"Benanti is a stunner--but it was in this final section of the show that I saw *her* working. This was particularly true in the dressing room confrontation where I never quite bought her bellowing, "I said TURN IT OFF." It felt forced, especially on Broadway, where she seemed to push a lot harder than she did at City Center. "
I agree with you about that particular moment, but though of course I have no way of knowing this for sure, I have always felt that Benanti bellowed or screamed that line in exactly the way she was instructed to by Arthur Laurents. I just don't think she would have made the decision to scream it so loudly and wildly on her own. |
