On the heels of her appearance on “Dancing with the Stars,” Utah influencer and “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Whitney Leavitt is headed to Broadway.
Leavitt will be taking on the role of Roxie Hart in “Chicago” at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City, beginning early next year.
She shared the news on social media Monday, writing that she is “grateful beyond words” to be joining the production.
Although this will be Leavitt’s first professional theater role, per Deadline, she took on a wide variety of dance routines during this past season of “Dancing with the Stars” — including an Argentine tango set to “Cell Block Tango” from “Chicago.”
Leavitt and her pro partner, Mark Ballas, earned consistently high marks from the judges during their run on “Dancing with the Stars,” but were ultimately eliminated during the show’s semifinals after they didn’t win enough audience votes, as the Deseret News previously reported.
Leavitt, who is a mom of three kids and has over 4 million social media followers, faced a “tidal wave of online hate” during her “DWTS” run, USA Today reported, in part due to her portrayal on Hulu’s reality TV series “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” the third season of which premiered in the middle of the “Dancing with the Stars” season.
“I am used to the hate. And so with Season 1 and Season 2 of ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ being out, like I just didn’t think I was going to make it that far in ‘Dancing with the Stars’ because I already knew the persona that I had in the media,” Leavitt told Alex Cooper on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, per USA Today. “So I didn’t think people were going to really vote for me.”
Leavitt’s role in “Chicago” begins Feb. 2 and runs through March 15, 2026.