(AGENPARL) – mar 02 aprile 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 2, 2024
Back By Popular Demand!
Audible Theater Presents
Encore Engagement of
LAURA BENANTI: NOBODY CARES
Written By and Starring
Tony Award Winner Laura Benanti
Featuring Original Music Created with Todd Almond
Directed by Annie Tippe
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18 Performances Only
Running Thursday, May 9 – Sunday, June 2
at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre
Audio Release of Nobody Cares Available Globally on Audible
Thursday, May 9
Tickets On Sale Now
NEWARK, NJ and NEW YORK, NY – April 2, 2024 – Audible Inc., the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, is pleased to present an encore engagement of Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares, starring Tony Award winner Laura Benanti in a comedy show featuring all original music created with Music Director Todd Almond and directed by Annie Tippe, live at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane, between MacDougal & 6th Avenue – one block south of W. 3^rd Street), Audible’s creative home for live performances in New York.
Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares premiered in February with three sold-out shows at the Minetta Lane and returns this spring for 18 performances only:
Thursday, May 9 at 7PM
Friday, May 10 at 8PM
Sunday, May 12 at 3PM
Monday, May 13 at 7PM
Thursday, May 16 at 7PM
Friday, May 17 at 8PM
Saturday, May 18 at 8PM
Sunday, May 19 at 3PM
Monday, May 20 at 7PM
Thursday, May 23 at 7PM
Friday, May 24 at 8PM
Saturday, May 25 at 5PM and 9PM
Thursday, May 30 at 7PM
Friday, May 31 at 8PM
Saturday, June 1 at 5PM and 9PM
Sunday, June 2 at 3PM
Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares, which was recorded live at the Minetta during the February performances, will also be released globally on Audible on Thursday, May 9 as an Audible Original, extending its reach to millions of listeners around the world.
Tony Award-winning performer Laura Benanti is bringing her new comedy show back to the Minetta Lane Theatre. Be part of the live audience as the Broadway legend debuts all-new music, created with music director Todd Almond, and shares her hilariously bumpy journey from ingenue to recovering ingenue. Annie Tippe directs.
Joining Laura onstage as her “Inner Demons” are Barrie McLain and Chelsea Lee Williams (vocalists), with Todd Almond (music director) and band members Carl Carter (bass), Clayton Craddock (drums), Edward W. Hardy (violin), Ann Klein (guitar), and Daniel A. Weiss (keyboards/guitar). The creative team includes Japhy Weideman (lighting design), Connor Wang (sound design), dots (Scenic Consultant) and Garrett Kerr (production stage manager). Technical supervision is by Hudson Theatrical Associates’ Sean Gorski with general management by Baseline Theatrical’s Jonathan Whitton.
BIOGRAPIES
Tony Award-winner and five-time Tony Award nominee LAURA BENANTI is a highly celebrated stage and screen actress. Ms. Benanti has an impressive television roster including Hulu’s “Life & Beth,” created by and starring Amy Schumer, the hit series “Younger,” HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” reboot, and the second season of HBO Max’s “The Gilded Age.” Other television credits include guest starring roles on Cinema Toast, created by Jeff Baena and produced by the Duplass Brothers, Ziwe featuring comedian Ziwe Fumudoh, both for Showtime, as well as “Inside Amy Schumer” on Paramount+ (among many others). Benanti has also made widely acclaimed appearances on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as Melania Trump. Additionally, Benanti created and executive produced the HBO Max special Homeschool Musical: Class Of 2020 based on her viral social media movement: #sunshinesongs.
In film, Benanti starred in Netflix’s Worth opposite Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci and Amy Ryan, Here Today opposite Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish, and was featured in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tick, Tick…Boom!.
In the theater, Ms. Benanti took Broadway by storm at the age of 18 as Maria in The Sound of Music and has subsequently starred in ten more Broadway shows (musicals, straight plays, comedies, and dramas) including Into The Woods, Nine (opposite Antonio Banderas), Gypsy (for which she won a Tony Award), She Loves Me, My Fair Lady, and Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower opposite Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key.
Additionally, Benanti co-authored a comedic board book for mothers entitled M is for MAMA (and also Merlot): A Modern Mom’s ABCs, co-written with Metropolitan Opera Star Kate Mangiameli. She released a self-titled studio album for Sony Music Masterworks and tours the world performing solo concerts alongside highly celebrated musicians and orchestras.
Ms. Benanti recently wrapped filming on a trio of films: Goodrich opposite Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis, Everything’s Going To Be Great opposite Bryan Cranston; and The Shade based on the award-winning short of the same name.
Annie Tippe (she/her) is a director and creator of new work, music theater and film. She directed the world premieres and subsequent productions of Dave Malloy’s Octet and Ghost Quartet. For Octet, she won the Lortel Award for Best Direction and was named an SDC Callaway Award Finalist. Recent: Molly Beach Murphy + Jeanna Phillip’s COWBOY BOB (Alley Theatre), Britta Johnson’s Life After (Goodman Theatre; Jeff Award Nominee), Julia May Jonas’ Your Own Personal Exegesis (Lincoln Center), Selina Fillinger’s POTUS (Berkeley Rep), Tony Meneses’ The Hombres (Two River), and James + Jerome’s INK (co-directed w. Rachel Chavkin) and The Conversationalists (Bushwick Starr). Her film “ HELP ME MARY” won Best Narrative Short at the Lower East Side Film Festival. Former Ars Nova Director-in-Residence, Drama League Directing Fellow, Williamstown Directing Corps. UPCOMING: Premiere of Dave Malloy’s Three Houses at Signature Theatre. annietippe.com. 
Todd Almond is an acclaimed performer, songwriter, and playwright. His recent performance on Broadway in Girl from the North Country was called “stunning” by The Washington Post, and “roof-raising, uplifting, and invigorating” by Hollywood Reporter. His musical The Odyssey was hailed as “brash, funny and heart-stirring” by The New York Times. His theater piece Kansas City Choir Boy was called “awesome, slyly punk rock” by Rolling Stone. Todd Almond is known for his singular songwriting in addition to his work as an accomplished performer. He recently toured the U.S. in his original musical Kansas City Choir Boy starring alongside rock icon Courtney Love, and starred in three of his original musicals at the famed Delacorte Theater in Central Park (The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, and The Odyssey). His musical Girlfriend – based on the Matthew Sweet album of the same title – is a perennial favorite for theater companies around the country, and he is currently collaborating with producer David Foster on a new, original musical. He has previously collaborated with Sarah Ruhl (Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical), Jenny Schwartz (Iowa), Laura Benanti (In Constant Search for the Right Kind of Attention), Sherie Rene Scott and Norbert Leo Butz (“Twohander”), Kelli O’Hara (“Live at Carnegie Hall”), and Andrew Rannells (“Live from Lincoln Center”). As a composer and orchestrator, Almond has written and arranged music for Noises Off! on Broadway, Iowa at Playwrights Horizons, F*cking A at Signature Theatre, and How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Lincoln Center Theater, Kelli O’Hara Live at Carnegie Hall, and the recent film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Again. Other New York acting credits include Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl at Playwrights Horizons, People Are Wrong at the Vineyard, Piece of Meat opposite Sherie Rene Scott, and Law and Order: SVU.  Currently, Todd can also be seen starring in Gossip Girl on HBO Max. As a musical director, Almond tours with Laura Benanti and Judy Kuhn, and recently made his PBS debut with Andrew Rannells, Live From Lincoln Center.
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