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Dancing With the Stars' Mark Ballas Sets Return Date to Chicago

Ballas will return for four weeks starting on July 20.

Linda Buchwald

Linda Buchwald

| Broadway |

June 11, 2026

Mark Ballas
Mark Ballas
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Three-time Dancing With the Stars champion and Emmy-nominated choreographer Mark Ballas will return to the Broadway cast of Chicago as Billy Flynn for a limited engagement from July 20-August 16 at the Ambassador Theatre.

Ballas made his Broadway debut in 2016 as the final actor to play Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys at the August Wilson Theatre. He first played Billy Flynn in Chicago earlier this year.

The current cast of Chicago features Rachel Schur as Roxie Hart, Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Nik Walker as Billy Flynn, Jacqueline B. Arnold as Matron “Mama” Morton, Greg Hildreth as Amos Hart, and J. Workman as Mary Sunshine. The cast also includes Tia Altinay, Nicole Benoit, Zach Bravo, Austin Dunn, John Michael Fiumara, Danielle Marie Gonzalez, Chelsea James, Christopher Kelley, James T. Lane, Jenny Laroche, Marty Lawson, Joseph London, Kristen Faith Oei, Denny Paschall, Mariah Reives, Sean Samuels, Samantha Sturm, and Jeff Sullivan.

Chicago, written by Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, and John Kander and directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, is the longest-running American musical in Broadway history and the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival.

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