Daisy Eagan wins 1991 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

[@clarissaolivares5504]

To have your tony award be presented by audrey Hepburn!!!

[@charchaz00]

Aw Audrey Hepburn giving her a kiss on the head when giving her the award, how precious and she's lucky to have the moment forever

[@KatieT97]

Seeing her reaction made me cry. Winning a Tony at that age. Now she'll be singing in the Secret Garden concert as Martha and Sydney Lucas (also nominated for best featured actress last year for Fun Home) will be playing Mary

[@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740]

Katie Tucker wow passing the baton! How old was she in this?

[@saschahoupt6177]

@@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740 Eleven.

[@5andup]

Youngest winner of the award as of 1991...

[@truelovewaits94]

Kid could sing on stage in front of hundreds flawlessly, but has trouble getting through an acceptance speech. So precious

[@Bowling_Dude]

I would too if I just won one of the most prestigious awards in Theatre regardless of if I was her age or not 😂

[@amberfirexx9]

I love the Sydney Lucas was nominated for the same category and would have been only a little older than Daisy if she had won, and now Sydney is playing Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden soon.

[@margomccready7230]

Yes! Also, Daisy Eagan is in the concert, too!

[@lf1234]

That was a speech for the ages!!!!!!!

[@AJKoehler]

I almost cried at this speech, how amazing for her!!!

[@user-ht4ii1wi6u]

TSG 1991 is my favorite score! Thanks so much for uploading this, I cried!

[@japonaliya]

Politics aside, I am glad Daisy won. Not only was her performace worthy, but her personal life was in termoil as her mom had terminal cancer (and died soon after) This musical, even with the Tony awards, never got the respect it should have being based on a children's book. While just about every Broadway musical was either filmed, or made into a movie, The Secret Garden- The Musical, never was. 2 years later, the definitive film starring Kate Maberly was released, but it was not the musical version. I saw Ms. Egan 3X on Braodway in this musical and 25 plus years later I am still waiting for a professional DVD release of the orginal Broadway performance..I am sure it exists somewhere...

[@thesecretgarden390]

I agree with you 100% the musical is so much better than any of the movies. It definitely brings out the emotion of the story more. I wish we could get a DVD of the musical. However I heard in a article it is supposed to come back to Broadway.

[@lilakylalives9326]

japonaliya it’s probably in the archives for the New York public library but not everyone can just go there and watch for free. You have to have some sort of school project or something that requires you to watch the musical in order to see it

[@HelloHello-tm7uc]

There's a movie version of the book coming again this year 2020 but it also doesn't seem to be a musical adaptation

[@japonaliya]

@@HelloHello-tm7uc there has been many movie adaptions. In the late 30s with Shirley Temple (oops, maybe that was A Little Princess and the Secret Garden was Margaret O'Brien?) a 70s BBC version, and the best, the 1993 Agnieszka Holland version with Kate Maberly. Do we really need another movie?

[@accomplice55]

@@japonaliya: She was talking about a movie version of the musical.

[@cassieosbourne7666]

What a sweetheart

[@naaraitilson5446]

She's playing Martha right now in 5th Avenue's production of The Secret Garden and she was so amazing.

[@chrisjohnson5888]

I love how she has revolved, I have spoke to her on her Facebook podcast, do you know that she is one of her top fans LOL 😂😂😂. we love you Daisy

[@michaelgarcia2024]

Damn, you deserved it. I just found out about you and watched all your performances and I'm hooked, lol!

[@tsartodd]

@1:22 "i don't think i can talk ... oh my God ... awwwww ... thank you!" I remember Howard Stern played this as a soundbite back in the day LOL

[@mr.bullionnaire9748]

Yup him and Gilbert Gottfried were hilarious in that. As soon as i heard her moan. I thought oh no herewe go lmao

[@L1S91]

She is amazing

[@nickyfinn7909]

Best speech ever.

[@LuisRodriguez-bo4xg]

i remember this moment. she was precious and so well deserving. The musical's score was a tad depressing for all the other parts except the and the nanny, but wow what a moment for her!1

[@alexmeyer5260]

If she were still alive, I bet Audrey Hepburn would still be incredibly beautiful.

[@accomplice55]

@thisnigerianlovesdrinkingg4522 "Matter"? What's wrong with commenting about a woman who was beautiful inside and out?

