Sutton Foster on Her and Hugh Jackman's Pre-Show Ritual at Broadway's The Music Man

Sutton Foster visited The Late Show With Stephen Colbert March 7 to talk about her performance in the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, in which she co-stars with fellow Tony winner Hugh Jackman. Watch Foster and Colbert's conversation above.

Among topics discussed: Foster's experience returning to Broadway for the first time since having her daughter and a rustic pre-show ritual that she and Jackman share at the Winter Garden.

"He comes to visit in my dressing room and we have carpet chat," Foster tells Colbert. I have things to actually sit on, but for some reason we end up on the floor."

As for Foster's five-year-old daughter Emily, apparently she is not an easily swayed audience member.

"I asked her, I said, 'You didn't clap?' And she said, 'Well, I need time to process. I'm not going to conform to the masses and just do what everyone else is doing.' So, I respect that."

Foster and Jackman opened in The Music Man at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre February 10. Read the reviews here. They star as Marian Paroo and Harold Hill, respectively, along with Tony winners Shuler Hensley as Marcellus Washburn, Jefferson Mays as Mayor Shinn, Jayne Houdyshell as Mrs. Shinn, and Marie Mullen as Mrs. Paroo.

Jerry Zaks directs the new production of the Meredith Willson-penned musical, which also features choreography by Warren Carlyle, sets and costumes by Santo Loquasto, sound design by Scott Lehrer, lighting by Brian MacDevitt, vocal and dance arrangements by David Chase, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, and music direction by Patrick Vaccariello.