No, No, Nanette: Charles Kimbrough and Michael Berresse joins cast

Charles Kimbrough and Michael Berresse will join previously announced cast members Sandy Duncan, Rosie O�Donnell, Beth Leavel, Mara Davi and Shonn Wiley in No, No, Nanette, the final 2008 Encores! presentation of the New York City Center season.

The musical will be directed by former Encores! artistic director Walter Bobbie, with music direction by Encores! founding music director Rob Fisher and choreography by Randy Skinner.

No, No, Nanette will play six performances, from 8 - 12 May 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 (Mara Davi), a young Manhattan heiress, tries to experience life by running away to the big, bad and bawdy town of Atlantic City, only to be followed by her straight-laced, tap-dancing fianc� (Shonn Wiley), her cook/chaperone (Rosie O�Donnell), her lawyer (Michael Berresse) and his wife (Beth Leavel) and her legal guardian (Charles Kimbrough), who just want everyone to �be happy.� (note: Kimbrough replaces the previously announced Fred Willard).

No, No, Nanette, which has music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, and book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, has had two major Broadway productions: the show originally opened in 1925, and then 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 of Nanette. The show features such songs as �Tea for Two� and �I Want to Be Happy.�

The cast will also feature Sandy Duncan (Sue Smith), Shonn Wiley (Tom Trainor), Nancy Anderson (Winnie Winslow), Jennifer Cody (Betty Brown) and Angel Reda (Flora Latham).

The ensemble features David Baum, Brandon Davidson, Leah Edwards, Sara Edwards, Zak Edwards, Mary Giattino, Luke Hawkins, Matthew J. Kilgore, Cara Kjellman, Todd Lattimore, Deborah Lew, Ryan Malyar, Brent McBeth, Alessa Neeck, Carolann M. Sanita, Kiira Schmidt, Chad Seib, Kelly Sheehan, Anna Aimee White and Jacob ben Widmar.