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In *The Queen of Versailles*, Jackie Siegel has it all: a wealthy husband, eight kids, and a gigantic house she can’t wait to show you. Modeled after the Palace of Versailles but situated in Florida, the gaudy home is to be the United States’ largest private residence. Based on a true story, *The Queen of Versailles* is a new musical about glitz and greed.

Kristin Chenoweth, as Jackie, has played a vapid character with a big heart before: Glinda the Good Witch in *Wicked*. Audiences familiar with her signature humor and sky-high slinging will find plenty to enjoy in this new musical, penned by Stephen Schwartz who also wrote *Wicked* and helped catapult Chenoweth to stardom. Rounding out the cast is F. Murray Abraham, as a sleazy businessman, who is known for playing a lecherous wealthy man before, as seen on *The White Lotus*. Together, Chenoweth and Abraham offer a hilarious portrait of Florida “royalty.”

## What to watch for
- Truth is stranger than fiction: The musical is based on Lauren Greenfield’s documentary *The Queen of Versailles* and the life stories of Jackie and David Siegel.
- Vogue says “Not since she belted “Popular” in a bundle of pink tulle has Kristin Chenoweth sunk her teeth into a part so uniquely suited to her talents.”
- Stephen Schwartz is a theatre icon but has also won three Oscars for his music in *Pocohontas* and *The Prince of Egypt*.
- Bookwriter Lindsey Ferrentino is an Olivier-nominated playwright who has been called “a moral compass second to none among her generation of playwrights” (Variety). She had three plays premiere in 2024 season, including The Queen of Versailles, The Fear of 13, and The Artist.

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This new musical is based on the life of Jackie Siegel, a former Mrs. Florida and wife to an ultra-rich businessman. She’s queen of Versailles — not the palace, but her own recreation of it, which is to be the US’s largest private home. But a recession looms, and Jackie’s dreams may crumble.

Get *The Queen of Versailles* tickets on New York Theatre Guide to see Kristin Chenoweth back on Broadway. The stage icon, Tony Award winner, and original Glinda in *Wicked* stars in the new musical *The Queen of Versailles* about the Florida woman who has it all — including the largest private home in the US she can’t wait to show you. Tony Award winner Michael Arden (*Parade*) directs this new musical by Stephen Schwartz (*Wicked*) and Lindsey Ferrentino (Kesselring Prize winner) that also stars Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (*The White Lotus*).

Welcome to Versailles — no, not the palace in Paris, but the real-life, under-construction home in Florida where Jackie Siegel (Chenoweth) is queen. Rising from computer engineer to Mrs. Florida to billionaire status, Jackie has it all, including a wealthy husband (Abraham), eight children, and what will soon be the world’s largest private home. She is the American Dream incarnate — but trouble looms.

As the 2008 recession hits, Siegel must confront her ideals, real needs, and non-stop shopping habit. Will she (and her $100 million house) survive the turning tides? Experience The Queen of Versailles on Broadway to find out. The Queen of Versailles explores the true cost of fame, fortune, and family.

The new musical reunites celebrated Academy Award–winning songwriter Schwartz with Tony and Emmy winner Chenoweth, two decades after they changed Broadway forever with *Wicked*. It started off in Boston where it won raves: “Chenoweth soars in a fabulous, tour-de-force performance,” Theatrely wrote. 

WBUR called it “lavish, funny, and heartwarming. The Queen of Versailles dazzles in an exciting night of theatre,” and Variety said “Schwartz’s score is the most emotionally affecting of his long career.”

Don’t miss Chenoweth back on Broadway, and all hail the queen: tickets to *The Queen of Versailles* in New York are available now.

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This new musical traces the rise of the hyperwealthy former Mrs. Florida, Jackie Siegel. She's the embodiment of the American Dream, and to show you how far she’s come, she’s inviting you into her home, Versailles, under construction as the largest private home in the US. But with a recession looming, her dreams may be shattered.

Kristin Dawn Chenoweth was born on July 24, 1968 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She is a Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress and singer known for originating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked, as well as her television roles on Pushing Daisies,&nbsp;The West Wing,&nbsp;and Glee.

