Sutton Foster and Seth Rudetsky to Exclaim They're Playing Our Song For Actors Fund

Tony winner Sutton Foster and actor/musician/radio host Seth Rudetsky will star in a concert version of They're Playing Our Song on August 30 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College to benefit The Actors Fund. Foster will play Sonja Walsk with Rudetsky taking on the role of Vernon Gersh. Denis Jones will direct, and choreograph with Steve Freeman serving as musical director. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.

Foster is a Tony winner for Thoroughly Modern Millie. She also received nominations for Shrek The Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone and Little Women. Her other Broadway credits include Young Frankenstein, Grease, The Scarlet Pimprnel, Annie, Grease and Les Miserables. She will star in the upcoming off-Broadway play Trust at Second Stage Theatre in August, and has previously performed in Actors Fund concerts of Chess and Funny Girl.

Rudetsky has performed in orchestras for numerous Broadway shows including Ragtime, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Miserables. He made his Broadway debut as an actor in 2007's The Ritz. He has previously staged several other Actors Fund concerts including Dreamgirls and Hair. Rudetsky also served as a vocal coach on the MTV casting series Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods.

Featuring music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and a book by Neil Simon, They're Playing Our Song tells the story of an established composer, Vernon Gersh, who teams up with an eccentric lyricist, Sonja Walsk. The two (loosely based on Hamlisch and Sager) initially find professonal success but personal drama before forming a strong bond. The show originally opened on Broadway on Februrary 11, 1979, starring Lucie Arnaz and Robert Klein and ran for 1,082 performances. The musical received four Tony Award nomiantions including Best Musical.