Shows · Beautiful: The Carole King Musical · Stephen Sondheim Theatre, 2014
The run closed October 27, 2019
- Opened
- January 12, 2014
- Closed
- October 27, 2019
- Performances
- 2,418
- Previews
- Unknown
- Theatre
- Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 5th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical 2 more that season
| 2015 | Aldwych Theatre Original | |
| 2017 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it60 named
Ashley Blanchet
Josh Davis
Alysha Deslorieux
Kevin Duda
Carly Hughes
Sara King
Rebecca Lachance
Douglas Lyons
Arbender J Robinson
Melissa Benoist
Scott J Campbell
Suzanne Grodner
Laurel Harris
Paul Anthony Stewart
Evan Todd
Gisela Adisa
Doug Carpenter
Kennedy Caughell
Britney Coleman
Rebecca E Covington
J Daughtry
Ashley de la Rosa
John Michael Dias
Sidney DuPont
Brittney Johnson
Julia Knitel
Tamika Lawrence
Mike Longo
Stephanie Martignetti
Chelsea Packard
Elena Ricardo
Noah J. Ricketts
Nicholas Ryan
Nathan Scherich
Housso Semon
Caliaf St Aubyn
Yasmeen Sulieman
Nasia Thomas
Ryan Vona
DeLaney Westfall
Alan Wiggins
Dashaun Young
24 of these 60 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Marc Bruni
- Choreographer
- Josh Prince
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is a jukebox musical with a book by Douglas McGrath that tells the story of the early life and career of Carole King, using songs that she wrote, often together with Gerry Goffin, and other contemporary songs by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Phil Spector and others. The original production of Beautiful received its world premiere at the Curran Theatre, San Francisco, in October 2013, with direction by Marc Bruni and choreography by Josh Prince, and starring Jessie Mueller in a Tony Award-winning performance as Carole King and Jake Epstein as Gerry Goffin. It made its Broadway debut at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in January 2014. A West End production starring…
- Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is an example of a biographical composer-musical that incorporates songs written by the composer and uses them as plot or presentational songs. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 228
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at all.
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