TWITTER BREAK: Ten Terrific Tweets From SHE LOVES ME's Laura Benanti
By: Michael Dale Nov. 17, 2015
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From the time she made her Broadway debut in the 1998 revival of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, eventually playing the leading role of Maria, until the moment when she won a Tony Award for playing the awkward Louise who finds her calling as a strip-tease artist in GYPSY, the word "quirky" was not one you'd use to describe the performances by Laura Benanti.
But then came a hilarious Off-Broadway turn in Christopher Durang's WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM, followed by equally funny antics on Broadway in IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY) and WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.
The newly-wed Benanti will be starring later this season in Roundabout's revival of Bock and Harnick's classic, SHE LOVES ME, and it's a safe bet her Twitter followers will be hearing all about it with quirky tweets like these clever gems:
This was a seriously underrated work of art. pic.twitter.com/podbGrR2UU
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) September 1, 2015
Today my breakfast was a tootsie pop in a doctors office waiting room so don't tell me I can't have it all.
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) November 13, 2015
I love people who ask you how you're doing and then PANIC when you say anything other than "oh my gosh I'm so great!!!"
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) November 12, 2015
My superpower is accidentally looking dudes directly in the eyes while they are adjusting their junk.
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) November 3, 2015
Either the dude I just passed on the street JUST finished the marathon, or I just witnessed my first marathon walk of shame. #just
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) November 2, 2015
When people tell me they are "their own worst enemy" I'm like "You must not have any real enemies."
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) October 28, 2015
Always happy to put a little side eye into the Sound of Music. Photo credit: my lavender husband @chad_hodge pic.twitter.com/4Qq8o1RmkS
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) October 25, 2015
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the cashier who just tossed my box of tampons in the air and caught them doesn't live with a woman.
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) October 23, 2015
Getting my sexy "passive aggressive neighbor who hates your dog" costume ready for Halloween.
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) October 22, 2015
My current mood would most accurately be described as "30 minutes early for my therapy session"
- Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) October 6, 2015
As part of Roundabout's 50th Anniversary Season, She Loves Me will star Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Amalia) and Zachary Levi (Georg), alongside René Auberjonois (Maraczek), Gavin Creel(Kodaly), Michael McGrath (Sipos) and Jane Krakowski (Ilona). The new Broadway production will be directed by Scott Ellis, choreographed by Warren Carlyle with musical direction by Paul Gemignani. This classic musical comedy features a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock.
The cast will also feature Nicholas Barasch (Arpad) and Peter Bartlett (Head Waiter) and ensemble membersCameron Adams, Alison Cimmet, Justin Bowen, Preston Truman Boyd, Benjamin Eakeley, Sara Edwards, Michael Fatica, Gina Ferrall, Jenifer Foote, Andrew Kober, Laura Shoop, Jim Walton.
In a special celebration of Roundabout's 50th Anniversary season, She Loves Me returns to Broadway in a new production led by Roundabout's Associate Artistic Director Scott Ellis. Ellis directed Roundabout's ten-time Tony nominated revival of She Loves Me in 1993, which marked the first Broadway musical in the company's history and launched the Musical Theatre Program at Roundabout. Highlights from Roundabout's Musical Theatre Program include Cabaret, Nine, Assassins, Violet, The Pajama Game, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Sunday in the Park with George, Anything Goes and On the Twentieth Century.
The creative team includes David Rockwell (sets), Jeff Mahshie (costumes), Don Holder (Lights), Jon Weston(Sound), Larry Hochman (Orchestrations), David Krane (Dance Arrangements & Incidental Music).
Roundabout Theatre Company welcomes back celebrated Broadway performer Jane Krakowski after her Tony-winning performance in Roundabout's 2003 Broadway production of Nine. Laura Benanti also starred in Roundabout's production of Nine and Jane Krakowsi and Peter Bartlett starred in a special one-night only gala reading of She Loves Me in 2011. The company of She Loves Me represents many Roundabout alumni including Nicholas Barasch Alison Cimmet, Justin Bowen, Preston Truman Boyd, Benjamin Eakeley, Gina Ferrall, Jenifer Foote and Jim Walton.
She Loves Me is a heartwarming musical comedy classic about finding love the good old-fashioned way. It follows Georg (Levi) and Amalia (Benanti), two parfumerie clerks who aren't quite the best of friends. Constantly bumping heads while on the job, the sparring coworkers can't seem to find common ground. But little do they know, the anonymous romantic pen pals they have both been falling for happen to be each other! Will love continue to blossom once their identities are finally revealed?
The celebrated score features favorites such as "Vanilla Ice Cream", "A Romantic Atmosphere", "Dear Friend" and "She Loves Me." The musical is based on a play by Miklos Laszlo, whose well-known romantic story was the basis for the 1940 James Stewart film "The Shop Around the Corner" and the 1998 Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan film "You've Got Mail".
Major support for She Loves Me is provided by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.
She Loves Me benefits from Roundabout's Musical Theatre Fund with lead gifts from The Howard Gilman Foundation and Perry and Marty Granoff.
Tickets to She Loves Me are available by calling 212.719.1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org, and in person at Roundabout's Studio 54 Box office (254 West 54th Street). Single tickets for She Loves Me range in price from $52-$147.
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