Chenoweth studied at Broken Arrow Senior High School and attended Oklahoma City University, earning a bachelor's degree in musical theatre in 1990 and a master's degree in opera performance in 1992. During her years in education, she also performed in regional productions of iconic musicals such as&nbsp;Gypsy,&nbsp;The Sound of Music,&nbsp;Promises, Promises, and&nbsp;The King and I. After successfully auditioning for the 1993 Paper Mill Playhouse production of&nbsp;Animal Crackers, she moved to New York City.

At the beginning of her career on stage, Chenoweth performed in various regional productions (such as&nbsp;The Phantom of the Opera), and she made her Off-Broadway debut as Luisa in&nbsp;The Fantasticks&nbsp;in 1994. She followed this with two more Off-Broadway productions —&nbsp;Box Office of the Damned&nbsp;in 1994 and&nbsp;Scapin&nbsp;for Roundabout Theatre Company in 1997 —&nbsp;before making her Broadway debut in&nbsp;Steel Pier&nbsp;in March 1997 and receiving a&nbsp;Theatre World Award. After appearing in Lincoln Center Theater's&nbsp;A New Brain off Broadway in 1998, she would return to Broadway and originate the role of Sally in the 1999 revival of&nbsp;You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, which led to her winning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress In A Musical&nbsp;that year, alongside her first Drama Desk Award.

Chenoweth performed in her first Broadway play,&nbsp;Epic Proportions,&nbsp;in the fall of 1999 —&nbsp;and her next Broadway venture would change her life for good. Following a tryout in San Francisco, she would originate the role of Glinda in Wicked&nbsp;in October 2003. She received a 2004 Tony Award nomination for Best Actress In A Musical&nbsp;for her efforts, and the musical went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Since&nbsp;Wicked, Chenoweth has starred in Roundabout Theatre Company's 2006 Broadway revival of&nbsp;The Apple Tree, the 2010 Broadway revival of&nbsp;Promises, Promises, and Roundabout's 2015 Broadway revival of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/on-the-twentieth-century">On the Twentieth Century</a>, earning another Tony Award nomination and winning a second Drama Desk Award for the latter. In November 2016, she staged her own concert series at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, titled&nbsp;Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway,&nbsp;and over the course of her career, she has also performed in five Encores! productions at New York City Center:&nbsp;Strike up the Band&nbsp;in 1998,&nbsp;On a Clear Day You Can See Forever&nbsp;in 2000,&nbsp;The Apple Tree&nbsp;in 2005,&nbsp;Stairway to Paradise&nbsp;in 2007, and&nbsp;Music in the Air&nbsp;in 2009.

On television, Chenoweth starred in a semi-autobiographical&nbsp;NBC sitcom named Kristin&nbsp;in 2001 and starred as Marian Paroo in the 2003 television movie The Music Man,&nbsp;but her breakthrough role came in 2004, when she played media consultant Annabeth Schott in The West Wing&nbsp;on NBC.&nbsp;She remained with the series through 2006. Chenoweth's&nbsp;next big role was as Olive Snook in ABC's Pushing Daisies,&nbsp;for which she earned her first Emmy Award nomination in 2008 and won an Emmy in 2009. That same year she would also star as April Rhodes in the musical series Glee&nbsp;on Fox,&nbsp;a role that earned her two further Emmy nominations in 2010 and 2011. Since&nbsp;Glee, her most notable TV credits have included Sit Down, Shut Up&nbsp;on Fox, GCB&nbsp;on ABC, Descendants&nbsp;on the Disney Channel, Trial &amp; Error&nbsp;on NBC, and the role of Velma Von Tussle in NBC's Hairspray Live!&nbsp;in 2016.

Chenoweth has also played roles&nbsp;in a number of films, most notably Bewitched&nbsp;(2005), The Pink Panther&nbsp;(2006), R.V.: Runaway Vacation&nbsp;(2006), Rio 2&nbsp;(2014), The Boy Next Door&nbsp;(2015), The Peanuts Movie&nbsp;(2015), and Disney's Tinker Bell&nbsp;movie franchize.

