Daisy Eagan Also Pulls Out of Odessa Gypsy

By: Jul. 19, 2005
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Following Maria Friedman's lead, sources tell BroadwayWorld.com that Tony-winner Daisy Eagan has also pulled out of the previously-announced production of Gypsy at the Ector Theatre.

The last month has not been a kind one to the Odessa, TX theatre. It was recently announced that Olivier Award winner Friedman (Passion, Lady in the Dark) pulled out of the show after her reps informed her that producer Tony Georges had cast, among others, his mother and his hairdresses in a now-cancelled production of Sweeney Todd. The grisly Sondheim classic was to have starred Betty Buckley and Shuler Hensley. Georges had stated that the cancellation was due to his not being able to live up to contracts with the production and said, "To do this show in the circumstances that we found ourselves in would have been irresponsible."

On top of the Friedman and Sweeney Todd fiascos, Bernadette Peters cancelled her appearance, citing a breach of contract; she had been scheduled to perform at the Ector Theatre in August. According to her agent, the reason for her withdrawal was a lack of scheduled payment as well as a contract from Georges. Peters stated that she would not consider rescheduling her gig at the theatre "in the near future."

Eagan would have played Gypsy's Louise, the young girl who blossoms into stripper Gypsy Rose Lee after her monstrously fame-obsessed mother pushes her onto center stage. Eagan made her Broadway debut as Young Cosette in Les Miserables before going on to win a Tony for playing Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden in 1991. She was 11 years old at the time of victory, and remains the youngest actress to win a Tony Award. She has since appeared on Broadway in James Joyce's The Dead and recently ended a run in A View from the Bridge at the South Coast Repertory in California.



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