Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
#1Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/11/08 at 5:58pmI know that Laura Benanti used to come out the stage door regularly when Gypsy started its run, but the only report I've seen of her coming out the stage door in the past month was the Tuesday after the Tonys (the first show after she got the award). Does anyone know of any other times she has come out and signed since the Tony awards?
#2re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/11/08 at 6:07pmLast Sunday.
#2re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/13/08 at 11:21pmShe didn't come out the Thursday or Friday after Tony night. But thats all I know of.
Luckydave14
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#3re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/13/08 at 11:28pmYesterday when I was waiting in the Xanadu rush line at around 5:30, Laura and her husband walked down the sidewalk and then crossed the street to go to Broadway Barks, so I'm assuming she would have come out of the stage door and signed for fans waiting after the matinee.
#4re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 12:01amMaybe, like Louise Brookes and Junior Laemmle, she's just "gone to bed."
LadyRosecoe
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/07
#5re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 12:12am
The title of this thread made me laugh at the thought that she has NOT left the theater since winning a Tony. She is SO infatuated with the idea of her being this Broadway mega star that she has yet to come out into the real world! She sleeps in the Act 1 pajamas, chills in her dressing room in her shabby homemade outfits, and attends parties via webcam dressed in her pretty Eden gown. 
#6re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 3:20amLadyRosecoe, thank you for making me laugh this late at night. Something about that image of her just forever living in the St. James makes me laugh.
#7re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 3:46amShe didn't come out when I saw it which was about a week or so before the Tonys.
#8re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 4:26amHaha, stars do not always come out at certain shows! I, for example, have been at the Legally Blonde stagedoor seven times and have only met Orfeh AND Christian Borle once!
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#9re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 6:23amShe didn't after Saturday night a couple of weeks ago. I haven't been back to the door since then.
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#10re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 8:25amLaura was advised by her doctor not to do the stage door when she got walking pneumonia. Now that the weather is better, it may happen with more frequency.
PitPro2004
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/04
#11re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 8:32amShe posed with a group of 6 of my friends last week. Her smile could not have been bigger! :)
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#12re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 10:30am
I'm sure she does come out, but I personally have bad Laura luck. First I missed her at the Wedding Singer stagedoor, and then when I went to see Gypsy she didn't come out either 
Not that I'm at ALL insinuating anything bad about her- she seems like a sweetheart- it's just it made me sad because I want to meet her!! lol
Ah well, perhaps next time. I DO intend on seeing Gypsy again (and again, and again)... so.. :P
#13re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 10:32amI hear that if she does come out and sees her shadow, we'll have six more weeks of winter.
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PitPro2004
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/04
#14re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 10:41am
"I hear that if she does come out and sees her shadow, we'll have six more weeks of winter."
LOL..I just did the perfect spit take...all over my laptop!
broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#15re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 10:52am
She didn't stage door when I saw it on May 30, but neither did Boyd Gaines.
Patti did...after the announcement of no pictures but she'll sign anything.:)
#16re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 11:00am
Oh best12bars. I had the same idea. But like a good little writer, I went through dozens of drafts of the joke until I got what I thought was a keeper. And here you beat me to it and nailed it.
Ps my version finally came down to:
"Apparently, if she comes out and sees her shadow, Passing Strange gets two more months on Broadway."
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#17re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 12:32pmShe generally leaves through the Jujamcyn Offices door, which is to the west of the St. James.
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#18re: Has Laura Benanti come out the stage door since the Tonys?
Posted: 7/14/08 at 1:16pm
Patti did...after the announcement of no pictures but she'll sign anything.:)
Not quite anything. She would not sign a plain notebook someone had open to a blank page. But it did seem like if it was a playbill, window card or CD of something she was involved with she was fine with it.
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