In 2007, Harris returned to Broadway and joined the cast of the musical "Cry-Baby", based on the John Waters film of the same name. The show previewed on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on March 15, 2008 and opened on April 24. The production was nominated for Best Musical at the 2008 Tony Awards and later closed on June 22, 2008. She returned to Broadway as the Evil Stepmother in "Cinderella" in 2013. In 2015, Harris took on the role as the mother of the groom-to-be (who secretly wishes that her son was gay) in the musical comedy "It Shoulda Been You", sparring with Tyne Daly who played the mother of the bride-to-be. Harris played the role of Fanny, head of the Cavendish family, in the musical "The Royal Family of Broadway" at the Barrington Stage Company, Massachusetts, in June 2018 — July 2018.