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Beautiful, Starring Jessie Mueller as Carole King, Opens on Broadway Tonight

Jake Epstein, Jarrod Spector, Anika Larsen, Liz Larsen, and Jeb Brown also light up the stage in this new bio-musical.

Douglas McGrath's Beautiful — The Carole King Musical opens on Broadway tonight, January 12, at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. The production stars Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller as the Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and features music by King as well as Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil. Marc Bruni directs.

Beautiful explores King's early life and career, from her Brooklyn upbringing (when she was still called Carol Klein) to her great success in the music industry with fellow writers and friends Weil and Mann and husband Goffin.

See Mueller and the rest of the cast channel these living legends in the photos below:

For more information and tickets to Beautiful — The Carole King Musical, click here.

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