Baranski, Bosco, Clark, McGrath, Murphy, Worley, et al. Set for Follies

Initial principal casting has been announced for the City Center Encores! production of the 1971 Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical Follies, which will run February 8-11. The production will be directed by Tony Award nominee Casey Nicholaw, with music direction by Eric Stern.

Christine Baranski will play Carlotta Campion, Philip Bosco will play Dimitri Weismann, Victoria Clark will play Sally Durant Plummer, Michael McGrath will play Buddy Plummer, Donna Murphy will play Phyllis Rogers Stone, and Joanne Worley will play Stella Deems. Casting for the role of Benjamin Stone, as well as some other parts, will be announced at a later date.

The production will also feature Lucine Amara as Heidi Schiller, Leena Chopra as Young Heidi, Yvonne Constant as Solange Lafitte, Robert Fitch as Theodore Whitman, Diane J. Findlay as Sandra Cranes, Arthur Rubin as Roscoe, Dorothy Stanley as Dee Dee West, and Gerry Vichi as Max Deems.

Nicholaw is the director/choreographer of The Drowsy Chaperone and the choreographer of Monty Python’s Spamalot. He has previously worked on the Encores! productions of Can-Can and Bye Bye Birdie. Stern has conducted and arranged more than Broadway musical, and has led such major orchestras as the Boston Pops and the Cleveland Symphony.

Baranski, a two-time Tony Award winner for The Real Thing and Rumors, is currently appearing Off-Broadway in Regrets Only. Bosco, who won a Tony for Lend Me a Tenor, is currently starring on Broadway in Heartbreak House. Clark won a Tony for The Light in the Piazza; next month, she will star in the Vineyard Theatre’s production of The Agony and the Agony. McGrath, who received a Tony nomination for Monty Python’s Spamalot, previously appeared in the Encores! presentations of The Boys From Syracuse and DuBarry Was a Lady. Murphy, a two-time Tony winner for Passion and The King and I, will return to Broadway later this season in LoveMusik. Worley is best known for her starring role on the TV series Laugh-In; last year, she appeared in The Actors’ Fund of America’s benefit concert of On the Twentieth Century.