For me it's important that I look beautiful so people can say, 'If that's cancer, it's not so terrible.' I want to show them that you don't have to be in remission to be alive.
-Laurie Beechman as quoted in The New York Times, 4/28/96
"Love it or loathe it, Lloyd Webber's music has a larger than life theatricality
that suits Beechman's impassioned, sell-it-to-the-back-row delivery. But
this Broadway baby also knows when to pull back. Quiet, yet determined
on 'Anything But Lonely', Beechman shows that she's more than a modern
day Merman..." (-People magazine)