Sutton Foster Confirms Barnes & Noble Appearance, 5/9

Tony Winner Sutton Foster has confirmed a May 9th ‘Live at Barnes & Noble' in-store performance and CD signing to celebrate Ghostlight Records' release of her 20-song tour de force ‘An Evening With Sutton Foster - Live at the Café Carlyle'. In a rave review, USA TODAY's Elysa Gardner praised the CD's ballads in particular as "revelatory, showing a sense of grace and wonder," adding that the live album "offers delightful proof of a shier, wrier side" to Foster. This is a theme Foster herself reinforced in an interview with THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, emphasizing ‘it's a concert, not cabaret, but adds that whatever you call it, "it's definitely quirky and weird -- and very much me."' Audio samples and more info, here: http://www.sh-k-boom.com/suttoncarlyle.shtml

The new album invites listeners to get a sense of Foster's triumphant sold-out run at New York's famed Café Carlyle, part of a 2010 nationwide tour which featured stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, Des Moines, Chicago, Sag Harbor, Dallas, Clearwater, Delray Beach, Charlotte, Midland (MI), Traverse City (MI) and more - rave reviews and sold-out shows followed Foster along the way.

The event will takeplace on May 9 at 5PM at the 150 East 86th St. Barnes & Noble (at Lexington Avenue). Doors open at 4:30PM. The concerts featured Musical Direction / Arrangements / Piano by Foster's long-time collaborator Michael Rafter, and Guitars by Kevin Kuhn. The ensuing Ghostlight album was recorded live on June 26, 2010 at the Café Carlyle at The Carlyle Hotel, NYC, and was Produced for Records by Lawrence Manchester. Executive Producers are Kurt Deutsch, Sutton Foster, Fox Theatricals, Mike Isaacson and Kristin Caskey.

Foster's new CD is her second solo effort with Ghostlight Records. Her 2009 solo debut ‘WISH' earned rave coverage in top outlets ranging from USA TODAY to NBC-TV's WEEKEND TODAY SHOW to VARIETY and more. 

TRACK LISTING - ‘An Evening With Sutton Foster - Live at the Café Carlyle':

1) I'm Beginning to See The Light (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James)
2) Dialog #1 - Introductions
3) Not For The Life Of Me/NYC/Astonishing (Dick Scanlan and Jeanine Tesori/Martin Charnin, Charles Strouse/Jason Howland and Mindi Dickstein)
4) Dialog #2 - Up on the Roof intro
5) Up On The Roof (Carole King, Gerald Goffin)
6) Air Conditioner (Christine Lavin)
7) Warm All Over (Frank Loesser) Frank Music Corp
8) Dialog #3 - Angel Cards
9) Show Off (Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison)
10) More to the Story (David Lindsay-Abaire, Jeanine Tesori)
11) My Heart Was Set On You (Jeff Blumenkrantz)
12) Down With Love (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg)
13) I Like The Sunrise (Duke Ellington)
14) Dialog #5 - Ho Cup Surprise
15) Defying Gravity (Stephen Schwartz)
16) Late Late Show (Murray Berlin, Roy Alfred)
17) Dialog #6 - Jeopardy
18) Sunshine on my Shoulders (John Denver, Richard Kniss, Michael Taylor)
19) Anyone Can Whistle / Being Alive (Stephen Sondheim)
20) Dialog #7 - Thank yous
21) Come The Wild, Wild Weather (Noel Coward)
22) Here, There, Everywhere (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
23) Dialog #8 - Encore
24) And I Am Telling You (Tom Eyen, Henry Krieger) 

Sutton Foster recently starred on Broadway as Princess Fiona in Shrek: The Musical, for which she was honored with Tony and Drama Desk nominations, and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Prior to that, Sutton was Inga in the Mel Brooks musical, Young Frankenstein, Janet Van De Graaff 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 "Law & Order: SVU." Other appearances include the Disney Channel's "Johnny and the Sprites" and several episodes of the HBO series, "The Flight of the Conchords." Sutton has performed in concert at Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, at Feinstein's, Joe's Pub, and at concert halls and theaters across the country. 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. She has just completed a sold-out limited run of the highly-anticipated City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle, starring as Nurse Fay Apple. She is a proud teacher at New York University and Ball State University. Visit her website: www.suttonfoster.com 

Sh-K-Boom with its imprint Ghostlight Records has become the leading independent force in Original Broadway Cast Recordings - building a library of over 100 records the last 10 years, featuring the most successful Broadway musicals and solo albums by Broadway's biggest stars. Founded by Kurt Deutsch and wife Sherie Rene Scott, the label was created by and for the Broadway community and has garnered acclaim not only for their high-quality recordings, but for their innovative marketing techniques and efforts to reach the next generation of Broadway music fans via iTunes, music videos and more. The label (and President Kurt Deutsch) earned their first ever GRAMMY AWARD for the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights. In recent Broadway seasons, Ghostlight has also preserved the scores of some of Broadway's biggest musicals, including Next to Normal, Hair, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Legally Blonde, Everyday Rapture, Passing Strange, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Drowsy Chaperone. Just released on the label are the OCR of Sister Act, as well as solo albums from Tony winners Sutton Foster, Alice Ripley, Christine Ebersole and Ben Vereen.