“Kiss her already!”
That’s what Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster would have heard from hecklers when they performed together in “The Music Man” — and they did.
Years before rumors of his new romance went public, the actor appeared on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” to promote his Broadway musical following the COVID pandemic.
“Broadway was non-existent for about two years. And I feel like there’s this shared feeling of gratitude between the people on stage and the audience. And the show is so much fun, and I’m having the time of my life playing with this guy,” Foster, 49, said in May 2022.
“You had to say this, but thank you,” Jackman, 56, teased.
“I did it!” Foster added. “But it feels like – it’s a dream come true. Really.”
The pair played Professor Harold Hill and Marion Parru respectively on stage and recalled some of their most memorable scenes together.
“The Music Man” runs on the Great White Way from December 2021 to January 2023.
“We are in another act. We have a very long scene where we start to break up and fall in love with each other, and this person is sneezing over and over again. And then at one point he said, ‘Bless you,'” the “Younger” actress recalled to host Seth Meyers.
He added, “And then it was over and then he walked out and left me on the stage to suffer the wrath.”
Both also agreed that they were “afraid” of each other at that time.
“Yeah. You’re Hugh Jackman,” Foster said on NBC’s late-night show. “And then our names are, like, really big, like, a giant billboard. And I said, ‘Oh my God, when they If you have to take my place, it will cost a lot of money. …but I was pretty sure I was going to be fired for several weeks.
The ‘Wolverine’ actor said he was ‘definitely’ intimidated by the actress as well.
“This is a six-time Tony nominee, two-time winner. Like, I saw her singing ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ when you were 4 years old. But I’ve seen everything he’s done,” he said, praising him. “It’s amazing. And I’m the guy who, in my first show, ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ it was written into my contract that I had to take singing lessons once a week.
There was a news earlier this month Jackman and Foster are “in love” But have been keeping their romance a secret.
“They spend all their free time together,” a source tells Page Six. “They’re a regular couple, they’re just in private.” To stay under the radar, “they sneak around.”
Foster recently filed for divorce from her husband In 10 years, “Ocean’s Eleven” screenwriter Ted Griffin. The exiles have an adopted daughter. He also put his Tuxedo Park, NY home on the market for $2.2 million.
Meanwhile, Jackman announced the end of his The 27-year-old married actress Deborra-Lee Furness in September 2023.
“Debra-Lee became suspicious when Hugh started working with Sutton,” a source told the Daily Mail on Saturday. “Their relationship is no secret to him.”