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Exclusive: Watch Laura Benanti Break Down the 2023/24 Broadway Season
May 7, 2024
Feeling overwhelmed by this crowded Broadway season? Not to worry, Laura Benanti is here to break things down. She has definitely seen every one of these Broadway shows.
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Hi, my name is Laura Benanti and as a Tony Award winning actor
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I am the authority on all things Broadway. No one can dispute that
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I am here to explain the Broadway plays and musicals of the 2023-2024 season
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And I have definitely seen every single one of these shows. The Outsiders is about handsome boys on a poster hugging
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Lempicka is about an erectile dysfunction medicine. Great Gatsby is about... which one? Which one is it
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Suffs is about how on the opening night of Suffs, I stood directly next to Hillary Clinton
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My soul left my body and then my ghost sat in a seat in a theater watching Hillary Clinton
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watch a show about how women will have to march and march and march until the end of time
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Back to the Future is about a kid who kisses his mom. How to Dance in Ohio is about the jitterbug because it's the only legal dance in Ohio
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Days of Wine and Roses is about every single day at 4.59 p.m
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Plus roses. Hell's Kitchen is about where I made a lot of questionable choices in the early 2000s
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Gutenberg is about how I was their special guest one single time
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The Wiz is about the cool wizard of us. Merrily We Roll Along..
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I wouldn't know because I have never been married one single day in my entire life
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The Who's Tommy is about... Who's Tommy? Grey House is about a pretty neutral color for a house
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Mary Jane is about... Cabaret is about Liza Minnelli stretched out on a piano
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Mother Play is about the woman that everyone should listen to but nobody does
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Patriots is about deflating footballs. Stereophonic is about one of those old-timey record player thingies with the..
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with the cone. Heart of Rock and Roll is your weird uncle's favorite show about cardboard boxes
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Water for Elephants is about... water for elephants. The Cottage is about the second home I will never have
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Illinois is about how my toddler pronounces Illinois. The Shark is broken
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Somebody fix that shark! Uncle Vanya is not about your Aunt Carol
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An Enemy of the People is about low-rise jeans. Doubt is about... I don't know
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The Notebook is about making it rain. Appropriate is the opposite of my show for children under the age of 16
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Listen, if you want to see a show whose title is pretty self-explanatory
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come see me doing my one-woman comedy show, Lara Benanti Nobody Cares
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at Audible's Minetta Lane Theater for 18 performances only beginning May 9th
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I'll see you there. Actually, I won't see you, but I will see you seeing me
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which is honestly my favorite thing to see. you
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