Sutton Foster
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Sutton Foster (b. March 18, 1975, Statesboro, Georgia) is a Tony Award winning American actress, singer, and dancer.
Foster was raised in Troy, Michigan. At the age of fifteen, she was a contestant on the television show Star Search (competing against future Broadway actor Richard Blake) and also auditioned for the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. She left Troy High School, where she had been active in the Troy Theatre Ensemble, before her senior year (she received her diploma via correspondence courses) to be in the national tour of The Will Rogers Follies directed by Tommy Tune. She then attended Carnegie Mellon University for one year, but left to pursue a theatrical career full-time.
Foster's big break was reminiscent of 42nd Street when, during rehearsals of the pre-Broadway run of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, she was pulled from the chorus to replace the leading lady. Any apprehension about an unknown playing the lead in a nearly $10 million Broadway production was proven unfounded when she opened at the Marquis Theatre to primarily rave reviews. Foster went on to win a Tony Award in 2002 for the Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie.
In 2005, Foster starred as Jo March opposite Maureen McGovern as Marmee in the short-lived musical adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic Little Women, for which she was nominated for her second Tony Award.
In May 2006, Foster returned to the Marquis Theatre on Broadway in the role of Janet van de Graff, a famous Broadway starlet who opts to forego a stage career in favor of married life, in The Drowsy Chaperone, a spoof of 1920s musicals, for which she earned her third Tony nomination. She is scheduled to leave the show April 15, 2007.
She will soon star in Mel Brook's new muiscal adaptation of his movie Young Frankenstein in which she will play the curvaious Swedish fraulein Inga [1].
Among Foster's other credits include Eponine in the third U.S. national tour of Les Miserables (a role she had understudied on Broadway) and Sandy in the national tour of Grease.
In September 2006, Foster married her former Millie co-star, Christian Borle, who was featured in the Tony Award-winning musical Monty Python's Spamalot and will be starring in the Broadway version of Legally Blonde: The Musical.
Her brother Hunter Foster is an actor, singer and writer.
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[edit] Broadway credits
- Young Frankenstein (2007)
- The Drowsy Chaperone (2006)
- Little Women (2005)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002)
- Les Misèrables (2000)
- Annie (1997)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1997)
- Grease (1996)
[edit] National tours
- The Will Rogers Follies
- Les Miserables
- Grease
[edit] Regional shows
- Me and My Girl (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera)
- What the World Needs Now (Old Globe)
- Dorian (Goodspeed Opera House)
- The Three Musketeers (San Jose Musical Theatre)
- South Pacific (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (LaJolla Playhouse, San Diego)
[edit] Films
- p.s. (2004)
[edit] Recordings
- The Drowsy Chaperone (Original Cast Recording) (2006)
- Little Women (Original Cast Recording) (2005)
- The Maury Yeston Songbook (2003)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Cast Recording) (2002)
[edit] Awards & Nominations
- 2006 Tony Award Nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Musical (The Drowsy Chaperone)
- 2006 Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (The Drowsy Chaperone)
- 2006 Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (The Drowsy Chaperone)
- 2005 Tony Award Nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Musical (Little Women)
- 2002 Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
- 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
- 2002 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
- 2002 Fred Astaire Award for Best Actress (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
| Preceded by Christine Ebersole for 42nd Street |
Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical 2002 for Thoroughly Modern Millie |
Succeeded by Marissa Jaret Winokur for Hairspray |
[edit] External links
- Sutton Foster Sutton Foster News & Forums
- Astonishing A Sutton Foster fansite (News, Info., Forums, Media, Gallery)
- Official Website (Old)
- Article on her role in Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Sutton Foster at the Internet Broadway Database
- Sutton Foster - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org, May 2005
- Performance - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, April 2003
