After her death, the West Bank Cafe Downstairs Theater Bar in New York was renamed the Laurie Beechman Theatre.

For her role as the narrator in the 1982 original Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Dropping out of NYU after a few years, Beechman made her Broadway debut in 1977 as part of the original cast of Annie, playing five different roles.

Set to take over the role of Fantine in the touring production of Les Misérables in late 1988, Beechman was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

After months of treatment, with her longtime friend Ken Gilmurray by her side, Beechman bounced back with a celebrated cabaret act at New York's legendary Ballroom.

The following fall she celebrated regaining her health after fighting off a recurrence of her cancer by, as she put it, "throwing myself a nightclub act," returning once again to the Ballroom.

During the later years of her life, Beechman married Neil Mazzella in 1992, recorded three more solo albums, performed numerous concerts and club dates, sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" at President Bill Clinton's second inaugural gala, was awarded the Gilda's Club's "It's Always Something" Award, and returned to singing and acting.

She recorded a track, Jacques Brel's "If We Only Have Love", with her sister, Claudia Beechman, and another, a medley from Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" and "West Side Story", with Sam Harris.

In 2023 the theatrical stage at Haddon Township High School, N.J., Beechman's alma mater, was officially named for her during a public ceremony followed by a student performance of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."