LAURA BENANTI Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 8 p.m. Recently seen as star of the NBC TV series, "The Playboy Club", Tony Award winner Laura Benanti makes her Bay Area Cabaret debut at our Spring Season Finale. For her role as Louise/Gypsy Rose Lee in the Broadway revival of Gypsy, opposite Patti LuPone, Laura won the Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Other Broadway credits include Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Tony and Drama League nominations), Into The Woods (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and LA Ovation nominations), Nine (opposite Antonio Banderas - Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations) and Swing! (Tony nomination). Ms. Benanti has appeared in film, TV and numerous concerts around the country (sometimes with her husband, actor Steven Pasquale) and received rave reviews for her recent debut at Feinstein's in New York. To kickoff Ms. Benanti's closing performance, charismatic and talented 2011 Bay Area Teen Idol winner Robert Conte Thornton will make his Bay Area Cabaret debut Laura Benanti - "Gypsy Strip" |
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