Correspondent Perry Sook chats with THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES dog trainer Lydia DesRoche and dog handler Perla Martinez about keeping the musical’s two pups ready for center stage. Get tickets to THE QUEEN OF …

Lydia DesRoche has worked with everything from snakes to goats in her years as a Broadway animal trainer, and now she is the woman behind the two dogs who play Midas alongside headliner Kristin Chenoweth in The…

Age: 27 Hometown: Grosse Pointe, Michigan Current Role: Nina White plays Victoria "Rikki" Siegel in The Queen of Versailles. Credits: White made her Broadway debut originating the role of Teresa in Kimberly …

Get to know THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES standout Nina White! Get tickets to THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES: https://www.broadway.com/shows/the-queen-of-versailles/ Read the full feature: https://www.broadway.com/buzz…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on November 20 to confirm the eligibility status of nine Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season. This was the first time this season that the committee met to…

The Tony Administration Committee issued decisions on Ragtime, Punch, The Queen of Versailles, and more.

Picture a small blonde tornado – bursting with energy and dressed in hot pink wearing high heels. That’s Kristen Chenoweth portraying the real-life Jackie Siegel in The Queen of Versailles. Chenoweth stars …

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met to confirm the eligibility status of nine Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season. This was the first time this season that the Tony Awards Administration Comm…

Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth is back on Broadway in The Queen of Versailles, a new musical in which she reunites with Wicked songwriter Stephen Schwartz. She stars as real-life socialite Jacqueline “Ja…

Exclusive: Siegel opens up about her relationship with Chenoweth, who stars as the titular reality star in the new musical, ‘The Queen of Versailles’

This week, The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal is here to get you out of that pre-holiday slump. From divas to dogs gracing your screen, get your fill of The Great White Way with a breakdown of the packed epi…

It’s The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the …

On Sunday, November 16, the cast and creators of NBC’s Stumble visited New York City’s St. James Theater to celebrate Kristin Chenoweth’s turn as Jackie Siegel in The Queen of Versailles on Broadway. Chec…

Jackie Siegel has spent two decades building a 90,000-square-foot replica of the Palace of Versailles in Florida. As ‘The Queen of Versailles’ becomes a Broadway musical, Caitlin Hornik joins Siegel to expl…

The Broadway Opening Night Actors' Equity Legacy Robe Ceremony honoring Andrew Kober for "The Queen of Versailles" at St. James Theatre on November 9, 2025 in New York City.

Jackie Siegel joins The Roundtable with Robert Bannon for a BroadwayWorld Exclusive that’s as grand, heartfelt, and unforgettable as her world-famous story! The “Queen of Versailles” herself opens up abou…

Watch a video of Kristin Chenoweth singing "This Time Next Year" in The Queen of Versailles on Broadway. The Michael Arden-directed musical, also starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, is currently ru…

Reunited with Chenoweth for the first time since "Wicked," Schwartz once again benefits tremendously from a genuine member of Broadway royalty who, roughly two decades ago, as the original Glinda, turned a bunc…

On Sunday, Broadway songwriter Stephen Schwartz sat down with CBS Sunday Morning for a career-spanning conversation from Godspell to Wicked to his latest show, The Queen of Versailles, now running at Broadway's…

Jackie Siegel joins The Roundtable with Robert Bannon for a BroadwayWorld Exclusive that’s as grand, heartfelt, and unforgettable as her world-famous story! The “Queen of Versailles” herself opens up abou…

By David Sheward November 17, 2025: Stephen Schwartz has the distinction of having three shows running simultaneously on New York stages. In addition to the long-running Wicked, Schwartz’s songs are on displ…

Alex Lauer joins us from Minneapolis to give us a review of the pre-Broadway production of Purple Rain. Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Compa…

By Alix Cohen Unequivocally star of the production, Kristin Chenoweth was the moving force behind this glossy, twelve million dollar disappointment. Having originated Glinda in Stephen Schwartz’s megahit Wick…

The Queen of Versailles – 13 November 2025 Opulence and decadence abound as Jackie Siegal, embodied on stage by Kristin Chenoweth, transforms Broadway’s St. James Theatre into a lavish home for expensive dr…

Designer Christian Cowan, costume shop owner Eric Winterling and more take Broadway News through the step-by-step process of making a gown for “The Queen of Versailles.”

