Annie Golden (The Full Monty, Assassins - original Off-Broadway cast), Donna Lynne Champlin (Hollywood Arms, My Life with Albertine), Asa Somers (Dance of the Vampires), Yassmin Alers (Rent), Jennifer Allen, (Little Me), Allen Fitzpatrick (Sweet Smell of Success), Heather Tom (Prymate, "One Life to Live"), Karin Wolfe (Bye Bye Birdie, Gigi), Donald Grody (Caroline, or Change), Remy Auberjonois (Strictly Academic), Bill Mooney (Lolita, "All My Children") and Ron Palillo ("Welcome Back, Kotter") are some of the names confirmed by a Fringe spokesperson.

Golden, Fitzpatrick and Grody are featured in the cast of Mimi Le Duck which also stars Robert DuSold (Jekyll & Hyde), Bryan Scott Johnson (Almost Heaven: Songs & Stories of John Denver, Denver Center) and Kristine Zbornik (Forbidden Broadway). The musical — in which the ghost of Hemingway convinces a duck painter to leave her home in Idaho for Paris — features music by Brian Feinstein with a book and lyrics by Diana Hansen-Young.

The other actors can be seen as follows: Alers (Subway Train), Allen (Martha & Me: A Musical), Auberjonois (Big Trouble in Little Hazzard directed by Omnium Gatherum's Will Frears), Champlin (Ellen Craft: A New Opera), Mooney (They All Wanted In The Act), Palillo (Daddy Was The Biggest Stagemother In Texas!), Somers (Andru's Head with choreography by Mark Dendy of Taboo), Tom (Moonchild) and Wolfe (Burning Botticelli).

Over 200 selections — from over 800 applicants — will play at the FringeNYC 2004. On par with previous years' entries (Elephant Titus, Moliere Than Thou, and Poop to name a few), companies seem to be vying for attention with eccentric show titles for this, the eighth annual festival.

Among the eye-catching titles selected for this year's festival include: