{"id":2445554,"date":"2019-06-20T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/hunter-foster-discusses-theatre-aspens-guys-and-dolls-production\/"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:16:00","slug":"hunter-foster-discusses-theatre-aspens-guys-and-dolls-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/hunter-foster-discusses-theatre-aspens-guys-and-dolls-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Foster discusses Theatre Aspen\u2019s \u2018Guys and Dolls\u2019 production"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cast members rehearse for Theatre Aspen’s “Guys and Dolls” that opens this weekend in Aspen.<\/strong>
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Director Hunter Foster calls \u201cGuys and Dolls\u201d \u201ctruly one of the great American musicals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe book is so well constructed and has some of the greatest songs ever written,\u201d said the Tony Award-nominated actor-turned-director, who is at the helm of Theatre Aspen\u2019s summer production of \u201cGuys and Dolls\u201d opening this weekend.<\/p>\n

Currently serving as the artistic director for the Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, New York, Foster is an acclaimed musical theater actor, singer, librettist, playwright and director. He is returning to Theatre Aspen for his second season after having directed \u201cOur Town\u201d last summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a joy to work on the show with a relatively younger cast \u2014 many of them apprentices,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir enthusiasm, energy and commitment to the material has been infectious and life-affirming.\u201d<\/p>\n

From an early age, Foster knew he wanted to be in show business. With a dream of becoming a novelist, he started out writing short stories and plays. Eventually, through his academic studies, he began recruiting his friends to participate in the plays that he was writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been the proudest of the things that I have written because that was my initial dream,\u201d he said, noting that he\u2019s written six stage productions and seen five produced. \u201cOf everything that I do, writing is the hardest. It\u2019s thrilling to see your work produced, knowing that it all came from your head and your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foster also is immensely proud of his acting successes, most specifically \u201cUrinetown,\u201d where his 2001 role as Bobby Strong was a career breakthrough that earned Outer Critics Circle Award and a Lucille Lortel Award nominations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was one of the most exciting times of my life,\u201d Foster said. His love for show business most certainly rubbed off on his little sister, Sutton Foster, the lead on the television shows \u201cBunheads\u201d and \u201cYounger\u201d and two-time Tony winner. (Hunter\u2019s Tony nomination came for his role in the 2003 Broadway revival of \u201cLittle Shop of Horrors,\u201d which Theatre Aspen also is producting later this summer.)<\/p>\n

Most recently, Foster directed \u201cThe Other Josh Cohen\u201d Off-Broadway and \u201cThe Drowsy Chaperone\u201d at the Goodspeed Opera House.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs with any show that I direct, I try to create a new experience for the audience, he said. \u201cI want this to be a \u2018Guys and Dolls\u2019 unlike any other \u2018Guys and Dolls\u2019 that people have seen before. I also love that the theater allows us to be immersive, where we can use the aisles and the entire theater as our playing space.\u201d<\/p>\n

A long-standing favorite since the musical romantic comedy first opened on Broadway in 1950, \u201cGuys and Dolls,\u201d set in Depression-era Times Square, follows a couple of big-city gamblers and their unlikely lovers and classics like \u201cAdelaid\u2019s Lament,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve Never Been in Love Before,\u201d \u201cIf I Were a Bell\u201d and \u201cLuck Be a Lady.\u201d<\/p>\n

High-roller Sky Masterson (Tony Roach) falls in love with mission worker Sarah Brown (Sarah Marie Charles) while friend Nathan Detroit (Blakely Slaybaugh) is feeling the pressures of being engaged to Miss Adelaid (Julie Kavanagh) for the past 14 years.<\/p>\n

Foster is excited to be back for another summer in Aspen: \u201cI love it here. I love my hikes in the morning with the snow-capped mountains in the distance. I love the laid-back vibe of Aspen with the bearded snowboarders walking the streets as locals enjoy the outdoor dining scene. I had sort of a spiritual reset last year when I was here and I look forward to feeling refreshed and renewed when I head back to NYC.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cast members rehearse for Theatre Aspen’s “Guys and Dolls” that opens this weekend in Aspen.Courtesy photo Director Hunter Foster calls \u201cGuys and Dolls\u201d \u201ctruly one of the great American musicals.\u201d \u201cThe book is so well constructed and has some of the greatest songs ever written,\u201d said the Tony Award-nominated actor-turned-director, who is at the helm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 01:20:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}