PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
#1PLAYBILL.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
"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)
-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)
#2re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 3:45amNice Cue & A, I'd love to see her Fosca.
"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"
#2re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 9:31amI'd love to see her Fosca too!
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#4re: 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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#5re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 11:07amThat was cute! Even if she did have to shovel poo. lol
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#6re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 12:25pmI'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.
#7re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 1:02pmI love the tidbit about the 6 year old feeding her lines in The Sound of Music. Thanks for sharing!
#8re: 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.
(...)
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"
#9re: 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
#10re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 3:09pmI loved this Q and A. She's hilarious.
#11re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 4:10pmOne of her dream roles is Fiona in Brigadoon, which is being revived next year. Hmmmm.....
#12re: 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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Broadway_freak
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#13re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 6:37pmShe seems very genuine. I will hopefully being seeing her soon in Gypsy.
#14re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 6:39pmLoved it, Laura is great. And a Pushing Daisies fan! Thanks for posting.
#15re: 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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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#16re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/25/08 at 9:49pmVery Cute. She is amazing in Gypsy. Nice read
#17re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
Posted: 3/26/08 at 1:06amI hope she gets her wish to play Eliza. Oh, the possibilities! Get that Broadway revival under way! =)
#18re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
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
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