Well, after our brief interruption, let's head back to Laura Benanti' at the very beginning of her career, when she made her starring debut on Broadway in the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music. This video comes from the following year after she took over the lead role of 'Sister Maria," replacing the wonderful Rebecca Luker, who sadly passed away a few weeks ago. As I noted yesterday, if Benanti's name isn't familiar, despite many major Broadway credits since then, she may be best-known for her appearances on Stephen Colbert's show playing 'Melania Trump.' Here she is with the Von Trapp children singing -- oh, you can probably figure it out. The one oddity here is that she uses sign language for the "Do Re Mi" part. Initially, I figured it was just something she put in for personal reasons, but then when I tracked down and posted a video of Luker in the same production, she did the same thing. For most versions of "Do Re Mi" I've come across, the director seems to like to put their own notable twist on their staging of the number. (A fun production in Norway that I posted here years ago used swings.) I'm guessing the director here went with sign language. At the very beginning of the video, for about one second, you'll see 'Capt. Von Trapp' handing her a whistle to order around the children. If the quick look seems familiar, that's because it's Richard Chamberlain, who joined the cast at the same time.
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