June 27 will be “One Fine Day”: it will mark Chilina Kennedy’s return to a Canadian stage to reprise the role of Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

Kennedy, an acclaimed musical theatre star on both sides of the border, has been playing the role of King on Broadway since March 2015 and is joining the national tour of Beautiful exclusively for its Toronto stop with Mirvish Productions, producers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing announced Monday.

It runs from June 27 to Aug. 20 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.

“It’s been two wonderful years here in New York, but I can’t tell you how excited I am to be back home for a while,” Kennedy said from New York City, out for a walk with her toddler son Henry.

She’ll continue to play King on the Great White Way until March 5.

“But there’s nothing I would love more than to share this particular story with Toronto audiences. I think they’re going to love it.”

Kennedy spent three seasons each at the Shaw Festival (Wonderful Town) and Stratford Festival (West Side Story, Evita), and first went to New York in 2012 to co-star in Jesus Christ Superstar.

She is the second performer to play King on Broadway after taking over from American actress Jessie Mueller, who nabbed the 2014 Tony Award for the part.

Kennedy isn’t the only Canadian to have starred in Beautiful.

Jake Epstein originated the role of King’s writing partner and ex-husband Gerry Goffin (and plays the part now opposite Kennedy). Kennedy’s fellow Sheridan College grad Scott Campbell also played that role.

Toronto’s Liam Tobin plays Goffin in the national tour, including the Toronto run opposite Kennedy.

Erika Olson and Ben Fankhauser will also appear as King’s and Goffin’s composer friends, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann.

“It’s funny, every single Gerry has been Canadian,” Kennedy said. “I cannot wait to work with (Tobin) again. The last big contract I did in Canada was South Pacific (for Drayton Entertainment), and he was playing Joe Cable and I was playing Nellie. I haven’t worked with him since then, so it’s going to be great to be reunited.”

Kennedy will be back in Toronto a few months before Beautiful starts its run here to “take a break, sail, go to the beach, do fun things” but will also make time for shorter commitments, like the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Best of Rodgers & Hammerstein concert on April 18.

Not that she’s eager to take time away from playing King.

“It’s such an uplifting story,” she says of Beautiful, which tracks the early stages of King’s career, ending with the release of 1971’s Tapestry. “It’s why I think I continued doing it for over two years; she’s such a great, positive, wonderful character. She’s a very glass-half-full kind of person, and it’s really added to my life going in and playing Carole every day.”

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Abby Mueller, Jessie Mueller’s sister, will take over for Kennedy on Broadway starting March 7.

Tickets for the Toronto run go on sale on Feb. 4.