![]() I would never wish for someone to have an injury, especially one requiring CPR, just so I could get a good photo.It probably made me a terrible celebrity, but a good person.Overall, the day was going well. I knew she meant well, but it just showed me the disconnect between our worlds. ![]() “I meant, it would have been some great press to have you save someone's life.”I smiled and nodded politely. too bad,” I agreed, sarcasm dripping off my voice.“Oh, I didn't mean.” Sophie went a pretty pink. I was fairly sure that had been Sophie's intent when dressing me this morning.“Right. I wore a light blue pant suit that made me think of super fancy scrubs. She wore a pristine cream dress with matching heels. “It's too bad no one needed CPR,” Sophie lamented as we walked down a corridor of the hospital. A Midwestern Cinderella Chapter Thirty-Two.I want this to go well, remember?”I wanted to stick my tongue out at We're going to practice in the morning before we leave,” Sophie replied. ![]() They wanted the good stories about me coming out instead of just more pictures of my scandalously bare shoulders.“Yes. I wasn't ready for our hospital visit, but Sophie and Liam both wanted it done as soon as possible. “Well, it's something for us to work on tomorrow.”“But tomorrow we're going to the hospital.” A small ripple of fear went through me. I was exhausted.Princess training was hard work.“I thought you were kidding,” Sophie said. I was waiting for her to leave so that I could slouch and flop into bed. I sat demurely on a high-backed chair in my room. “Well, other than the whole walking in high-heels part.”“I did warn you,” I replied. “You did well today,” Sophie said, picking up her purse and carefully tucking it over her shoulder. A Midwestern Cinderella Chapter Thirty-One.The Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical arrives at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre April 13 for an opening April 25. Into the Woods plays at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre through March 24. With such fantastic success, she intimately understands the irony in her self-penned song "Supergirl": "I promise we'll go flying/as soon as I pick myself up off the ground." In these few roles, Benanti has established herself as a future Broadway superstar, a diva in training. But it is as Maria and as Ann Hampton Callaway's fellow female vocalist and now as the Sondheim's Cinderella that Benanti has made her biggest mark. So, she, like Alice Ripley and Adam Pascal, is exploring a music career outside standard Broadway fare. The genre will become more interesting if the people in it are more interesting," she said. People my age need to see more of them, but in different ways. "Musical theatre performers aren't seen as their whole person. While she won't say "cheesy" ("the word cheesy makes me want to kill someone"), Benanti recognizes a certain reputation that musical theatre performers suffer from - that they are dorky song-and-dance men and women, stuck in some 1950s idealized version of, say, Oklahoma!. And Vanessa has been really kind in introducing me to people." "It's one thing I've been working on out here. Benanti expects to release the album within the year. "It's completly not musical theatre," she said, describing her singer-songwriter style as a combination of Tori Amos ("I come from a piano background"), Melissa Etheridge ("but grittier, bluesy") and the electronica of Welsh singer-songwriter David Gray. Although the star is well-loved for her renditions of classic tunes like "My Favorite Things" and "Skylark," she promises her upcoming album will be composed entirely of her own songs. While singing the part of her character's mother, Benanti said, "I try to endow the image with a little of my mother."īenanti, a 22-year-old New Jersey girl with several theatrical credits behind her including leads in two Broadway shows, is also hard at work on her first solo album. They wanted that family resemblence," Benanti said. It's basically my face and they blended it into the trees. How is this accomplished? "An altered image of me is projected onto a screen. Laura Benanti, the Tony-nominated star of Swing! and The Sound of Music, sings both Cinderella and Cinderella's Mother. In Into the Woods, Merle Louise as Cinderella's Mother originally sang these words to Kim Crosby's Cinderella, but with the new revised revival, things are playing a bit differently. Are you certain what you wish is what you want?"
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