Sutton Foster is joining the Broadway revival of “The Music Man,” producer Scott Rudin announced on Monday.
Get ready to meet the new Marian the Librarian.
After a six-year absence from the Broadway stage, the two-time Tony Award winner will star in the new staging of Meredith Willson’s beloved classic,Foster will play Marian Paroo, the River City librarian and piano teacher who attempts to thwart"Professor" Harold Hill , the charismatic con man who poses as a boys-marching-band organizer and then runs with the money he collects for musical instruments and uniforms. That is, if she can sideline her romantic feelings for him.
“There were bells on a hill but I never heard them ringing,” Foster said in a statement, referring to the musical’s closing number. “No, I never heard them at all. Till there was Hugh.” Foster won her first Tony in 2002 for her breakout turn in “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” and again in 2011 for “Anything Goes.” The Broadway mainstay — who also collected Tony nominations in 2005 for “Little Women,” in 2006 for “The Drowsy Chaperone,” in 2009 for “Shrek: The Musical” and in 2014 for “Violet” — has spent the last five years