Legendary British actress/singer Elaine Paige is set to return to the U.S. stage - in an upcoming Washington, D.C. run of musical FOLLIES, opposite Bernadette Peters.
Peters has already signed on to play Sally Durant Plummer in the Kennedy Center production of the show at the Eisenhower Theater next summer (11)
And Paige, the original Eva Peron in Evita and the original Grizabella in Cats, will join her in the revival of the Stephen Sondheim production, about a reunion of performers who appeared together in a fictional version of Ziegfield's Follies.
Also joining the cast are Linda Lavin, Jan Maxwell, Terri White, Terrence Currier, Rosalind Elias, Florence Lacey, Regine, David Sabin and Susan Watson, reports Variety.
Follies is set to run 7 May through 19 June (11).