Will Sutton Foster Play Reno Sweeney in a Broadway Revival of Anything Goes?

Tony Award winner Sutton Foster is “in talks” to play Reno Sweeney in a Broadway revival of Anything Goes to be produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, according to Bloomberg News. A Roundabout spokesperson said that the theater “has nothing to announce” about the published report, which asserts that Tony winner Kathleen Marshall will direct the production. No other casting has been mentioned.

Featuring a hit-filled score by Cole Porter, Anything Goes premiered on Broadway on November 21, 1934, with Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, an evangelist-turned-singer who entertains passengers during a trans-Atlantic cruise. A 1987 Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater, starring Patti LuPone and featuring a revised book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman, ran for more than two years and won a Tony for Best Revival.

Foster most recently played Nurse Fay Apple in the Encores! presentation of Anyone Can Whistle. A Best Actress Tony winner for Thoroughly Modern Millie, she received Tony nominations for Shrek the Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone and Little Women. Her other Broadway credits include Young Frankenstein, Les Miserables, Annie, Scarlet Pimpernel and Grease. Foster’s debut album, Wish, was released in 2009 on Sh-K-Boom Records.