2	The Tony Award goes to Daisy Egan.
0:40.3	The place where I can go, where I can whisper what I know, where I...
0:49.3	Throughout the late 80s and early 90s, Daisy Egan, the Broadway Wonderkind, lived every kid's fantasy.
0:55.4	At the age of nine, at her first ever audition, she was cast in the lead role of an off-Broadway
0:59.7	play. From there, she took over as young Cosette in the Broadway production of Le Miz.
1:04.4	But it was the job that came next, the coveted role of Mary Lennox in the Broadway production
1:08.5	of The Secret Garden that not only earned her a Tony
1:11.0	award at age 11, she still holds the title of youngest female ever to win one, but also secured
1:16.6	her in the hearts of her generation's Broadway lovers. Recent guest Laura Asniss literally and
1:21.6	adorably cooed at the mention of Daisy's name. But you're about to hear the reality of Daisy's
1:26.5	childhood, told by the woman
1:27.9	herself, and you'll see it was quite different from what so many of us imagined.
1:36.6	Well, I wanted to say from the beginning that you don't live in New York anymore,
1:42.2	you live in L.A., but you grew up in Brooklyn. I did.
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