New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) Laura Benanti's "In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention: Live At 54 BELOW" will be released digitally on
September 6th and on CD on
September 10, 2013. The CD is now available for pre-order at https://amzn.com/B00CRU5YW0. The track listing and cover art were unveiled today by Broadway Records.
Following the tremendous success of her first solo show, which played sold out venues across the country, stage and television star
Laura Benanti debuted a brand new piece in May, "In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention." Fusing theatre standards with pop music and original songs, Ms. Benanti's unique blend of humor and vocal nuance delivered an unforgettable evening. In celebration of the release of her first album, audiences will have another chance to see the performer critics call "brilliantly funny" with an "exquisite voice," and whose mother calls "very very good," in a night that she desperately hopes brings her the right kind of attention. Ms. Benanti will be performing her return engagement at 54 BELOW Sept. 19-21.
"Having
Laura Benanti record her debut album as part of our 54 BELOW CD series is exciting for us as her contribution to the New York theatre scene is undeniable," says Kenny
Howard co-founder of Broadway Records, "it also continues to further our mission to preserve amazing Broadway talent in the incredible intimate setting of 54 BELOW."
Laura Benanti's new album is produced by
Aaron Ankrum and executive produced by Van Dean and Kenny Howard, of The Broadway Consortium, and Ken Mahoney. "In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention" is the latest in the "Live at 54 BELOW" series that started earlier this year with albums by Patti LuPone, Norbert Leo Butz, Christiane Noll and Andrea McArdle.
Aaron Tveit's "The
Radio In My Head" will also be released on
September 10th. More albums in the series will be announced shortly.
Showtimes are scheduled for Sept. 19 at 7 PM, Sept. 20 at 8 PM and 11 PM, and Sept. 21 at 8 PM.
Track Listing:
1. I'm Old Fashioned
2. My Time of Day
3. "
Welcome"
4. On The Street Where I Lived
5. "54 facts!"
6. Starry Eyed/Video Games
7. "Why I am the way that I am"
8. He Comes for Conversation
9. "We are being recorded"
10. Tilly's Aria/Frank and Tilly Make Love
11. "Todd Almond explains it all"
12.
Spring Is Coming
13. "My favorite thing that ever happened to me"
14. The Ukulele Song
15. "Canceled!"
16. New Mexico
17. "Last fact"
18. I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore
19. "Harry Chapin"
20. Mr. Tanner
21. "1-2-3 released!"
22. Unusual Way
23. "Good luck everyone"
24. Model Behavior
54 BELOW is owned and operated by Tony Award winning producers Tom Viertel, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, and Steven Baruch.
LAURA BENANTI has brought her unique abilities to comedies, dramas and musicals since she took Broadway by storm at the age of 18.
She received a
Drama Desk award, Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony Nomination for her starring role in the Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown for Lincoln Center, where she also starred in
Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play. Ms. Benanti also demonstrated her comic flair in the Public Theater's production of
Christopher Durang's Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them.
Ms. Benanti earned the 2008 Tony,
Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her revelatory portrayal of Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy opposite Patti LuPone and directed by Arthur Laurents.
Her other Broadway roles include her Tony,
Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominated performance of Cinderella in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and her sultry Tony nominated turn in Swing! She also starred opposite Antonio Banderas as his muse in the celebrated revival of Nine. Benanti began her multifaceted career as
Maria in The Sound of
Music opposite Richard Chamberlain.
Other distinguished theater performances include Perdita in The Winter's Tale at the Williamstown Theatre Festival opposite Kate Burton, Anne in A
Little Night
Music at the L.A. Opera opposite Victor Garber, and Eileen in City Center Encores Wonderful Town. Benanti completed a week-long engagement at the popular New York cabaret club, 54 Below, for which The New York Times hailed her as an "supremely confident" performer whose "bright, full soprano, with its semioperatic heft, can go almost anywhere."
Ms. Benanti recently wrapped production on the NBC sitcom GO ON in which she starred opposite Matthew Perry. Recently she starred in the NBC series The Playboy Club. Other television roles include recurring roles on Royal Pains, The
Big C and Law & Order: SVU. Benanti can be seen in the Films Take the Lead and Meskada.
For more about
Laura Benanti, visit her website at www.laurabenanti.com
