{"id":347642,"date":"2026-06-08T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=347642"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:41:01","slug":"caissie-levy-praises-kids-babysitters-at-tony-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/caissie-levy-praises-kids-babysitters-at-tony-awards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Caissie Levy Praises Kids\u2019 Babysitters at Tony Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Caissie Levy<\/strong> attributed her 2026 Tony Award win, partially, to a support network of babysitters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to \u2026 every babysitter who\u2019s made it possible for me to be each a Broadway actor and a mother,\u201d the mom-of-two, 45, said during her Tony Awards acceptance speech inside Latest York City\u2019s Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7.<\/p>\n<p>Winning within the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her work as Mother within the revival of <em>Ragtime<\/em>, Levy also thanked her children, Izaiah, 10, and Talulah, 5, whom she shares with husband <strong>David Reiser<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to my <em>Ragtime<\/em> family,\u201d Levy began. \u201cPlaying Mother has been considered one of the best gifts of my artistic life, and being mother to my kids has been the best joy of my life. Izaiah and Talulah, I like you, and although I\u2019m not there to tuck you in each night, you could have to know that a part of my heart stays home with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Brianne Howey Gushes Over Nanny\u2019s Assistance During \u2018Ginny and Georgia\u2019<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMany famous working parents aren\u2019t afraid to shout-out their nannies. Thank You! You will have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Enter your email Please enter a sound email. Subscribe By signing up, I comply with the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from Us Weekly Deal of the Day Amazon Shoppers Are \u2018Obsessed\u2019 With [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Levy\u2019s speech, which touched on her childhood dreams of becoming a Broadway star while growing up in Canada, concluded, \u201cI like acting, I like theater, I like this incredible community. I\u2019m so honored, thanks a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Levy also thanked her parents, who joined her on the awards ceremony, and Reiser, a composer and author. \u201cMy husband, David, where are you \u2014 wave at me, hi \u2014I\u2019m so happy with the life we\u2019ve built together,\u201d she said. \u201cI like you, you\u2019re the very best thing that ever happened to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You will have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>While <em>Ragtime<\/em> has kept Levy on Broadway since October 2025, the actress stepped away from the Broadway-bound <em>Lost Boys<\/em> musical in November that 12 months as a result of the demand of her family. She told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/theater\/a71423272\/caissie-levy-ragtime-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Elle<\/em><\/a> in an interview published on May 29 that her children had a \u201cvery difficult begin to the college 12 months\u201d and needed more from her. \u201cIt became very obvious in a matter of weeks that there was no way I could return right into a [rehearsal] process [for <em>The Lost Boys<\/em>] and mainly be gone for 3 months straight from my kids\u2019 lives,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Paying tribute to the kid care network she referenced in her Tony Awards speech, Levy added that their support has been crucial in getting her to where she is today. \u201cI\u2019m very fortunate to have this support system that definitely is integral to creating a Broadway schedule work. The babysitters and nannies of the world, they&#8217;re the heroes of my life, truly, they usually at all times have been,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve had past students of mine grow to be little sisters who&#8217;ve helped me with my children. 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Whitney Leavitt, Julianne Hough, Pink, Queen Latifah, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alex Newell, Adrienne Warren, Dylan Mulvaney and more performed multiple in the course of the Sunday, June 7, awards show at Radio City Music Hall in Latest [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Levy continued, \u201cI&#8217;m at all times all about lifting up the babysitters and the nannies and the, type of, tribes that we lean on to assist raise our children. To get to boost kids on this environment is so amazing, to have them backstage on the theater and have all these aunties and uncles within the forged and crew. It does take a complete village of individuals to assist you do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caissie Levy attributed her 2026 Tony Award win, partially, to a support network of babysitters. \u201cThanks to \u2026 every babysitter who\u2019s made it possible for me to be each a Broadway actor and a mother,\u201d the mom-of-two, 45, said during her Tony Awards acceptance speech inside Latest York City\u2019s Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[1753,52630,39487,1509,16563,5626,5328],"class_list":["post-347642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-awards","tag-babysitters","tag-caissie","tag-kids","tag-levy","tag-praises","tag-tony"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347645,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347642\/revisions\/347645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}