This Dancing With the Stars contestant goes from the ballroom to Broadway!

Following her run on season 34 of the beloved dancing competitors sequence, Whitney Leavitt will make her Broadway debut to star as Roxie Hart within the newest manufacturing of Chicago. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star's six-week run as a part of the manufacturing begins subsequent 12 months.

Leavitt introduced the information with a publish shared to her Instagram web page on Monday. "

Grateful past phrases to ANNOUNCE that I might be becoming a member of @chicagomusical within the iconic position of Roxie Hart," she captioned the publish that includes a video of her to the long-lasting intro of her character's titular musical quantity. "See you in New York Metropolis!"

Followers can see Leavitt as Roxie Hart on the Ambassador Theatre, along with her performances working from Feb. 2 via March 15, 2026.

The coveted position marks the 32-year-old's first foray into skilled theater, however she's confirmed to be a formidable performer after her time on DWTS. The mom of three and her professional accomplice, Mark Ballas, earned constantly excessive scores, effusive reward from the judges, and made a marked arc of enchancment all through her run on the present's thirty fourth season.

Regardless of such a praiseworthy displaying, Leavitt and Ballas had been despatched packing forward of the season's grand finale.

That elimination proved to be controversial, with some believing the premiere of Secret Lives season 3 between the semifinals and finale of DWTS turned the dancing fandom in opposition to Leavitt.

Even her castmate, Andy Richter, has spoken out about being a type of believers. Final month, the comic and longtime late-night mainstay — who made all of it the way in which to week 9 alongside professional accomplice Emma Slater earlier than being eradicated — instructed Leisure Weekly that Leavitt being despatched house throughout season 34's semifinals was "completely insane."

"I imply, she's a tremendous dancer. And if all of the sticklers who had been livid about me nonetheless being in it, who had been demanding good technical dancing, I don't know why she would get despatched house beneath that criterion," Richter mentioned.

Nevertheless, the host of Sirius XM's The Three Questions With Andy Richter podcast acknowledged "there's a complete cleaning soap opera happening adjoining to this present on-line."

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"It's a great way to type of take the temperature of what the viewers is feeling by way of voting," he added. "I've seen ceaselessly, there's like folks similar to, 'Whitney's gotta go,' and I'm similar to, 'What? Why?'"

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Richter theorized that the pushback in opposition to Leavitt has to do with Leavitt's status on the Hulu actuality sequence Mormon Wives, wherein he mentioned he "has heard that she's form of the villain," an assertion he discovered preposterous.

"I have to inform you that Whitney was one of many sweetest, most optimistic loving folks on that present," he defined. "Past anyone else, from the second I met her, she was loving, and profitable, and sort, and thoughtful, and extremely optimistic in direction of me… She was one of many those who positively made me really feel that I used to be a invaluable member of this group."

Leavitt has beforehand opened up about being painted as an antagonist on the fact sequence that follows a bunch of Mormon influencers, which premiered in 2024.

"There have been choices that I made throughout that present that no person requested me to do," she mentioned. "Like, I willingly did that, however there was no context behind why I had made sure choices." The ensuing image of her on the sequence "put [her] in a darkish place" and "made it laborious to observe [back]."

Regardless of the drawbacks, it's clear that Leavitt is leveraging her notoriety to make her goals come true, to Broadway and past.

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