Ball State University, The College of Fine Arts and The Department of Theatre and Dance are pleased to present:

Guest Artist Series

Sutton Foster

Saturday, January 30, 2010

7:30pm

Sursa Hall

Free Public Presentation

Don't miss this opportunity to hear her discuss her incredible journey through Broadway, tours and even the coveted Tony Award.

 

"As Broadway ingenues go, Ms. Foster isn't all that different from everyone else; she is just a little better and a little truer, which makes all the difference. You seldom feel that she is playing to the gallery by being too cute and perky. Her soprano is sweet and her delivery relaxed; her presence is so natural that she suggests a softer version of the young Julia Roberts."
                                                               -The New York Times, 2009

"Foster was a show-stealer, dancing energetically, singing gorgeously and smiling charmingly. Her ebullient enthusiasm was so infectious she won over the crowd from the first moment she appeared in a scene in her dragon-guarded tower prison, waiting to be rescued by a brave prince."
                                                               -The News Tribune.com, 2008

"She has a smile that may remind you of Mary Tyler Moore, the gawky comic precision of the young Carol Burnett, the lyricism of a romantic heroine and a smallish but vibrant voice accurate as it is expressive."
                                                               -Newsday.com, 2002


SUTTON FOSTER is currently starring on Broadway as Princess Fiona in Shrek: The Musical, for which she has been honored with Tony and Drama Desk nominations, and the Outer Critics Circle Award. She recently starred on Broadway as Inga in The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein. Prior to that, Sutton was Janet Van De Graff in The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, LA Ovation Award) and Jo March in Little Women: The Musical (2005 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations). She is the recipient of the 2002 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Astaire Awards for her performance as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie, a role she created in the 2000 La Jolla Playhouse premiere. Other Broadway credits include Les Miserables, Annie, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Grease!. Regional productions include What the World Needs Now (Old Globe), Dorian (Goodspeed), The Three Musketeers (San Jose Musical Theater), Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, and Sally in Me and My Girl (both at Pittsburgh CLO). She has toured nationally in The Will Rogers Follies, Les Miserables, and Grease!. She has appeared as Svetlana in Chess in Concert and as the "I'm the Greatest Star" Fanny Brice in Funny Girl in Concert, both Actors Fund of America benefits. On television, Sutton recently guest starred on the Disney Channel's "Johnny and the Sprites," and on several episodes of the HBO series "The Flight of the Conchords." Sutton has performed in concert at Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, Joe's Pub, with the Philly Pops, with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, and most recently at Feinstein's at the Regency. Recordings include The Maury Yeston Songbook (PS Classics), Jule Styne in Hollywood, and the original cast recordings of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, and Shrek. Her debut solo CD, Wish (Ghostlight Records), was recently released to critical acclaim and is now available in stores.