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Mark O’Looney and Eoin Cannon always wanted to be parents. They met 10 years ago when O’Looney auditioned for a part in a musical that Cannon was directing — he didn’t get the part but he did find the love of his life. They migrated from Dublin to New York City in 2018 and got married in a quiet ceremony in Central Park in 2021. Halfway through building their dream family, they found that fatherhood would be a double-edged sword — the birth of their daughter through surrogacy in the US...

Updated / Tuesday, 16 Feb 2021 13:00 Mark OLooney, producer of the new Irish musical Daddy Long Legs, writes for "When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an empty, gnawing sort of sensation." - Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs I think we can all relate to that empty sensation over the past few months. For me, it comes at around 7.30 pm every night when I would usually be sitting in a theatre, ideally watching a musical. I’...

Daddy Long Legs on stream.theatre. The award-winning show with music and lyrics by Paul Gordon and a book by John Caird, is based on the classic novel by Jean Webster that inspired the 1955 film starring Fred Astaire. It follows an orphan, Jerusha, as she is aided by a mysterious benefactor. Directed by Killian Collins and Mark OLooney, with musical direction by David Wray, the piece stars Eoin Cannon ( Angelas Ashes The Musical) and Róisín Sullivan ( A Man of No Importance). You can watch a ...