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PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Laura Benanti
By Ernio Hernandez
25 Mar 2008
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Laura Benanti
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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.
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Full given name:
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Laura Ilene Benanti
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Hometown:
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Kinnelon, NJ (but I was born in Manhattan)
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Zodiac sign:
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Cancer (and I really am...through and through)
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Audition song:
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I sang "One More Kiss" from Follies for my first Broadway audition (The Sound of Music)
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Special skills:
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I don't know. I am learning how to cook and I am actually pretty good so maybe that?
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First Broadway show ever saw:
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The first Broadway show I remember seeing is The Tap Dance Kid.
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If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be?
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I would go back in time and see all the original R and H shows...and I would want to see the original West Side Story and Gypsy.
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Current show you have been recommending to friends:
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August: Osage County. I didn't want it to be over. It is the most astonishing thing I have seen in years. That ensemble of actors went beyond any "acting" I have ever seen.
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Favorite showtune:
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My favorite show tune is literally anything that Stephen Sondheim ever wrote. I am not kissing up. It is true!
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MAC or PC?
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MAC...but it is basically a glorified typewriter to me. I am not computer literate.
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One CD you couldn't live without:
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Tori Amos..."Little Earthquakes."
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Last book you read:
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Arthur Laurents "Original Story By." Again...not kissing up...totally true.
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Must-see TV show:
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"Pushing Daisies." I love that show. Oh...and "Eli Stone." :-)
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Favorite card/board game:
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A variation on solitaire that my grandma taught me. I call her mamoo and I call the game mamoootsie. Favorite board game is "Catch Phrase" my entire family is obsessed.
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Pop culture guilty pleasure:
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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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First stage kiss:
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My first professional stage kiss was Richard Chamberlain. Not to shabby huh?
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Favorite pre-/post-show meal:
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Pre-show: carrots. Post-show: French fries ;-)
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How you got your Equity card:
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Doing Jane Eyre (not the musical) and Man of La Mancha at the wonderful Papermill Playhouse.
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Worst flubbed line:
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When I went up during "Do Re Mi" and a 6-year-old fed me my lines...."A needle pulling thread." Pretty embarrassing.
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Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition?
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I have NEVER been on "Law & Order." Seriously, I hope they read this. I think the time has come.
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Worst costume ever:
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Lets just say that the 80's weren't really my decade.
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Favorite cereal:
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I eat a weird hot cereal called Quinoa flakes. It's actually really good.
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Who would play you in the movie?
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My sister Marielle. She would be great.
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Worst job you ever had:
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Shoveling manure into bags at the farmers market in my town when I was 17. Hysterically enough I was on Broadway three months after that job ended. During tech, I always remind myself that I could be shoveling poo.
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What leading lady role have you been dying to play?
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I have always wanted to play Eliza in My Fair Lady, Fiona in Brigadoon and Fosca in Passion. Not to sound cheesy but playing Louise in Gypsy is a dream. Please don't wake me.
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