Laura Benanti Musical Quotations

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

Musical theatre is my first love.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.

There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time.

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.