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Laura Benanti blasts Broadway work conditions: ‘I broke my neck’ because I was ‘a nice girl’

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took to Instagram on Friday, defiantly sharing her full story for the first time: “Today I woke up angry. Because I’m not a nice girl anymore.

I am a grown-ass woman.”Benanti — who hit Broadway back in the late 1990s, when she was still a teenager — says she suffered the serious injury in her early 20s. “When I was 22 years old I broke my neck.

I was in a Broadway show that required two pratfalls (one, from a moving staircase), 8 times a week. I was not an acrobat. I was not even a dancer.

I was a 22-year-old girl who didn’t know how to say ‘this doesn’t feel safe to me,’ ” she stated in the Instagram post. “I was a good girl.

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