My life has been so unbelievably blessed in spite of everything and maybe because of it. I got married after two bouts of cancer. I have this whole different life and a career. I'm really like everybody else.
-Laurie Beechman, as quoted in The New York Times, 1994
"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)