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BYU Arts Presents: An Evening with Broadway Star Sutton Foster

  • Dates: Friday and Saturday, September 5 and 6
  • Time: 7:30 p.m.
  • Location: BYU, Harris Fine Arts Center, de Jong Concert Hall
  • Tickets: Purchase tickets at arts.byu.edu. Tickets start at $25. (Discounts available for students, BYU alumni and senior citizens). 

Join two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern MilleAnything Goes) for an evening of show tunes, jazz standards and new favorites.

Foster will take the stage at the BYU Harris Fine Arts Center de Jong Concert Hall on Friday and Saturday, September 5 and 6, at 7:30 p.m. Joining her on the piano is Emmy award-winning musician Michael Rafter, also the musical director of the performance.

Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased at arts.byu.edu. Discounts are available for students, BYU alumni and senior citizens.

About Sutton Foster

Sutton Foster is an award-winning actor, singer and dancer. She has performed in 10 Broadway shows and originated roles in the Broadway productions of Violet, The Drowsy Chaperone, Little Women, Young Frankenstein, Shrek the Musical and her Tony Award-winning performances in Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Foster was first seen on television on Star Search at age 15, and has more recently starred in Amy Sherman Palladino’s Bunheads and appeared in Johnny and the Sprites, Flight of the Conchords, Sesame Street, Law and Order SVU and Royal Pains.

As a solo artist, Foster has performed all over the country as well as internationally with her musical director Michael Rafter, featuring songs from her debut solo CD, Wish, as well as her follow up CD, An Evening With Sutton Foster: Live at the Cafe Carlyle. She has graced the stages of Carnegie Hall, Feinstein’s, Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, Joe’s Pub and many others.

In 2011, Foster received an honorary doctorate degree from Ball State University where she also is on faculty as a teacher and advisor to the Department of Theatre and Dance.

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