[@scorpioninpink]

The power of Musical Theater. Young kids can compete with veterans on the stage.

[@kennethwayne6857]

Not a competition but I agree with the sentiment.

[@jasmynjohnson4346]

Dude I would look and sound just like her-

[@pshaw8406]

I distinctly remembering watching this. It's weird cause I thought I was an adult or teen but she and I are the same age.

[@oscarlover100]

Why the hell was LaChanze in the Featured Actress category???? Her role was leading!!! So was Daisy's too lol.

[@jenniferwalker8788]

Right! I saw La Chanze and I was like BULLSHIT! Both of them totes would have lost to Lea though.

[@TheMusikman487]

Sometimes the producers of shows will petition the Tony nominating committee to put some of their actors into different categories where they might have a better chance of winning (especially if they’re billed below the title). Wins = publicity for your show. Everyone knew Lea Salonga would be walking away with the best actress award, so putting LaChanze and Daisy into featured actress would guarantee them a nomination, and possibly a win.

[@5andup]

@@TheMusikman487 I cannot agree more👍👍👍 in the Oscars the same strategy applies... Viola Davis in 2016; Lakeith Stanfield this year for "Judas...," Juliette Binoche for "The English Patient" in 1996, etc.

[@gregoryb3341]

does it bother anyone that Lachanze was nominated for best featured actress and not leading actress.... once on this island is "the story of TIMOUNE" im sooooo lost smh and you can see it in her face i would be mad too sis

[@joeyhuang2189]

Gregory B Me too!

[@MarkvanBeelen]

I felt the same when I just watches this. If Timoune is not the lead in her own story, then who is? You can't compare Tumounde from OOTI with Martha from TSG, which was the role Allison Fraser was nominated for. And actually that goes the same for Mary Lennox. The story revolves around her and Archibald. You could say Lily is another lead and perhaps Neville Craven, but that's it. Mary is, just like Timoune, not a supporting (or in this case featured) character in her own story.

[@keshaunconnor606]

On a podcast, the lead producer of "A Secret Garden" said that despite her being the lead, they submitted Daisy in the Featured Actress category because, in Leading Actress, she would've been up against Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon. It may have been a similar situation with LaChanze. Producers trying to give her a better chance at winning against a phenomenon.

[@tomgallowitz]

@@keshaunconnor606 agreed Lea was unstoppable, they both would have lost if up against her, here at least one won

[@HelloWorld-ev9sg]

I think they did that to increase her chance of winning, since Salonga is untouchable that time.

[@Jordslife]

How old was she?

[@alberto8461]

eleven. And now she is 37.

[@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740]

Wow...eleven is young. She was the same age that the child actress from fun home got nominated at.

[@christophermarzian6608]

This is similar to Anna Paquin's Oscar acceptance speech when she was also 11. Glad they didn't try to play her off.

[@ggfanjase]

In no way was she actually a featured performance but whatever, it was a cool moment.

[@user-ht4ii1wi6u]

Not true, she deserved this 100%

[@ggfanjase]

Lauren Goodwin She deserved it but she was clearly the lead of that show and robbed someone else in that category of the award. She was only billed as Featured because she was unknown and thus only eligible for the Tony that way.

[@ChristophProbst]

ggfanjase - Right, I was thinking the same thing. She wasn't featured, she was the lead.

[@user-ht4ii1wi6u]

OK well lemme know when you achieve yours

[@ggfanjase]

Lauren Goodwin Sit there with a straight face and tell me she belonged in this category and not Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She might've lost against Lea Salonga that year but it would've been more honest and not total category fraud. The quality of Eagan's work was excellent, the placement of her nomination was ridiculous.

[@jacobgarrity9055]

She’s like the Shirley temple and Tatum o Neil

[@Preppy_pearl1987]

I know her son

[@ScratchthechalkBoard]

Audrey Hepburn did not look like she was at deaths door. Not in the least

[@pmcmahon2493]

Allison Fraser didn't look too pleased....

[@oscarlover100]

@Robert Lee, Countertenor Yeah, she got announced last for some reason when she should have been announced second.

[@naaraitilson5446]

She's playing Martha right now in 5th Avenue's production of The Secret Garden and she was so amazing.