Sutton Foster

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Sutton Foster is a Tony Award winning American actress, singer, and dancer. Foster was born in Statesboro, Georgia, on March 18, 1975 and raised in Troy, Michigan. At the age of fifteen, she was a contestant on the television show Star Search (competing against future Broadway actor Richard Blake) and also auditioned for the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. She left Troy High School, where she had been active in the Troy Theatre Ensemble, before her senior year (she received her diploma via correspondence courses) to be in the national tour of The Will Rogers Follies directed by Tommy Tune. She then attended Carnegie Mellon University for one year, but left to pursue a theatrical career full-time. Foster's big break was reminiscent of 42nd Street when, during rehearsals of the pre-Broadway run of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, she was pulled from the chorus to replace the leading lady. Any apprehension about an unknown playing the lead in a nearly $10 million Broadway production was proven unfounded when she opened at the Marquis Theatre to primarily rave reviews. Foster went on to win a Tony Award in 2002 for the Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. In 2005, Foster starred as Jo March opposite Maureen McGovern as Marmee in the short-lived musical adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic Little Women, for which she was nominated for her second Tony Award. In May 2006, Foster returned to the Marquis Theatre on Broadway in the

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Wish

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Anything Goes

Shrek the Musical

Take Me to the World

An Evening with Sutton Foster - Live at the Café Carlyle

An Evening With Sutton Foster (Live At The Café Carlyle)

Anything Goes (New Broadway Cast Recording)

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Thoroughly Modern Millie

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Shrek The Musical (Original Cast Recording)

The New Mel Brooks Musical - Young Frankenstein

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Anything Goes (2011 Broadway Cast Recording)

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