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On this episode this episode I talked with DeLaney about what made her fall in love with theatre, the first show see saw and the first show she was in that made her realize that acting and being on stage was in fact a career path she could take, how she worked on becoming a well rounded performer growing up, college auditions and what made her choose to go study theatre at BYU, getting to star as Christine in a production of Phantom Of The Opera while at BYU, how she got her audition for Side Show on Broadway and what the audition process was like, the day she made her Broadway debut, how she handled the responsibility that came with not only being a swing in Side Show, but understudying both leads (Daisy and Violet), getting cast to go on the Beautiful tour in between Side Show and Kinky Boots and what makes tour life special, getting cast in Lauren in Kinky Boots on Broadway, what made Lauren a character she enjoyed playing, how she makes roles her own, her dream roles, and MUCH MORE!
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DeLaney is an actor originally from St. George, Utah. She received her BFA from Brigham Young University in Music Dance Theater. Since graduating from college, DeLaney has taken her talents to New York City where she now resides. In 2014 she was cast in the Kennedy Center pre-Broadway revival of Side Show. She then followed the production to New York where it played at the St. James Theater. After closing the show in winter 2015, she was cast as Cosette in Pennsylvania Shakespeare's production of Les Miserables. Following that, she began rehearsals for the North American First National Tour of Beautiful the Carole King Musical where you could find her in the roles of Marilyn Wald and understudying Cynthia Weil. In August, DeLaney took on the principal role of Lauren in the smash hit Kinky Boots. She finished her run in January and immediately started rehearsals for Barrow Street Theater's critically acclaimed, award-winning production of Sweeney Todd. She was fortunate enough to close the show and celebrate with Stephen Sondheim at the after party. In August 2019, DeLaney joined the Broadway production of Beautiful the Carole King Musical until that show’s closing in October 2019.
