Laura Benanti has appeared in numerous Broadway productions in addition to her film and television work, such as her fan-favourite appearances as Melania Trump on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”.
On Friday, Benanti, 42, took to Instagram to share a story from her past calling attention to allegations of unsafe working conditions on Broadway that led her to suffer a severe injury 20 years earlier. “When I was 22 years old I broke my neck,” she wrote in her post. “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.’ I was a good girl.
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