PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

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PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 12:36am

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

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 3:45am

Nice Cue & A, I'd love to see her Fosca.

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 9:31am

I'd love to see her Fosca too!

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Posted: 3/25/08 at 9:36am

Very nice. Thanks WBaF.

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 9:43am

Nice I have always liked her and hope to get to see GYPSY.

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 11:07am

That was cute! Even if she did have to shovel poo. lol

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 12:25pm

I'm so sad she didn't take the opportunity to tell us all to get lives again. I've been waiting for her to call me to reality.

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 1:02pm

I love the tidbit about the 6 year old feeding her lines in The Sound of Music. Thanks for sharing!

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 1:26pm

This is my favorite part:

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!

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"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"

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 2:08pm

I'm so excited that one of her dream roles is Fionna in Brigadoon. She would be brilliant!

Updated On: 3/25/08 at 02:08 PM

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 3:09pm

I loved this Q and A. She's hilarious.

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Posted: 3/25/08 at 4:10pm

One of her dream roles is Fiona in Brigadoon, which is being revived next year. Hmmmm.....

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 4:56pm

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.
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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 6:37pm

She seems very genuine. I will hopefully being seeing her soon in Gypsy.

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Posted: 3/25/08 at 6:39pm

Loved it, Laura is great. And a Pushing Daisies fan! Thanks for posting.

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 7:50pm

"My first professional stage kiss was Richard Chamberlain. Not to shabby huh? "

Really, Playbill.com? To vs. too has escaped you? GRRR.

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/25/08 at 9:49pm

Very Cute. She is amazing in Gypsy. Nice read

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re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti

Posted: 3/26/08 at 1:06am

I hope she gets her wish to play Eliza. Oh, the possibilities! Get that Broadway revival under way! =)

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 1:22am

Did you guys see this Laura article/interview from the NY TIMES? It's wonderful.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/theater/23mcge.html?_r=1&oref=slogin