Laura Benanti, on when she was in the 2003 revival of Nine: “I’d scurry out onto the stage, tip my head for one second, then walk backward to my place in line and turn my face from the audience. Chita [Rivera] was like, ‘You look crazy.’ … She told me I needed to be in the tabletop position for three whole seconds. She’d stand in the wings during my bow and yell ‘One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand! Release!'”