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My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.
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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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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The average age of a model is fifteen years old. It's so crazy to me. And how confusing for men they're like, Well, I'm supposed to be attracted to that image - like that's what it's designed for - but it's a fifteen year old girl. I think it's a very confusing thing for every single person involved.
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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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Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.
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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.
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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.
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I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.
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I think we've become a TV culture where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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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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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.
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I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn.
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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.
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Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny it just means that's how your pipes are set up.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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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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There were TVs everywhere. When we weren't on stage, we were watching what America was watching and rooting for each other and our leading lady. That experience was incredible, and I was just enjoying myself.
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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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Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.
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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.
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If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was an important journey for me at least.
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