Mimi Hines

Mimi Hines
Publicity photo of Hines and Ford.
Born	July 17, 1933 (1933-07-17) (age 78) Vancouver, Canada

Mimi Hines (born July 17, 1933) is a Canadian-born singer and comedienne best known for her appearances on The Tonight Show and her work on Broadway. She replaced Barbra Streisand in the original production of Funny Girl.

Life and career

Hines was born in Vancouver, Canada, and resides in the United States.^[1]

Hines worked for a time in Anchorage, Alaska, where she met her partner Phil Ford,^[2] while they were working at different night clubs. On August 28, 1958, she and Ford appeared on The Tonight Show for the first time. Hines sang "Till There Was You".^[3]

In 1964 Hines replaced Barbra Streisand on Broadway in Funny Girl, performing the role for 18 months. Following this, she starred in touring companies of "I Do! I Do!" and "Prisoner of Second Avenue", as well as productions of "Anything Goes", "Never Too Late", "The Pajama Game", "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", "No, No, Nanette" and "Sugar".

In recent years Hines played at Feinstein's at the Regency in New York City. She appeared with the Los Angeles Pops Orchestra and starred in national tours of "Sugar Babies" and "Nite Club Confidential" and on a recorded salute to Johnny Mercer called "Mostly Mercer". She toured the world for a year in the title role of "Hello, Dolly!" and starred in productions of "A Majority Of One" and "Can Can" in Florida and in revues featuring the songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman titled "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" in Los Angeles, as well as the songs of Rodgers and Hart titled "This Funny World" at the Kennedy Center in Washington and the songs of Jerry Herman at The Schoenberg Theatre in L.A..

Hines appeared as Mrs. Latimer on the television program "Frasier" and returned to Broadway in 1994 for the Tommy Tune production of "Grease", in which she appeared as the schoolteacher Miss Lynch.^[4]

She also co-starred in the off-Broadway revival of Kander and Ebb's "70, Girls, 70," with Jane Powell, Charlotte Rae and Helen Gallagher, and was a guest in the final week of "The Rosie O'Donnell Show". She performed for L.A.'s reprise, as Letitia Primrose in "On The Twentieth Century" and in 2005 as Berthe in "Pippin".^[5] She co-starred in 2002 as Sister Mary Amnesia in the National Tour of the 20th Anniversary production of "Nunsense", along with Kaye Ballard, Georgia Engel, Lee Meriwether and Darlene Love,^[6] and starred in "And Then She Wrote" at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Springs with Peter Marshall and Christine Andreas.

In 2007 Mimi Hines starred in the City Center Encores! production of "Follies".^[7]

References

1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385699/, The Internet Movie Database, Mimi Hines, Retrieved September 11, 2010.
2. ^ "Phil Ford Biography". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285829/bio. Retrieved 4 November 2011. 
3. ^ http://feinsteinsattheregency.com/bio.php?id=34, Feinsteins at the Regency, New York's Night Club, Performer Bios, Mimi Hines, Retrieved September 11, 2010.
4. ^ http://feinsteinsattheregency.com/bio.php?id=34, Feinsteins at the Regency, New York's Night Club, Performer Bios, Mimi Hines, Retrieved September 11, 2010.
5. ^ http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Garber_and_Hines_Join_Encores_Follies_Concert_page1, Broadway World, Garber and Hines Join Encores! Follies Concert, November 29, 2006, Retrieved September 11, 2010.
6. ^ http://nunsense.com/author.cfm, Nunsense, Retrieved September 11, 2010.
7. ^ http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Garber_and_Hines_Join_Encores_Follies_Concert_page1, Broadway World, Garber and Hines Join Encores! Follies Concert, November 29, 2006, Retrieved September 11, 2010.

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Date of birth	July 17, 1933
Place of birth	Vancouver, Canada
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