Sandy Duncan, Fred Willard Join Rosie O'Donnell in Encores! No, No, Nanette

Sandy Duncan, Fred Willard, Shonn Wiley and Mara Davi will join previously announced cast members Rosie O'Donnell and Beth Leavel in No, No, Nanette, the final 2008 Encores! presentation. Directed by Walter Bobbie, with music direction by Rob Fisher and choreography by Randy Skinner, No, No, Nanette will play six performances, from May 8 to May 12, 2008, at New York City Center.

Based on the comedy My Lady Friends by Frank Mandel and Emily Nyitray, No, No, Nanette is a light-hearted tale of millionaires, misunderstood wives, bathing beauties, wanton women and flappers. Nanette Davi, a young Manhattan heiress, tries to experience life by running away to Atlantic City, only to be followed by her straight-laced, tap-dancing fiancé Wiley, her cook/chaperone O'Donnell, her lawyer and his wife Leavel and her legal guardians Duncan and Willard, who just want everyone to "be happy."

No, No, Nanette, which has music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, and book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, opened on Broadway in 1925 and was revived and reconceived in 1971 in a production supervised by Busby Berkeley and adapted and directed by Bert Shevelove. Encores! will present the 1971 version, which features such classic songs as "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy."

Duncan has been nominated for Tony Awards for her performances in Canterbury Tales, The Boy Friend and Peter Pan. Other Broadway credits include Chicago and My One and Only. Among her most prominent television roles were Sandy Hogan on the sitcom The Hogan Family and her starring role in Funny Face later renamed The Sandy Duncan Show.

Willard is currently starring alongside Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton in the Fox television comedy Back to You. He is well known for his roles in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, most notably A Mighty Wind and Best in Show. His off-Broadway credits include Little Murders, Arf! and The Great Airplane Snatch.

Wiley made his Broadway debut in the Broadway revival of 42nd Street and was recently seen on Broadway in Dracula: The Musical. Off-Broadway credits include The View From Here and Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story. His previous Encores! credits include On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and last season's Stairway to Paradise.

Davi is currently appearing on Broadway as Janet van de Graaff in The Drowsy Chaperone and made her Broadway debut as Maggie in the revival of A Chorus Line. She starred in the international tour of 42nd Street and has appeared in regional productions of White Christmas, Singin' in the Rain and Dames at Sea and in the Encores! production of Of Thee I Sing.