Laura Benanti — star of Broadway's current revival of GYPSY — fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits. PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Nice I have always liked her and hope to get to see GYPSY.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Pop Culture Guilty Pleasure: Trashy magazines. They are terrible but I convince myself that it all evens out because I also read the New York Times. Much like I convince myself that it's okay to eat French fries because I also eat carrots.
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Favorite pre-/post-show meal: Pre-show: carrots. Post-show: French fries
Completely adorable!
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Once again, Benanti proves herself to be a sweet, real human being. After reading so much negative about her, I remember being shocked at how sweet she was in the promot interviews for the WEDDING SINGER on the movie DVD. Broadway Blog: The Mary Martin Quiz: The Answers