Jodi Benson received a Tony Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for creating the starring role of Polly Baker in the Tony Award-winning Broadway Ira Gershwin musical, "Crazy For You".

Other Broadway credits include: creating the starring role of Doria Hudson in the Howard Ashman-Marvin Hamlisch musical, "Smile", Betty Bursteter in Cy Coleman's "Welcome to the Club" and Virginia in Kenny Ortega's "Marilyn: An American Musical". Internationally, Mrs. Benson has had the honor of sharing the stage with her husband, Ray Benson, in the European premiere of Ira Gershwin's "My One and Only", starring as Miss Edythe Herbert. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Benson starred in the critically-acclaimed Reprise/UCLA production of "Babes in Arms" as Bunny, Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" (Pasadena Civic), "Flora the Red Menace" (Pasadena Playhouse), Ado Annie in "Oklahoma!" (Dorothy Chandler Pavillion), Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" (Alex Theater) and as Florence Vassey in "Chess" (Long Beach Civic Light Opera) for which she won the Drama-Logue Award for Best Actress.

After 23 years, Jodi was so delighted to be back on stage in the iconic role of Rose in “Gypsy” but with the added blessing of sharing the stage with her real life daughter, Delaney Benson as Louise.