Broadway watchers over the past few years have known what a treasure Laura Benanti is: beauty, awesome singing chops and her not-so-secret weapon, killer comedy timing. Benanti's shtick (honed in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and cabaret appearances) is the hyper-confident/hyper-insecure striver, the Kimmy Schmidt-manic-pixie-dream-nerd, only not a male-projected fantasy.
SOURCE: Time Out at 01:07PM on April 5, 2015