Sutton Foster Comes To OPAC Thru 1/9/2011

Sutton Foster, one of Broadway's most loved and talented leading ladies, will make her Orange County Performing Arts Center debut January 6 - 9 in the star-studded Cabaret Series.

She has it all - presence, talent and charisma - and has conquered the Great White Way with her Tony winning performance of the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and she's been center stage as Broadway's darling ever since, creating memorable roles in a string of new musicals including Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone and Shrek: The Musical. Foster's engagement was rescheduled from its originally announced dates of February 17 - 20, 2011. The date change allows Foster to star in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes!

Tickets to see Sutton Foster are $74 and will go on sale December 5. They will be available at
OCPAC.org, at the Center's Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling
714.556.2787. For inquiries about group ticket discounts for 15 or more, call the Group Services office at 714.755.0236.

The TTY number is 714.556.2746.

Foster will star as Reno Sweeney in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes at the Roundabout/Stephen Sondheim Theater opening April 2011. She 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, Foster was Inga in the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein, Janet Van De Graff 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 Misérables, 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 Misérables 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, Foster recently guest starred on Law & Order: SVU. Other appearances include the Disney Channel's Johnny and the Sprites