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I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.
Laura Benanti
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Laura Benanti
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: July 15
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Laura Ilene Benanti
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I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical theatre performers and tap dancers and orchestras and dog acts. You had to leave your home, be in the presence of other people, know how to behave, and enjoy the human being whose beating heart was in front of you.
Laura Benanti
I really do love the Muppets. My sister used to call them the Muffets. She'd be like, Can we watch the Muffets? So anything that reminds me of how adorable my sister was, I'm a big fan of.
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We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.
Laura Benanti
I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
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Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.
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Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky. Unless you're dealing with a revival, which is why I do so many revivals - because my specific tone and vocal quality lends itself to that type of writing.
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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
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My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.
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Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.
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I think it's a deeper issue on the lack of communication in our culture in general. It's not abnormal to see a family out to dinner and every person is on their phone instead of communicating with each other and that's pretty sad.
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I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell jokes. So it's sort of a stand up show meets a concert - not your traditional lounging across a piano cabaret show. It's much looser.
Laura Benanti
Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.
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Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.
Laura Benanti
I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.
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What's the worst, is when people clearly haven't researched you. One time an interviewer asked me if I do a lot of plays. I'm like, yeah. Have you Googled me? There's this thing called Google, and you can ask Google that question. Then you could come to me with informed questions that didn't make me feel like I am brand new to the world.
Laura Benanti
I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.
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That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.
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There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time.
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I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.
Laura Benanti
I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.
Laura Benanti