As a recording artist,&nbsp;she has released a total of seven studio albums: Let Yourself Go&nbsp;in 2001, As I Am&nbsp;in 2005, A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas&nbsp;in 2008, Some Lessons Learned&nbsp;in 2011, Coming Home&nbsp;in 2014, The Art of Elegance&nbsp;in 2016, and For the Girls&nbsp;in 2019. She returned&nbsp;to Broadway in celebration of her seventh album for a limited concert series engagement entitled&nbsp;Kristin Chenoweth: For the Girls&nbsp;at the <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/nederlander-theatre">Nederlander Theatre</a> in 2019.

In 2025, Chenoweth returned to the Broadway stage as Jackie Siegel in [*The Queen of Versailles*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41950-the-queen-of-versailles-on-broadway), reprising her role from the show's 2024 Boston world premiere and reuniting with *Wicked* composer Stephen Schwartz.

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F. Murray Abraham is best known for his Oscar-winning performance as Antonio Salieri in the film *Amadeus* and Emmy-nominated performances in the TV shows *Homeland* and *The White Lotus*. Additional high-profile film credits include *All the President's Men, Scarface, Star Trek: Insurrection, Inside Llewyn Davis*, and *The Grand Budapest Hotel*.

He is also a prolific stage actor, having appeared in more than a dozen Broadway productions since making his debut in 1968's *The Man in the Glass Booth*. He earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance in 2014's *It's Only a Play*, and he won Obie Awards for his Off-Broadway performances in Anton Chekhov's *Uncle Vanya* and Shakespeare's *The Merchant of Venice*.

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White is best known for her Broadway-debut performance as Teresa in the Tony Award-winning musical *Kimberly Akimbo*, reprising the role from the show's Off-Broadway premiere with Atlantic Theatre Company. Additional major theatre credits include the pre-Broadway world premiere and Broadway transfer of the musical [*The Queen of Versailles*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41950-the-queen-of-versailles-on-broadway), playing the daughter of star [Kristin Chenoweth](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/kristin-chenoweth); and playing Olive Ostrovsky in the 2025 revival of *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee* at the Kennedy Center in D.C.

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Melody Butiu is best known for her Broadway performances as Estrella Cumpas in *Here Lies Love* on Broadway in 2023 — reprising her performance from the show's Off-Broadway premiere with [The Public Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/public-theater) 10 years earlier — Kubarikha in *Doctor Zhivago*, and Sofia Flores in [*The Queen of Versailles*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41950-the-queen-of-versailles-on-broadway), reprising her role from the musical's pre-Broadway world premiere in Boston.

Butiu appeared on screen in the movie *Easter Sunday* and in TV shows like *FBI* and *Young Sheldon*.

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Isabel Keating is a Broadway veteran known for her Tony Award-nominated, Drama Desk Award-winning, and Theatre World Award-winning performance as Judy Garland in the musical *The Boy from Oz*. She has also starred as Madame Morrible in [*Wicked*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/1-wicked-musical-tickets), Velma von Tussle in *Hairspray*, Aunt May and others in *Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark*, and Debbie in [*The Queen of Versailles*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41950-the-queen-of-versailles-on-broadway).

Additional Broadway credits include *Enchanted April, Doubt*, and *It's Only a Play*.

On TV, she has guest-starred in episodes of shows like *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* and *New Amsterdam*.

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Stephen DeRosa's Broadway credits include [*The Queen of Versailles*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41950-the-queen-of-versailles-on-broadway), [*BOOP! The Musical*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/39187-boop-the-betty-boop-musical), *Mr. Saturday Night, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, On the Town, Betrayal, The Nance, Hairspray, Twentieth Century, Henry IV, Into the Woods,* and *The Man Who Came to Dinner.* A prolific character actor, he's also been in *Little Shop of Horrors* off Broadway and in *Boardwalk Empire* on HBO.

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Greg Hildreth stars as Harry Fatt in [*Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/46994-clifford-odets-waiting-for-lefty) at [Classic Stage Company](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/classic-stage-company) off Broadway from October 15 to November 22, 2026.

