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ABC Family’s Bunheads With Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop to Debut on June 11

Kelly Bishop
(© Tristan Fuge)
Kelly Bishop
(© Tristan Fuge)

The upcoming ABC Family show, Bunheads will debut on Monday, June 11, according to EW.com.

As previously reported, Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will star in the series as Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl who marries a man on a whim and moves to his sleepy coastal town, taking an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law’s dance school. Tony Award winner Kelly Bishop will play the mother-in-law, Fanny.

Foster is a two-time Tony Award winner for Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and her other Broadway credits include Shrek the Musical and Little Women.


Bishop won Tony and Drama Desk Awards for originating the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line. Her Broadway credits also include Proposals, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Six Degrees of Separation, and most recently, Anything Goes.