PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Hunter Foster

By Ernio Hernandez
13 Oct 2009

Hunter Foster
Hunter Foster

Hunter Foster — who co-stars in the new Off-Broadway musical Ordinary Days — fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits.


Full given name: Robert Hunter Foster
Hometown: Augusta, GA
Audition song: "Bed of Roses" by Bon Jovi
Special skills: Break Dancing
First Broadway show ever saw: 1987 revival of Cabaret
If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? Carrie
Current show you have been recommending to friends: Hair
Favorite show tune: "Pretty Women" - Sweeney Todd
Most played song on your iPod: "Beautiful Day" (by U2)
Web obsession: MLB.com
Last book you read: I hate to admit it but "The Lost Symbol" (Dan Brown)
Must-see TV show: "Lost"
Last good movie you saw: "Food, Inc."
Favorite board game: Risk
Performer you would drop everything to go see: Jen Cody
Pop culture guilty pleasure: "Big Brother"
First stage kiss: Alice Milligan (high school production of Grease-1987)
Favorite pre-show meal: Basil chicken from Yum Yum Bangkok
How you got your Equity card: South Pacific at Birmingham Theatre in Michigan (Starring: Marin Mazzie, Ann Harada, Christiane Noll, choreographed by Rob Marshall around 1991)
Worst flubbed line: I once did a show with Fyvush Finkel, and we both went up and improvised dialogue for a good five minutes.
Worst costume ever: There was this outfit we wore in the 1994 revival of Grease during "Beauty School Dropout." It looked like something out of Star Trek, with giant orange Little Richard hair and three-inch heels.
Pets' names: Chewbacca and Stella
Favorite junk food: French fries
Who would play you in the movie? Tim Robbins
Worst job you ever had: Singing banana
TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed: Singing the jingle for Office Max: "And that's why Max means more!"
Leading man role you've been dying to play: Daniel Caffey in A Few Good Men
If you and your sister Sutton could adopt another sibling, who would the third Foster child be? Danny Burstein