Hildreth's Broadway credits include [*Chicago*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/22-chicago-tickets) as Amos Hart, *Frozen* as Olaf, [*The Queen of Versailles*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41950-the-queen-of-versailles-on-broadway), *Peter and the Starcatcher,* *Cinderella, Company, The Rose Tattoo,* and *Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.* On TV, he's been seen in *The Good Wife, The Americans, Royal Pains, Kings,* and *Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.*

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Tatum Grace Hopkins starred as Jonquil in [*The Queen of Versailles*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41950-the-queen-of-versailles-on-broadway) on Broadway at the [St. James Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/st-james-theatre) in 2025. She previously originated the role in the musical's 2024 world premiere in Boston.

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Sherie Rene Scott stars as Magenta in [*The Rocky Horror Show*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/43905-the-rocky-horror-show-on-broadway) on Broadway at [Studio 54](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/studio-54).

Scott is best known for her performances in Broadway musicals including *Dirty Rotten Scoundrels* (Tony Award nomination), *Aida* (Drama League honoree), *Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown* (Drama Desk Award nomination), *The Little Mermaid*, and [*The Queen of Versailles*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41950-the-queen-of-versailles-on-broadway) as the standby for Kristin Chenoweth. Off Broadway, she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for starring in *The Last Five Years* and starred as Audrey in [*Little Shop of Horrors*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/24608-little-shop-of-horrors-tickets).

She also co-authored and starred in the Broadway musical *Everyday Rapture*, earning Tony nominations for Best Actress in a Musical and Best Book of a Musical.

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Located in the heart of New York City, the iconic St. James Theatre is a testament to the magical allure of Broadway. Since its inception in 1927, the St. James Theatre has hosted many unforgettable Broadway hits, featuring stars from Ethel Merman to Hugh Jackman. The interior is a marvel in itself, punctuated by a royal color scheme, gold-leaf accents, and stunning chandeliers that encapsulate the golden age of Broadway. The theatre has a seating capacity of 1,710, allowing for a wide audience range without compromising the intimate, immersive theatrical experience. In its near-century history, the St. James Theatre has seen the debut of many Broadway classics, including Oklahoma!, The King and I, and The Producers, thereby solidifying its milestone status in Broadway history.

**How to Get to the Venue**
St. James Theatre is located at 246 W. 44th Street. It's easily accessible via public transport. If you're traveling by subway, you can take the 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W, or S trains to Times Square. Alternatively, buses M7, M20, M42, and M104 also stop nearby. For those who prefer driving, numerous paid parking lots are available in the vicinity.

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Designed by Warren and Wetmore, the St. James Theatre was built by producer Abraham L. Erlanger on the site of the original Sardi's restaurant (which is now located down the block). The theatre opened in 1927 as The Erlanger with the inaugural production *Merry Malones*.

The Astor family took over the venue in 1930 after Erlanger's death and renamed it the St. James Theatre in 1932.

The Shubert Organization took control in 1941 before relinquishing the building to William L. McKnight in 1957. In 1970, he passed it on to his daughter Virginia and her husband James H. Binger, the founders of theatre-ownership company Jujamcyn Theaters. The organization still operates the St. James today.

## How to get to the St. James Theatre on Broadway

The St. James Theatre is nearest to the 42nd Street - Port Authority subway stop on the A, C, and E lines. The nearest bus stops are 7th Ave/W 44th St. on the M4, M20, and M014 line; and W 43rd St./8th Ave on the M20, M104, and M34A-SBS line.

## Restaurants near the St. James Theatre

Popular restaurants that share a block with the St. James Theatre include Sardi's (American), John's (pizza/Italian), and Carmine's (Italian). Other nearby American diners and restaurants include Peachy Keen, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., and Hard Rock Cafe.

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The St. James Theatre, originally opened as The Erlanger in 1927, is a historic Broadway venue operated by Jujamcyn Theaters, and surrounded by popular restaurants.

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The historic St. James Theatre, located in New York City, has hosted iconic Broadway shows since 1927 and is easily accessible via various modes of transport.

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