Alli Sutton, a Hatboro native, is touring with the first national production of \u2018The Great Gatsby\u201d at Philadelphia\u2019s Academy of Music October 20 through November 1.<\/p>\n
A Point Park University musical theater graduate, Sutton previously toured with \u201cHadestown\u201d. She was recently interviewed<\/a> by Metro Philadelphia to discuss her journey from local theatergoer to touring performer.<\/p>\n An excerpt:<\/p>\n Was there a particular theater experience that made you realize: This is what I want to do?<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t grow up doing a whole lot of theater, actually. I did a couple of shows in middle school \u2014 I was Flounder in \u2018The Little Mermaid.\u2019 But when I was in high school, I didn\u2019t really have a community for that, so I actually delved into voice training and studied opera. That gave me a totally different understanding of the voice and how to sing like an athlete, and that gave me the love for this. I went to college for musical theater in Pittsburgh, which sort of tied everything all together for me.<\/p>\n Sutton also discussed her role in the musical with Positively Philly to talk about her role(s) in The Great Gatsby musical. Check out the clip:<\/p>\n For tickets to the show, you can click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n For all the latest news, follow us on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or sign up for Glenside Local\u2019s \u201cDaily Buzz\u201d newsletter\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photos: Instagram, Broadway World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alli Sutton, a Hatboro native, is touring with the first national production of \u2018The Great Gatsby\u201d at Philadelphia\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-310434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}