In 1964, Hines and Ford filmed a pilot episode for a potential sitcom, Mimi, that would have starred the two as owners of a resort hotel, but the series was not picked up for airing.

[4] In 1965, she and Phil Ford starred in the obscure comedy "Saturday Night Bath In Apple Valley", which was long-forgotten until Something Weird Video unearthed it and issued it on homevideo for the first time.

In 1966, Hines succeeded Barbra Streisand on Broadway in Funny Girl,[5] performing the role for eighteen months, after which she starred in touring companies of I Do!

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, How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

[3] 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.

[6] 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.