Education NewsWatch Sutton Foster’s Commencement Address at Boston Conservatory’s Class of 2019The two-time Tony Award winner and Younger star received an Honorary Doctorate from the college May 11.
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Ryan McPhee
May 15, 2019
Sutton Foster addressed the class of 2019 at Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s commencement ceremony May 11. Watch the honorary doctorate recipient's speech in the video above.
The two-time Tony Award winner and star of TV Land’s Younger had three pieces of advice for the graduates: “Say yes” (which Foster has done numerous times in her career—and quite literally on Say Yes to the Dress), “Trust your gut” (as she did when choosing an understudy track in Thoroughly Modern Millie over starring in Les Misérables), and “Get a hobby” (other than waiting for approval from somebody else).
Interspersed between her pearls of wisdom were nods to show tunes, including Kander and Ebb’s “Yes,” Les Misérables’ “On My Own,” and even an all-too-quick “Rose’s Turn.”
Foster, who last starred on Broadway in Violet, will return to the stage in 2020 opposite Hugh Jackman in The Music Man.
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A young Sutton Foster starred as Annie with the Augusta Players
Sutton Foster in Les Miserables
Sutton Foster in Les Miserables
Sutton Foster in the company of Grease
Sutton Foster (standing, left) played Star-To-Be and performed in the ensemble of the 1997 revival of Annie
Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
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Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Joan Marcus
Megan McGinnis, Amy McAlexander, Jenny Powers, Maureen McGovern and Sutton Foster in Little Women
Maureen McGovern and Sutton Foster in Little Women
The cast of Little Women
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Sutton Foster and cast in The Drowsy Chaperone
Sutton Foster in The Drowsy Chaperone
Sutton Foster in The Drowsy Chaperone
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Roger Bart, Sutton Foster and Christopher Fitzgerald in Young Frankenstein
Sutton Foster and Roger Bart in Young Frankenstein
Sutton Foster and Roger Bart in Young Frankenstein
Leah Greenhaus, Sutton Foster and Marissa O’Donnell in Shrek
Brian d'Arcy James, Daniel Breaker and Sutton Foster in Shrek on Broadway
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