11-year old Sydney Lucas up for a Tony Award for "Fun Home"

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The new play Fun Home isn't just in the running for Best Musical at this weekend's Tony Awards.

It's also bringing this year's youngest competitor to the awards: 11-year old Sydney Lucas.

Fun Home is the best musical I have seen this season. It's set in a funeral home run by a very dysfunctional family.

It's a memoir: One woman's look back at her life, and the story is told by a trio of performers, who each play "Alison" at different ages.

At the age of 11, Sydney Lucas is wise beyond her years, which is exactly what's required for the youngest of three performers playing the same character in Fun Home.

The musical is a coming of age story about a gay woman who looks back on her life and tries to make sense of her family.

"Trying to figure out what her family was. Trying to figure out the mysteries of her family," said Sydney.

The women who play Alison at various ages were all nominated for a Tony Award. So were the performers who play her parents.

"Without everybody helping each other, none of us would've gotten a nomination," Sydney said.

Helping her keep it all in perspective is Karri Lucas, who seems more like a soccer mom than a stage mother.

"I mean a Mom's job is to support her child, right?", she said. "And, I feel that's what I do."

Her daughter was just 4 years old when she found her calling.

"She got very persistent and started hounding me, and I said 'OK, I will look into it,'" said Karri.

She had a manager by the age of 6, and has been working steadily ever since.

"It's easy because I love it. When you love something, it's easy," Sydney said.

When she is not working Sydney Lucas is in school, telling me that if she gets good grades then she will "succeed in life".

The young star plans to go to college and her mother told me the money Sydney earns now goes directly into her college fund. But she has no plans to give up acting.