Happy Birthday, Sutton Foster Foster's portrayal of Reno Sweeney in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Anythng Goes earned her the 2011 Tony Award Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Sutton also starred on Broadwayas 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.
- 3/18/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday, Sutton Foster Foster's portrayal of Reno Sweeney in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Anythng Goes earned her the 2011 Tony Award Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Sutton also 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.
- 3/18/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday, Sutton Foster Foster's portrayal of Reno Sweeney in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Anythng Goes earned her the 2011 Tony Award Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Sutton also 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.
- 3/18/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Chicago – There are few plot archetypes that receive as much in the way of production funding as that which examines- and often heralds- the business of Broadway. From the trying personal life of Fanny Brice to the eruption of a chorus player on 42nd Street, musicals have often reveled to the avidity of their own founts.
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
Bob Martin was never interested in championing the next Gypsy Rose. Instead, the Second City-trained actor turned his pen- and acidity- to the faults and fallacies of Broadway’s most vulnerable idiosyncrasy, its self-professed geekdom.
Jim Harms (Man In Chair), Adam Pelty (Adolpho) and Linda Balgord (the Drowsy Chaperone) star in “The Drowsy Chaperone” at The Marriott Theatre.
Photo credit: Peter Coombs
So goes the conceit of “The Drowsy Chaperone”, the 2006 Canadian import that is once a skewering excoriation and reflective celebration of its own musical form. The production, which garnered...
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
Bob Martin was never interested in championing the next Gypsy Rose. Instead, the Second City-trained actor turned his pen- and acidity- to the faults and fallacies of Broadway’s most vulnerable idiosyncrasy, its self-professed geekdom.
Jim Harms (Man In Chair), Adam Pelty (Adolpho) and Linda Balgord (the Drowsy Chaperone) star in “The Drowsy Chaperone” at The Marriott Theatre.
Photo credit: Peter Coombs
So goes the conceit of “The Drowsy Chaperone”, the 2006 Canadian import that is once a skewering excoriation and reflective celebration of its own musical form. The production, which garnered...
- 5/19/2010
- by Alissa Norby
- HollywoodChicago.com
Bob Martin never imagined he would become a sought-after writer of Broadway musicals. The Canadian comic, who gently parodied life at a nonprofit theatre as creator and writer of the cult TV show Slings and Arrows, hit it big as the author (with Don McKellar) of the musical The Drowsy Chaperone. Martin also starred as Man in Chair, the show's narrator, who guides the audience through an imaginary 1920s musical with his sly commentary. Drowsy Chaperone originated as a wedding gift from friends, who presented it to Martin and his fiancée (now his wife), Janet Van De Graaff, at a party in 1998. It was later performed at several fringe festivals before opening at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in late 2005. After moving to Broadway, it scored 13 Tony nominations, winning five awards, including best book of a musical for Martin and McKellar. Now Martin is back at the Ahmanson as the writer of Minsky's,...
- 2/5/2009
- by Jenelle Riley
- backstage.com
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