AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER at Charles Luney Auditorium

The two-time Tony Award-winning actress and Broadway Legend Sutton Foster will be performing for one night only this Friday the 29th of January at the Charles Luney Auditorium at St Margaret's College in Christchurch, following two weeks of tutoring and mentoring at the Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School.

Sutton Foster has originated many roles on Broadway including Janet van de Graaff in The Drowsy Chapperone, Jo March in Little Women, Inga in The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, Princess Fiona in Shrek The Musical, and she is perhaps best known for her Tony Award-winning performances as Millie Dilmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Reno Sweeney in the 2011 revival of the Cole Porter classic Anything Goes. She is a true triple threat performer, equally at home as a singer, dancer and actress and is now also forging ahead with a career in television, most notably as Michelle Simms in Bunheads and as Liza Milller in Younger. She may also be familiar to New Zealand viewers having appeared in three episodes of Flight of the Conchords back in 2007 as Bret McKenzie's girlfriend Coco.

She will be joined in this concert by fellow Broadway stars and guest tutors at CIMTSS, the actress Andrea Burns and the musical director Carmel Dean. Andrea Burns is noted for her performances of the work of Jason Robert Brown and for her role as Daniela in In The Heights, and Carmel Dean is the musical director for the hit Broadway show If/Then, starring Idina Menzel.

The CIMTSS was founded in 2014 by the Christchurch based musical director Luke Di Somma, who is a Fulbright Scholar and graduate of New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. Classes are run for both secondary school students and for emerging professionals aged under 30.

It is a rare privilege to have Broadway stars of this calibre here in New Zealand, and it is a testament to the hard work and dedication of Luke Di Somma and the CIMTSS to organise not only this concert, but also this fantastic opportunity for the young performers taking part in the 2016 programme. Sutton Foster is an outstanding talent not to be missed.

An Evening with Sutton Foster is on at 7:30 pm Friday the 29th of January at the Charles Luney Auditorium, 12 Winchester St, Merivale, Christchurch.