Singing is like learning about life. You're given the gift of life and you learn to get through it. When you sing it's like having a gift ... you learn what to do with it, how to make it honest and how to make it do what you want it to do.
-Laurie Beechman, as quoted in United Press International,March 15, 1984
"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)