AN EVENING With SUTTON FOSTER Plays Balboa Theater 10/1

Sutton Foster, the beautiful and delightful Tony Award®-winning star of Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Drowsy Chaperone, Little Women, Young Frankenstein and Shrek the Musical is returning to San Diego for One Night Only in the historic and intimate BALBOA THEATRE, Friday October 1, 2010; with "AN EVENING With Sutton Foster, Michael Rafter Music Director," as a Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation. Tickets are available now only as part of a Broadway/San Diego 2010-2011 Season subscription package; individual tickets will go on sale to the general public on Thursday, August 12.

Not only is she considered this generation's premier musical theater actress ~ Foster is the original creator of five acclaimed Broadway roles, a record previously held by the fabulous Ethel Merman ~ she was recently selected as one of the "Top 40 Musical Theatre Legends" from 1900 to today. The evening's music director is the esteemed Michael Rafter and will feature Broadway show stoppers as well as selections from her new CD Wish.

Many in San Diego are familiar with Foster's career and consider her storied "big break" part of local theatre history. Foster was cast as the understudy to the lead in Thoroughly Modern Millie at the La Jolla Playhouse premiere in 2000. A week before tech rehearsals began, the lead became ill and Foster was asked to step in until the actress returned. Foster was quickly offered the role and a year later she was on Broadway as Millie Dillmount (for which she won the 2002 Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Astaire Awards for her performance). Her many acclaimed roles on Broadway since include Princess Fiona in Shrek: The Musical, Inga in the Mel Brooks musical, Young Frankenstein, Janet Van De Graaff in The Drowsy Chaperone and Jo March in Little Women: The Musical. She is currently co-starring in Paul Weitz' Trust at Second Stage Theatre in NYC in a limited run through September; and will star in next year's Broadway revival of Anything Goes.

WHEN: October 1, 2010

WHERE: Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Avenue, downtown San Diego

PERFORMANCE TIME: Friday, October 1 at 8PM

TICKETS: $20 --$71; Tickets On Sale Now

TICKET PURCHASE: Civic Theatre Ticket Office; 1100 Third Avenue
(619) 570-1100; Monday - Friday, 10AM - 6PM
Ticketmaster (800) 982-2787
Tickets Available now with Season Ticket Package: (888) 937-8995
Groups 10+: (619) 564-3001

PARKING: Paid parking available in the NBC Building Garage at 225 Broadway.
Enter Broadway Circle from 2nd Ave. and Broadway; to garage entrance
down-ramp on the left, directly across from the Levi's Store.

WEBSITE: BroadwaySD.com

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