Sutton Foster Releases Her First Album, Draws Closer to Escape From Clutches of Disney

Sutton Foster released her first solo recording last week. If you don’t know her, it probably means you’ve managed to avoid paying regrettable amounts of money to see some bad Broadway musicals. Yay for you. On the other hand, unlike most of the shows she has done, she is worth seeing and hearing. She has an extraordinary voice, and she’s funny enough to warrant being absolutely indispensable in the plays that she does.

I’m hoping that when she negotiated her contract for her current show, she made sure to collect a hefty percentage of the profits. ‘Cause if her last two shows are at all predictive of how this one will go, after the initial hype sales die down, she’ll become the only real audience draw and the only thing to keep the locals from showing up with pitchforks and torches to burn the evil outta the building.

Sutton Foster is actually playing a Disney princess now. (Disney shows have converged in Broadway theaters, alien podlike, to the horror of decent theater-going folk everywhere. That's because when Rudolf Giuliani became mayor of New York, he sold off Midtown Manhattan to the Disney company in short order. Make no mistake, if the man had become president, we’d all be wearing mouse ears by now. And if you think you might have resisted, revisit Rudy’s record on civil liberties and think again, mein Liebling.) Now even though I regard Disney princesses as Satan’s primary agents of evil in this world and the sworn enemy of all three-dimensional humanity, I’m willing to give Sutton Foster a pass because at least she’s not doing it in a movie where it will infect the culture in epidemic proportions. And also because she is apparently, Disney’s first farting princess. That makes me no more inclined to see the show, but I’m hopeful that it’s a step in the right direction.

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