The guest artist at this year’s “Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir” TV special was surprised to learn that she could make a living as a singer.
Not because there was any question about her talent. Sutton Foster’s voice is amazing. She does, after all, have a pair of Tonys as best actress in a musical. And four more nominations.
No, growing up in Georgia, Foster didn’t realize that anybody could make a living doing what she loves. She had no opportunities to attend musicals of any kind, let alone Broadway shows.
“When we discovered that Broadway or musical theater or any of this existed, we would go to the local library and check out cassette tapes of musicals,” she said.