Name	Beth Leavel
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	1-November-1955
Place of Birth	Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

Beth Leavel is an American stage and screen actress and singer. She acted during college, appearing in productions such as Cabaret and Hello, Dolly!. Her Broadway debut was in the 1985 production of 42nd Street as a replacement for Annie. Twelve years later Leavel made her original cast debut in Crazy for You as Tess and an understudy for Polly Baker. In 1999, she played Mabel and Mrs. Bixby in The Civil War. Leavel returned to the revival of 42nd Street in 2001 as a standby for Maggie Jones and Dorothy Brock, eventually playing the latter. She has also been on Nickelodeon.

Leavel played the starring role of Beatrice Stockwell in The Drowsy Chaperone, for which she helped to create the character's backstory, she referred to as "a compilation of a lot of different women in theatre." For her work she received a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Leavel replaced Andrea Martin as Frau Blucher in the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein on July 15, 2008 and remained with the show until it closed on January 4, 2009.

She also starred in the staged reading of Vincent Crapelli's Otherwise, with Karen Ziemba and Laura Bonarrigo-Koffman. She starred as Donna Sheridan in the Broadway production of Mamma Mia!. She succeeded Carolee Carmello in the role on September 22, 2009 and left the show on October 10, 2010 after one year with the production. She was replaced by Lisa Brescia.