Talk Fifty To Me

10. Laura Benanti

August 4, 2026·44 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

This is our very first and only guest this season who has not yet hit fifty BUT we did it for a reason. She calls Perimenopause the amuse bouche to an old cooch and featured those words in her brilliant, brutally honest, and constantly sold out show about the challenges of aging called “Nobody Cares.”  Laura Benanti stepped on to a Broadway stage  at age 18 playing Maria Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. is a 5 time Tony award nominee and won the Tony for her role of Louise in Gypsy. She’s been in scores of tv shows from the revival of Gossip Girl to The Gilded Age  and the coming of age film No Hard Feelings but you may know her most for the world's best Melania Trump impersonation. We're talking losing the male gaze and started a witches coven so tune in!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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