AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER Performs At Cafe Carlyle 6/26

Erich Steinbock (Managing Director) announced today that, due to overwhelming demand following the slate of rave reviews, a late-night performance of Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster's Café Carlyle debut show, "Sutton Foster at the Carlyle" has been added. There will now be 10:45 PM performance on Saturday, June 26. This late show time will allow Broadway actors in currently-running shows the opportunity to see Ms. Foster's acclaimed debut engagement at the Café Carlyle.

Ms. Foster, in a program entitled "Sutton Foster at the Carlyle," is performing an eclectic evening consisting of standards, songs from the worlds of pop and Broadway, and selections from her debut album, ‘Wish.' She is supported on piano by her music director Michael Rafter and on guitar by Kevin Kuhn.

The Café Carlyle is located in The Carlyle Hotel - 35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue.

"Sutton Foster at the Carlyle" plays through Saturday, June 26, Tuesdays through Fridays at 8:45 PM, and Saturdays at 8:45 PM and 10:45 PM (Saturday, June 26). There is a $65 music charge ($40, bar) for the Tuesday-Thursday performances and a $75 music charge ($45, bar) for the Friday and Saturday performances. Dinner (required) is served from 6:30PM. For reservations please call 212-744-1600. For additional information, visit www.thecarlyle.com.

BIOGRAPHY

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.

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