Laura Benanti Quotes (7 Quotes)

Since he's in the business, Chris Barron fortunately understands the demands of his wife's career. Even though he sings rock and roll, ... he loves musical theatre maybe even more than I do. He loves Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein. . .

Food is the most basic forum for discussing things like love and the absence of love how we hurt ourselves and how we heal ourselves.

Also a songwriter (and guitarist), she's working on a solo CD. It's kind of up in the air, ... I'm having a hard time I want to make it special. Musical theatre is my first love. My writing is sort of folk-rock. I get compared to Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell though I'm not nearly as talented as either. Neither a straight-pop album nor a musical-theatre album seems the way to go. I want to take my music and orchestrate it in a kind of old fashioned style, and take some standards and 'popularize' them do a true crossover. I'm working on it.

Of Yugoslavian-German-Irish-Native American heritage, she was raised in Kinnelon, NJ, the daughter of Dr. Salvatore Benanti, a psychotherapist, and the former Linda Wonneberger, who's Laura's vocal coach. Younger sister Mariel is a sophomore (and psych major) at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's University. I love her ... She's wonderful, so bright, and so athletic the most generous person. I constantly try to be more like her.

I hate to sound like a Pollyanna, ... but in a way the ordeal was kind of a blessing. It puts things in perspective. You learn who your friends are you realize the importance of family. I was 18 when I did Sound of Music . My life started to get very linear I started to get tunnel vision. The injury opened my eyes as to how I wanted to be as a human being.

For the November 2004 National AIDS benefit performance of Pippin , she played Catherine, opposite Michael Arden ( who was fantastic ... I couldn't believe that Ben Vereen remembered me by name 'Hi, Laura'...'Hi, Ben Vereen'

It's a difficult subject matter, especially for a comedy. It's not everyone's cup of tea. People magazine gave it four stars the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times hated it. We had eight days to do each of the seven half-hour episodes, and it was filmed out of sequence. I'm proud of my work in it I felt like I did a pretty good job. The reviews for me have been nice. I loved working with Sterling Brown and Del Pentecost. It was a great learning experience.