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Attention musical theater people! If you’re doing this one thing, just know the queen, Laura Benanti, is judging you, okay? In this video, we caught up with Laura Benanti at the 2026 Tony Awards to hear her Broadway hot takes and learn more about her one-woman show ‘Laura Benanti: NOBODY CARES.’

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00:00Do you have a Broadway ick?
00:02A Broadway ick?
00:03When people bow in the curtain call in a way where they're like,
00:07you are welcome that I'm here and that I did this.
00:11I'm like, ew, all you did was a musical.
00:14No.
00:14That's a Broadway ick for me.
00:16Okay, fair.
00:17And do you have a Broadway hot take?
00:19A Broadway hot take?
00:21I think that Broadway, it's the nicest group of people in the theater industry.
00:28Are we the carnies of the theater industry?
00:30Yes.
00:31Are we also the nicest?
00:32And fun.
00:33We're fun, I think.
00:33I actually love that.
00:34Okay.
00:36What's your favorite vocal warm-up?
00:38It's really awful.
00:39It's this.
00:40Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah.
00:42But it's a classic and you need it.
00:44Instant classic.
00:45But it does make people go like, oh.
00:47Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:48And how does it feel to be in a one-woman show?
00:50You know, I wrote it.
00:51It's called Laura Benanti, Nobody Cares.
00:52It's a comedy show.
00:53I'm really proud of it.
00:55I co-wrote the songs with Todd Allman, just an amazing composer.
00:58And getting to just be funny and be a comedian and step into that and step into being a writer
01:03and not waiting for other people to write me something has felt really powerful.
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