Overture Magazine - 2015-2016 Season January-February 2016 | Page 36

{ program notes Maestro Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, is a recipient of the 2015 Indiana Historical Society Living Legends Award and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Franklin College in his home state of Indiana. Enigma Variations Jack Everly last appeared with the BSO in January 2016, conducting Cirque de la Symphonie. Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Thursday, February 25, 2016 — 8 p.m. Music Center At Strathmore Sunday, February 28, 2016 — 3 p.m. Sutton Foster Sutton Foster is an award-winning actor, singer and dancer who has performed in 11 Broadway shows — most recently the revival of Violet — and originated roles in the Broadway productions of The Drowsy Chaperone, Little Women, Young Frankenstein, Shrek The Musical, and her Tony Award-winning performances in Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Ms. Foster’s television credits include Bunheads, Psych, Johnny and the Sprites, Flight of the Conchords, Sesame Street, Law and Order SVU and Royal Pains. As a solo artist, Ms. Foster has performed all over the country as well as internationally, performing 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. Foster was born in Statesboro, Georgia, and raised in Troy, Michigan. At the age of 15, she was a contestant on the reality competition show Star Search and also auditioned for the cast of The Mickey Mouse