Tony Winner Beth Leavel to Star in Broadway's Mamma Mia!

Tony Award winner Beth Leavel will assume the leading role of Donna Sheridan in the Broadway company of Mamma Mia! beginning on September 22. Leavel will be joined by Tony nominee John Dossett, who returns to the show as Sam Carmichael, replacing Sean Allan Krill. No word yet on a departure date for the show’s long-running Donna, Carolee Carmello, who will create the role of Alice Beineke in the pre-Broadway run of The Addams Family in November.

Leavel, a Tony winner for playing the title role in The Drowsy Chaperone, recently starred in the world premiere musical Minsky’s at L.A.’s Ahmanson Theatre and as Lucille Early in the Encores! production of No, No, Nanette. Other Broadway credits include Young Frankenstein, 42nd Street (original and revival), The Civil War, Show Boat and the original company of Crazy for You.

Dossett first played Sam in Mamma Mia! in 2005. A Tony nominee opposite Bernadette Peters in Gypsy, he recently starred in the world premiere of the musicals Giant at Signature Theatre and The First Wives Club at the Old Globe. Broadway credits include The Constant Wife, Democracy, Ragtime, Dinner at Eight and An Almost Holy Picture. Off-Broadway, he played the lead in Saved and appeared in A Little Night Music at the Kennedy Center.

Now in its eighth year at the Winter Garden Theatre, Mamma Mia! recently became the 15th longest running show on Broadway. Set to the songs of ABBA, the musical tells the show of a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father by bringing three men from her mother’s past to the Greek island they last visited 20 years ago.