For the first time, a visually-impaired child will portray Helen Keller in a Broadway production of The Miracle Worker. (Well, if Abigail Breslin is sick.)

84-year-old Sylvia Bailey has been ushering at The Phantom of the Opera since Broadway's longest-running show opened in 1988. Says she, "‘The Phantom' isn't going anywhere and neither am I." [NYT]