Sutton Foster to Star in Encores! Anyone Can Whistle

By Andrew Gans
15 Oct 2009

Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster
Photo by Aubrey Reuben

Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, who is currently back on Broadway in Shrek the Musical, will play Nurse Fay Apple in the City Center Encores! production of Anyone Can Whistle.

The Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents musical will play the famed New York venue April 8-11, 2010. Foster will play the role originated by the late Lee Remick.

The Drowsy Chaperone's Casey Nicholaw will direct and choreograph the production with musical direction by Rob Berman.

Additional casting and complete creative team will be announced at a later time.

Foster received a Tony nomination for her work in the hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone at the Marquis Theatre. The singing actress starred in the title role of Thoroughly Modern Millie and received the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Astaire awards for that performance. She also received a Tony nomination for her performance in Little Women, and her other Broadway credits include roles in Young Frankenstein, Les Misérables, Annie, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Grease!. Foster's regional and tour credits include What the World Needs Now, Dorian, Three Musketeers, South Pacific and The Will Rogers Follies.

With a score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Arthur Laurents, Anyone Can Whistle opened at the Majestic Theatre April 4, 1964, with a cast led by multi-Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, Harry Guardino, Gabriel Dell, Arnold Soboloff, James Frawley, Peg Murray, Don Doherty, Sterling Clark, Harvey Evans, Larry Roquemore and Tucker Smith. Although the musical played but 21 performances, the Sondheim score contained several thrilling songs: “Me and My Town,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Everybody Says Don’t” and “With So Little To Be Sure Of.”

For tickets call (212) 581-1212 or visit www.nycitycenter.org.