Two-time Tony Award winning actress Sutton Foster opens MPAC's 23rd season with a gala performance on Friday, October 6 at 8 pm. Tickets are $49-$89.
Sutton Foster currently stars as Liza in the critically-acclaimed TV Land series, "Younger." Created by "Sex in the City's"
Darren Star and styled by the iconic Pat Field, the series centers around a 40-year-old suburban single mother, Liza, who re-invents herself as a 26-year-old in order to get a job at a publishing company.
Sutton is a two-time Tony winning actress, singer and dancer. Perhaps best-known for her role as Reno Sweeney in the
Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Anything Goes at the
Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Foster earned a 2011 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, as well as the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, the Fred and
Adele Astaire, and Broadway.com's Audience Favorite Awards for her performance as a former Evangelist, now nightclub singer, aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London.
Under the direction of
Michael Mayer, Sutton previously starred as Millie Dillmount, a young, modern woman from Kansas who travels to New York City intending to marry for money, in the 2002 Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Marquis Theatre. Originating the role, Sutton established herself as one of the greatest talents in the industry and earned a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, as well as the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and the Fred and
Adele Astaire Awards for her performance.
In addition to her Tony-winning performances, Foster originated numerous notable roles, most recently, Princess Fiona in
Jeanine Tesori and
David Lindsay-Abaire's Shrek The Musical at The Broadway Theatre. Starring opposite Brian d'Arcy James, she won her second Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical and was nominated for a Tony, Drama League, and Drama Desk Awards. Foster also originated the role of Inga, the yodeling lab assistant to Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, in
Mel Brooks and
Thomas Meehan's parody of the horror film genre, Young Frankenstein, at Foxwoods Theatre.
Her performance as
Janet Van De Graaff in
Casey Nicholaw's The Drowsy Chaperone at the Marquis Theatre in 2006 earned her Tony Award, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Ovation Award nominations. Previously, Sutton took on the role of Jo, the brassy, tomboy, and aspiring writer, in the 2005 Broadway production of Little Women, directed by
Susan H. Schulman at the Virginia Theatre. For this role, she earned Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations. Among her other theater credits include: Les Miserable, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Annie and Grease. In addition, Foster made her Off-Broadway debut as Prudence in
Paul Weitz's comedy, Trust which showed at
Second Stage Theatre and starred
Zach Braff,
Bobby Cannavale, and
Ari Graynor.
As a solo artist, Sutton has toured the country with her hit solo concert which featured songs from her debut solo CD "Wish" as well as her follow up CD, "An Evening With
Sutton Foster: Live at the
Cafe Carlyle." She has also graced the stages of
Carnegie Hall, Feinstein's, Lincoln Center's American Songbook series and many others.
Prior to her starring role on Younger, she starred in Bunheads. Foster was first seen on television on "Star Search" at the young age 15, and has more recently appeared in HBO's comedy series "Flight of the Conchords," USA Network's "Royal Pains," "Law & Order: SUV" and "Elementary." She has also made guest appearances on the well-known children series Disney's "Johnny and the Sprites," and PBS's "
Sesame Street."
Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2017-2018 season is made possible, in part, by a grant the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as support received from the F.M. Kirby Foundation and numerous corporations, foundations and individuals. The Mayo Performing Arts Center has been designated a Major Presenting Organization by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Mayo Performing Arts Center was named 2016 Outstanding Historic Theatre by the League of Historic American Theatres, and is ranked in the top 50 mid-sized performing arts centers by Pollstar Magazine.
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