The Queen of Versailles is officially open on Broadway at the St. James Theatre, and Broadway.com was on the red carpet to celebrate the big night. "To get to dream in this and think about scale and where we w…

Kristin Chenoweth, F. Murray Abraham, Nina White and more chat THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES on the opening night red carpet. Get tickets to THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES: https://www.broadway.com/shows/the-queen-of-versa…

Broadway’s magic returns to The Shops at Columbus Circle with the beloved Broadway Under the Stars series. Enjoy captivating performances from today’s top shows and intimate conversations with the stars, mo…

Don’t arrive at the St. James Theatre in time for the start of THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES. You’ll enjoy the...Continue Reading The post IT’S GOOD TO BE THE QUEEN appeared first on BroadwaySelect.

Forget the Palace of Versailles' Hall of Mirrors—we've got a sight even more dazzling. Before taking in these works of art, allow us to paint a picture of the scene. On November 9, after The Queen of Versaill…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/9/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 11, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click …

Watch new video footage of The Queen of Versailles on Broadway, starring Tony and Emmy Winner Kristin Chenoweth and Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham. The new footage shows the cast in action, with Chenowe…

The Queen of Versailles, starring Kristin Chenoweth, is officially open at Broadway's St. James Theatre. See photos of Chenoweth and more at the opening night curtain call! From computer engineer to Mrs. Florid…

The Queen of Versailles, starring Kristin Chenoweth, is officially open at Broadway's St. James Theatre. See photos of Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, and more backstage. From computer engineer to Mrs. Florida to bill…

New Yorkers needn't travel all the way to France to get a taste of Versailles this Broadway season. That's because The Queen of Versailles, has made its royal entrance at the St. James Theatre, led by Broadway …

St James Theatre, New York The Wicked star reunites with composer Stephen Schwartz for a flashy yet exhausting adaptation of the acclaimed documentary Like the US Capitol a century later, Versailles, that magni…

New Yorkers needn't travel all the way to France to get a taste of Versailles this Broadway season. That's because The Queen of Versailles, has made its royal entrance at the St. James Theatre, led by Broadway …

Opening night of The Queen of Versailles was a royal affair, with the cast and creatives getting glam in gowns, tiaras and plenty of pink in honor of the show. Idina Menzel came out to celebrate longtime friend…

Kristin Chenoweth is producing and starring in the new musical from Wicked songwriter Stephen Schwartz.

Watch new video footage of The Queen of Versailles on Broadway, starring Tony and Emmy Winner Kristin Chenoweth and Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham. The new footage shows the cast in action, with Chenowe…

Chenoweth reunites with Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz for the musical version of the 2012 documentary.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 8, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click H…

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And Chenoweth is a wonder, sounding a little bit country whenever Jackie is most herself, as in “Each and Every Day,” a love song to the infant Victoria; taking her high notes out for a spin in “The Royal…

Saddled with an unmemorable score by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin) and a confused book by Lindsey Ferrentino (Amy and the Orphans), Versailles glides by as bland bio-musical for much of its excessive runtim…

This A-list team has been able to create some genuinely arresting moments, but they are fleeting in a busy show that still doesn’t quite know what story it wants to tell. It’s like a house that continues to…

There is a two-hour-and-40-minute luxury-car crash happening at the St. James Theatre. If I were the litigious type, I’d be trying to figure out how to sue for whiplash. Instead, here I am staggering homeward…

Like the 90,000–square-foot, $100-million palace that the Siegels are determined to build for themselves in Orlando, The Queen of Versailles is nothing if not ambitious. But like that same palace, it also fee…

But The Queen of Versailles isn’t camp. It’s cheap tat, queasy spectacle, grubby glitz. It doesn’t burrow beneath its surface wealth to ask anything of substance. The post Kristin Chenoweth’s Return to …

The new Stephen Schwartz musical starring Kristin Chenoweth opened at the St. James Theatre November 9.

