Victor Garber and Mimi Hines Join the Starry Cast of Encores! Follies

Victor Garber will play Benjamin Stone and Mimi Hines will star as Hattie Walker alongside previously announced stars Donna Murphy, Christine Baranski, Victoria Clark and Philip Bosco in Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies. The tuner is the first offering of New York City Center's 2007 Encores! Season and will feature direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw of The Drowsy Chaperone and Spamalot. Follies will play for five performances, from February 8 -11, 2007.

Follies takes place in the present and the past simultaneously. On the eve of its destruction, the once-glorious Weissman Theatre is filled with the ghosts of its past, as veteran showgirls from the Weismann's Follies based on the Ziegfeld Follies reunite to rekindle the aura of the glamorous old days and relive lost memories of promise and splendor. As the evening goes on, the former showgirls reminisce about their past experiences, both good and bad. Follies opened on Broadway on April 4, 1971, winning eight Tony Awards.

Garber, who plays the husband of Phyllis Stone Donna Murphy, will put his mark on famous songs like, "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs," "The Road You Didn't Take," Too Many Mornings" and "Live, Laugh and Love." He was nominated for Tony Awards for his work in Damn Yankees, Lend Me A Tenor, Deathtrap and Little Me and also appeared on Broadway in Arcadia, Noises Off and Sweeney Todd. Familiar film roles include Titanic, The First Wives Club, Sleepless in Seattle and Legally Blonde and he was nominated for Emmy Awards for the ABC miniseries, "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," and "Alias."

Hines, who is best known for replacing Barbra Streisand in Broadway's Funny Girl, will sing and dance to "Broadway Baby." The actress and comedienne's other stage credits include I Do! I Do!, Prisoner of Second Avenue, Anything Goes, Never Too Late, Pajama Game, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Hello Dolly! and Pippin.

In addition to Garber and Hines, the Follies cast includes Lucine Amara Heidi Schiller, Christine Baranski Carlotta Campion, Philip Bosco Dimitri Weismann, Leena Chopra Young Heidi, Victoria Clark Sally Durant Plummer, Yvonne Constant Solange, Diane J. Findlay Sandra Cranes, Robert Fitch Theodore Whitman, Michael McGrath Buddy Plummer, Donna Murphy Phyllis Rogers Stone, Arthur Rubin Roscoe, Dorothy Stanley Dee Dee West, Gerry Vichi Max Deems and JoAnne Worley Stella Deems.