Timing, as it turns out, is everything. Over the summer, Emmy, now 9, was cast as little Cosette and young Eponine in the traveling Broadway production of “Les Misérables.” And over the next ...

“Basically, I was up for two roles,” she said. “I had the look of Cosette and the range vocally of Éponine, so it was established I was there for a good time but not for a long tim ...