Teri Hatcher Shares Her Biggest Career Regret, Hopes She'll Get a Second 'Chance' (Exclusive)

Meredith Wilshere, Aliza SesslerSat, April 25, 2026 at 3:59 PM UTC

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Teri Hatcher reveals her biggest career regret is turning down a chance to perform on Broadway in Cabaret

She chose not to join the Broadway production in the late '90s to focus on her young daughter after a seven-month tour

Hatcher attended The Balusters opening night to support her former Desperate Housewives costar, Ricardo Chavira

Teri Hatcher doesn't have many regrets in life, but there is one career move she wishes she could take back.

While attending the opening night of The Balusters on Broadway to support her Desperate Housewives costar Ricardo Chavira, Hatcher, 61, tells PEOPLE she would love to be in a Broadway show one day after passing up the opportunity earlier in her career.

“I was thinking that I've always said my biggest regret, because I don't believe in regret, but after I originated the tour of Sally Bowles in Cabaret from the Rob Marshall, Sam Mendes production back in like 1999... I did that in four cities over seven months with Norbert Leo Butz," Hatcher shares at the April 21 event.

Teri Hatcher attends the amfAR gala Cannes 2025Credit: Lionel Hahn/Getty

“It was an amazing experience," she continues. "At the end of that, they asked me to come to Broadway, and I didn't, because I had a young toddler. I'd already done it for seven months, and I was exhausted. But I look back and I think that was my chance to be on Broadway."

"So maybe I'll get another one," she adds. "I hope so."

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The Sam Mendes revival of Cabaret opened on Broadway on March 19, 1998, at the Kit Kat Klub. The Roundabout revival starred Alan Cumming as the Emcee, Mary Louise Wilson as Fraulein Schneider and Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles.

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Both Cumming and Richardson won the Tony Award in 1998 for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical, respectively.

Ricardo Chavira and Marcea DietzelCredit: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

While Hatcher is still hoping for the chance to take the Broadway stage, she was there to support Chavira's big debut.

While she notes that Desperate Housewives was “so long ago and such a blur,” she “really treasures that we've kept in touch and stayed friends.”

The pair's fellow Desperate Housewives alum Mark Moses was also there to celebrate.

Teri Hatcher, Ricardo Chavira and Mark Moses pose at the 'Balusters' after party on April 21, 2026Credit: Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic

“I'm so excited to get to be here tonight because it's a version of a second act, having your Broadway debut at 54 years old with a play written by a Pulitzer Prize winner. It's really amazing,” Hatcher says of Chavira's accomplishment.

The Balusters — written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon — is a raucous play about a very passionate neighborhood association that finds itself in a "neighbor-versus-neighbor battle royale" over trivial issues like trash can protocol, historically inaccurate porch railings and where to put a stop sign.

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