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Sutton Foster Sets May 9th Barnes & Noble in-Store, as Ghostlight CD Earns Raves

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Sutton Foster Confirms May 9th Barnes and Noble In-Store Performance and CD Signing, as New CD Earns Raves

20-Song Tour de Force 'An Evening With Sutton Foster—Live at the Cafe Carlyle' Available Now on Ghostlight Records


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 Cafe 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."'

The new album invites listeners to get a sense of Foster's triumphant sold-out run at New York's famed Cafe 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.

Monday, May 9, 2011
Live at Barnes & Noble: SUTTON FOSTER
Multi-song performance, followed by CD signing
Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th St. (at Lexington Avenue)
Featuring Sutton Foster and Musical Director Michael Rafter
4:30pm—Doors open
5:00pm—Program begins

MORE ABOUT SUTTON FOSTER

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.

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