At the St. James Theatre, The Queen of Versailles opened as a star-studded, ambitious musical—with music and lyrics by the legendary Stephen Schwartz, book by Lindsey Ferrentino, and direction by Tony winner …

Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical, based on the 2012 film.

★★★★☆ Kristin Chenoweth rules in the role of a lifetime as a true believer in the American Dream The post The Queen of Versailles: Chenoweth Is Crowned As Broadway Royalty appeared first on New York S…

At the center of the Broadway musical “The Queen of Versailles” is an unfinished, 90,000-square-foot house in Florida — one of the biggest private homes in America.

In 2012, award-winning documentarian Lauren Greenfield’s film, “The Queen of Versailles,” became a Sundance darling. The documentary followed Jackie and David Siegel, billionaires and owners of Westgate R…

Theatrely's Broadway review of The Queen of Versailles on Broadway starring Kristen Chenoweth in New York City.

Jackie Siegel, the buxom pageant queen turned billionaire’s wife who was the subject of Lauren Greenfield’s 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, was present at the performance of the Broadway musical a…

If the pieces of The Queen of Versailles aren’t cohesive, Kristin Chenoweth’s performance is. The post ‘The Queen of Versailles’ Review: An Unfinished Musical About an Unfinished House appeared first on…

★★☆☆☆ Stephen Schwartz-Lindsey Ferrentino musical, Michael Arden directing, tell rich Jackie Siegel's tale The post The Queen of Versailles: Kristen Chenoweth Vehicle Breaks Down appeared first on New…

The queen's reign has begun! Tony and Emmy Award Winne Kristin Chenoweth has officially returned to Broadway in The Queen of Versailles, which is now open at the St. James Theatre. The Queen of Versailles also …

“The Queen of Versailles,” Stephen Schwartz’s latest musical, which stars Kristin Chenoweth as the real-life billionaire’s wife Jackie Siegel,  comes far closer to Jackie’s favorite childhood TV sho…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Kyoto @ Lincoln Center Theater, Out of the Box Theatrics’ production of Beau The Musical, The Queen of Versailles, Messy White Gays @ The Duke …

The Queen of Versailles is making a home on Broadway. Building excitement ahead of its official opening night at the St. James Theatre on November 9, get a first look at newly released photos from the musical. …

The Tony winner is producing and starring in the new musical, reuniting with her Wicked songwriter Stephen Schwartz.

You can now get a first look at photos of The Queen of Versailles on Broadway starring Tony and Emmy Award Winner Kristin Chenoweth. The new musical opens November 9 at the St. James Theatre. The Queen of Versa…

The Tony winner, back on Broadway in The Queen of Versailles, has been immortalized in glass in her Wicked role.

The Wicked star is reunited with composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz in the new musical at the St. James on Broadway.

David and Jackie Siegel’s 90,000-square-foot replica of the French palace is still unfinished, but it is the subject of a new Broadway musical Originally published on Architectural DigestView this story onl…

Stephen Schwartz is currently in the middle of a career resurgence: "Wicked: For Good" (adapted from his long-running Broadway musical of the same name) opens in movie theatres November 21, his newest musical "…

The Queen of Versailles. A New Musical will officially open on Broadway, at the St. James Theatre on November 9th, after several weeks of previews. The show is based on the life stories of David Siegel, the “…

Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino joins The Roundtable with Robert Bannon for an exclusive BroadwayWorld conversation about bringing The Queen of Versailles to the stage. Known for her acclaimed plays Ugly Lies the…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 10/26/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…