Another Hamilton star is leaving the Tony Award-winning hip hop musical for a new opportunity — Phillipa Soo will lead a musical stage version of the film Amélie.

The production will premiere on Broadway in 2017, but will first have a stint at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles Dec. 4, 2016 to Jan. 15, 2017, according to Broadway World.

The 26-year-old's departure comes on the heels of Lin-Manuel Miranda's announcement he'll be leaving Hamilton, which has won a Grammy and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, in July to work on other projects. Miranda created and currently plays the lead in the show, a history lesson in contemporary verse about American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

It's uncertain when Soo, who plays the character of Hamilton's wife Eliza Schuyler, will leave the high-profile role to start working on Amélie.

Soo will take over the whimsical part made famous by French actress Audrey Tatou in the 2001 film version, which was nominated for five Academy Awards. The romantic comedy centres around a woman who decides to creatively help improve the lives of others around her while struggling with her own shyness and isolation.

One person who won't be buying a ticket is Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director and writer of the original film. Jeunet reluctantly sold the rights to the story but said in a 2013 interview with a French media outlet that he "hates musicals" and "hates Broadway," calling it the "epitome of mediocrity."

He said he agreed to the deal in order to donate proceeds to Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque, an organization in France that provides heart surgeries to needy children worldwide.

"So I silenced my little problems of conscience," he told France's RTL. "It disgusts me deeply, this musical."

The stage version will be directed by Tony-winning Pam MacKinnon, who was behind the revival play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.