After dropping out of the race for U.S. Senate in Arizona, Kelli Ward will be taking the spotlight for a different kind of show -- musical theater.
According to Havasu News, Ward was recently cast in a production of the popular musical, "Mamma Mia!" set to open in November.
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"I've always loved doing theatre," Ward told the paper. "I kind of got bit by the theatre bug when I was in high school. We didn't have a big theatre department in West Virginia, where I was, but we did the senior class play and I was doing performances ever since in different community theatres throughout my life."
Ward, a medical doctor, was elected to the Arizona State Senate in 2012. She lost two bids for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in the state -- first to John McCain in 2014, then to Martha McSally in August.
