Sutton Fosteris coming home.The two-time Tony winner, 44, is hitting Broadway again in the revival ofThe Music Man. Foster is joiningHugh Jackmanas the lead after the actor announced his own return to Broadway earlier this month.“There were bells on a hill but I never heard them ringing. No, I never heard them at all. Till there was Hugh,” the actress said in astatement to theHollywood Reporter.Performances are set to begin at a theater to be named on Sept. 9, 2020, with an opening set for Oct. 22, 2020.Foster is taking on Marian Paroo opposite Jackman’s Harold Hill — the traveling salesman who cons the people of a small Iowa town into buying instruments and uniforms for a band he has no intention to organize.Bruce Glikas/WireImage; Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via GettyTheYoungeractress earned her first Tony in 2002 when she originated the role of Millie inThoroughly Modern Millie. She won again in 2011 forAnything Goes, and has racked up 7 total nominations for best actress in a musical.WATCH: Hugh Jackman on the Seven-Year Fight to MakeThe Greatest ShowmanThis marks the first Broadway musical Jackman has led since his Tony-winning turn as Peter Allen in 2003’sThe Boy From Oz. He returned to the Great White Way in two plays (2009’sA Steady Rainand 2014’sThe River) as well as his solo show,Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, in 2011.“The first musical I was ever part of was the phenomenalThe Music Man,” Jackman said in a statement. “The year was 1983, and I was at Knox Grammar School in Sydney, Australia. I was one of the traveling salesmen, and I think I can actually (almost) remember that unforgettable opening number! That was probably the moment when the magic of theater was born in me.”
Sutton Fosteris coming home.
The two-time Tony winner, 44, is hitting Broadway again in the revival ofThe Music Man. Foster is joiningHugh Jackmanas the lead after the actor announced his own return to Broadway earlier this month.
“There were bells on a hill but I never heard them ringing. No, I never heard them at all. Till there was Hugh,” the actress said in astatement to theHollywood Reporter.
Performances are set to begin at a theater to be named on Sept. 9, 2020, with an opening set for Oct. 22, 2020.
Foster is taking on Marian Paroo opposite Jackman’s Harold Hill — the traveling salesman who cons the people of a small Iowa town into buying instruments and uniforms for a band he has no intention to organize.
Bruce Glikas/WireImage; Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty
TheYoungeractress earned her first Tony in 2002 when she originated the role of Millie inThoroughly Modern Millie. She won again in 2011 forAnything Goes, and has racked up 7 total nominations for best actress in a musical.
WATCH: Hugh Jackman on the Seven-Year Fight to MakeThe Greatest Showman
This marks the first Broadway musical Jackman has led since his Tony-winning turn as Peter Allen in 2003’sThe Boy From Oz. He returned to the Great White Way in two plays (2009’sA Steady Rainand 2014’sThe River) as well as his solo show,Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, in 2011.
“The first musical I was ever part of was the phenomenalThe Music Man,” Jackman said in a statement. “The year was 1983, and I was at Knox Grammar School in Sydney, Australia. I was one of the traveling salesmen, and I think I can actually (almost) remember that unforgettable opening number! That was probably the moment when the magic of theater was born in me.”
source: people.com
