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Complete Cast and Creative Team Announced for “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”

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FOR RELEASE ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013

COMPLETE CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
ANNOUNCED FOR
“ B E A U T I F U L
T H E   C A R O L E   K I N G   M U S I C A L ”

JAKE EPSTEIN IS ‘GERRY GOFFIN’
ANIKA LARSEN IS ‘CYNTHIA WEIL’
JARROD SPECTOR IS ‘BARRY MANN’

WORLD PREMIERE
AT SAN FRANCISCO’S
SHN CURRAN THEATRE
PRIOR TO BROADWAY

New York, NY – Producers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing announced today the full cast and creative team for the highly anticipated new musical Beautiful—The Carole King Musical, about the early life and career of the legendary and groundbreaking singer/songwriter. The show will begin previews on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 West 43rd Street) on Thursday, November 21, 2013, with an official opening night set for Sunday, January 12, 2014, following its World Premiere this fall at San Francisco’s SHN Curran Theatre (September 24 – October 20, 2013).

Joining previously announced Tony® Award nominee Jessie Mueller as Carole King, the cast of Beautiful includes Jake Epstein as ‘Gerry Goffin’, Anika Larsen as ‘Cynthia Weil’, Jarrod Spector as ‘Barry Mann’, Jeb Brown as ‘Don Kirshner’, Liz Larsen as ‘Genie Klein’, and an ensemble that includes Ashley Blanchet, E. Clayton Cornelious, Joshua Davis, Alysha Deslorieux, Kevin Duda, Carly Hughes, Sara King, Rebecca LaChance, Douglas Lyons, Chris Peluso, Gabrielle Reid, Arbender Robinson, Rashidra Scott, Sara Shepard, Antoine L. Smith and Melvin Tunstall.

With a book by playwright and Academy® Award-nominated filmmaker Douglas McGrath, direction by Marc Bruni and choreography by Josh Prince, Beautiful features a stunning array of beloved songs written by Gerry Goffin/Carole King and Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil.

The creative team also includes Derek McLane (Set Design), Alejo Vietti (Costume Design), Peter Kaczorowski (Lighting Design), Brian Ronan (Sound Design), Charles G. LaPointe (Wig and Hair Design), Steve Sidwell (Orchestrations and Music Arrangements), Jason Howland (Music Supervision), John Miller (Music Coordination) and Stephen Kopel (Casting).

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Long before she was Carole King, chart-topping music legend, she was Carol Klein, Brooklyn girl with passion and chutzpah. She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the biggest acts in rock ‘n’ roll.  But it wasn’t until her personal life began to crack that she finally managed to find her true voice.  Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history.   Along the way, she made more than beautiful music, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation.

Tickets for the San Francisco World Premiere go on sale this Friday, August 16th, and tickets for the Broadway Premiere of Beautiful will go on-sale in the coming weeks.  For more information, visit www.beautifulonbroadway.com.

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