As It Happens6:21When Evita’s star and understudy fell ill, this actress drove 240 km to save the show
When Jessica Daley got a text on Saturday offering her the lead role in a stage production of Evita, she didn’t have much time to think about it.
That’s because the musical opened that very evening at a theatre in Leicester, England, 240 kilometres away from her Middlesbrough home.
Both the lead actress and the understudy had fallen suddenly ill, and only Daley — who had played the role in an international production five years ago — could save the show.
“I had to throw everything
