Beth Leavel
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Date of Birth:
November 01, 1955 (66)
Birth Place: Raleigh, NC, USA
Bio:
Tony, Drama Desk, OCC, L.A. Drama Critics award winner for her performance as the title role in The Drowsy Chaperone. Other Broadway: The Prom, Baby It's You! (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC award nominations), Bandstand, Elf, Mamma Mia!, Young Frankenstein, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, The Civil War, Show ...
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Tony, Drama Desk, OCC, L.A. Drama Critics award winner for her performance as the title role in The Drowsy Chaperone. Other Broadway: The Prom, Baby It's You! (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC award nominations), Bandstand, Elf, Mamma Mia!, Young Frankenstein, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, The Civil War, Show Boat.Beth Leavel Awards and Nominations
Drama Desk Awards - 2019 - Outstanding Actress in a Musical | ||
Beth Leavel, The Prom | ||
Drama League Awards - 2019 - Distinguished Performance Award | ||
Beth Leavel, The Prom | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2019 - Outstanding Actress in a Musical | ||
Beth Leavel, The Prom | ||
Tony Awards - 2019 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | ||
Beth Leavel, The Prom | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 2011 - Outstanding Actress in a Musical | ||
Beth Leavel, Baby It's You! | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2011 - Outstanding Actress in a Musical | ||
Beth Leavel, Baby It's You! | ||
Tony Awards - 2011 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | ||
Beth Leavel, Baby It's You! | ||
Kevin Kline Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical | ||
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Drama Desk Awards - 2006 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical ![]() |
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Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2006 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical ![]() |
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Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone | ||
Tony Awards - 2006 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical ![]() |
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Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone |
Beth Leavel News

by A.A. Cristi - May 13, 2022
Centenary Stage Company's Young Performers Workshop returns this spring from July 11 through August 14, and the deadline to apply is July 8. This is a 15-week theatre training program for performers ages 8-18 that offers classes in dance, acting, singing, stage combat, technical theatre, and so much more.

by Stephi Wild - May 10, 2022
Lyric Theatre has been named the Official Theatre of the State of Oklahoma. Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 1385, authored by Senate Democratic Leader Kay Floyd and House Majority Leader Jon Echols, bestowing the honor for the flagship theatre founded in 1963.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 5, 2022
The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation’s 12th annual Broadway Belts for PFF! raised a record $475,000 in a new hybrid format on April 29. The sold-out gala at New York City’s Edison Ballroom, live streamed for the first time, is the single largest fundraiser in the Foundation’s history.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 5, 2022
Today, New 42 announced the in-person return of their annual gala, celebrating the power of the performing arts and arts education. The Find Your Light Gala will return to the Plaza Hotel on Monday, June 6, 2022 at 7pm.

by Bruce Glikas - May 4, 2022
A Strange Loop has arrived on Broadway at last! The Broadway production of Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, opened just last week at the Lyceum Theater, directed by Stephen Brackett and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly.

by - Apr 28, 2022
Yesterday, POTUS and Mr. Saturday Night both officially opened on Broadway. Read the reviews here! Plus, new casting announced for Wicked, go inside rehearsal for Into The Woods at Encores!, and more!

by Alan Henry - Apr 27, 2022
The Pre-Broadway World Premiere will run for a limited five-week engagement, July 19 - August 21, 2022, at Broadway In Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 27, 2022
Broadway and Vine, intersecting the best of Broadway with the best of Wine Country will open its second season with Lea Michele (GLEE, Spring Awakening). The Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee will make her Napa Valley performance debut at Carneros Resort’s Hilltop Vineyard on Tuesday, June 7th.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 19, 2022
Derrick Davis (The Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, Carousel, Film's A Christmas Story, Can a Song Save Your Life), Arielle Jacobs (Aladdin, Wicked, Between the Lines, and In the Heights) and Telly Leung (Aladdin, Rent, TV's Glee, and Allegiance) will join the star-studded cast featuring previously announced performers.

by Stephi Wild - Apr 19, 2022
Arielle Jacobs and Telly Leung have been added to the lineup for the 12th annual Broadway Belts for PFF!, an unforgettable evening of entertainment featuring some of Broadway's hottest stars.
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by Backstage With Richard Ridge - Feb 11, 2022
Tonight's the night! Broadway stars align at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts this weekend as they come together for two performances only (February 11 and 12) of 50 Years of Broadway at the Kennedy Center.

by BroadwayWorld TV - May 18, 2021
BroadwayWorld sat down with the creators and stars of the new Spectrum Originals series, The Bite to discuss what viewers can expect and more! Check out interviews with Audra McDonald and Will Swenson, Phillipa Soo and Steven Pasquale, Leslie Uggams, and The Bite's creators, executive producers and Writers Robert and Michelle King.

by Stage Tube - Apr 19, 2021
Just last night, The York Theatre Company presented an All-Singing, All-Talking, All-Virtual special benefit presentation of the Off-Broadway hit THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!)...and More!, available to view on demand through April 21, 2021.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Jan 12, 2021
Tony Award-winning actor Beth Leavel has teamed up with PETA to salute Major with an original show tune all about adoption and how to play safely with a rescued dog. President-Elect Biden famously had to wear a walking boot after tripping over Major.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 30, 2020
Beth Leavel makes her fiction podcast debut as the focus of next Monday’s episode of In Strange Woods. Known primarily for her comedic roles, here Leavel makes a fierce dramatic turn with her tour-de-force performance as Sandra Howland-Pierce, estranged cousin to Howl, played by Tony Award nominee Patrick Page.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Dec 22, 2020
Today we rewind to 2010, when Elf opened on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where it played for 57 performances.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Jul 16, 2020
Today we flashback to 2017, when Bandstand performed on the Bryant Park stage. Bandstand played for 166 performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, starring Laura Osnes, Corey Cott, Beth Leavel, Alex Bender, Joe Carroll, Brandon J. Ellis, James Nathan Hopkins and Geoff Packard.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Jul 5, 2020
Today we rewind to 2018 when The Prom opened on Broadway. The Prom, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, played for 309 performances at the Longacre Theatre.

by Stage Tube - May 27, 2020
The original Broadway and London casts of The Drowsy Chaperone have reunited in song for a virtual fundraiser! The performers came together to sing 'As We Stumble Along (Reprise)'.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Apr 17, 2020
BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge says, 'This episode of Broadway Rewind features a heart, a hustler and a hoofer.' We give you a sneak peek at the Broadway musical 'The Drowsy Chaperone', which welcomed back to Broadway, Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and introduced us all to Bob Martin as Man in Chair. We also met the cast of Mark St. Germain's play, 'The God Committee', but the episode starts at the opening night of Roundabout's production of Joe Orton's comedy 'Entertaining Mr. Sloane' which featured a stellar cast including Chris Carmack, Alex Baldwin and the late great Jan Maxwell, whom Richard Ridge says, 'was one of the greatest actresses of her generation'.