Cast of Stage Vets Joins Garber in Encores! Mounting of Of Thee I Sing

Jefferson Mays, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Lewis J. Stadlen, Jonathan Freeman, Erick Devine, Michael Mulheren, David Pittu, Wayne Duvall and Jeffry Denman will join Victor Garber in the Encores! mounting of Of Thee I Sing. The show, directed by John Rando, is scheduled to run at City Center from May 11 through May 15.

Mays is best known for his Tony Award-winning portrayal of Charlotta von Mahlsdorf in I Am My Own Wife. Thomson received a Tony nomination for her work in Urinetown. Stadlen received Tony nominations for his performances in the musicals A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and Candide. Freeman's Broadway credits include 42nd Street, On the Town, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, She Loves Me for which he received a Tony nomination and Sherlock Holmes. Devine has appeared on the Great White Way in Seussical, Ragtime and Cats. Mulheren received a Tony nomination for her work in Kiss Me, Kate. Pittu is currently appearing in Stuff Happens off-Broadway. Duvall's many movie credits include Apollo 13, The Deep End of the Ocean and The Hard Rain. Denman has been seen on Broadway in The Producers and in the national tour of White Christmas.

Of Thee I Sing features music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. It opened on Broadway in 1931 and was the first Broadway musical to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The piece opens in an election year, as the National Party campaigns for their presidential nominee, John P. Wintergreen Garber, running on a platform based on love.