Victoria Clark Cast as Sally in Encores! Follies

Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark has found her next role--vulnerable ex-showgirl Sally Durant Plummer in the upcoming Encores! staged concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, which will run from February 8th through 11th at City Center.

The show will mark the full-scale New York presentation of Sondheim's score for Follies in more than two decades.  Tony Award-winner Paul Gemignani will conduct.  Follies concerns two couples--both comprised of former Weismann Girls and their stage door Johnnies--who confront the ghosts of the past while at a reunion for the soon-to-be demolished theatre where the Follies once took place. 

"We'll open the season with Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies. For many theatergoers of my generation, Follies was a first exposure to this kind of material, as Stephen Sondheim wrote brilliant pastiches of songs from the teens, '20s and '30s in the style of Gershwin, Berlin and Porter. We'll begin with those wonderful re-imaginings, and spend the season delving back into the originals," previously said Encores! artistic director Jack Viertel.  Next season, Encores! will celebrate the golden age of the Broadway revue; the other shows include Irving Berlin's Face the Music and Stairway to Paradise, celebrating "the very best material from a half century of Broadway revues, and will include numbers and sketches from Florenz Ziegfeld's shows and other legendary musicals and revues of the era."

Clark, who won a Tony for her performance as Margaret Johnson in The Light in the Piazza, has previously appeared on Broadway in Urinetown, Cabaret, Titanic, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Grand Night for Singing and Guys and Dolls. She also appeared in the San Francisco concert version of Sweeney Todd, and film and TV credits include Cradle Will Rock, Anastasia and "Law and Order."

The original production of Follies starred Dorothy Collins, Alexis Smith, John McMartin and Gene Nelson.  It opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on April 4th, 1971 to run for 522 performances, and was revived on Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2001.  

No other casting has been announced.