Watch: BEAUTIFUL's Jessie Mueller Performs GILMORE GIRLS Theme

In honor of The WB's long-running dramedy GILMORE GIRLS series debut on Netflix today, Tony-winning BEAUTIFUL star JESSIE Mueller performed the show's theme song "Where You Lead", accompanied by Dillon Kondor. Watch her sing the song for BuzzFeed here!

"Where You Lead" was written in 1970 by Carole King (the star character in BEAUTIFUL) and Toni Stern. The song has been covered by Barbra Streisand, Kate Taylor, and finally King with her daughter Louise Goffin for GILMORE GIRLS.

Mueller's other Broadway credits include The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Nice Work If You Can Get It and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (for which she received a Tony nomination in 2012).

Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, GILMORE GIRLS premiered on October 5, 2000 on the WB to widespread critical acclaim and remained a tent-pole to the WB until it was canceled in its seventh season which concluded in 2007.

The show followed single mother Lorelai Gilmore (Graham) and her daughter, also named Lorelai but who prefers to be called Rory (Bledel), living in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. This is a town filled with colorful characters, which is located approximately 30 minutes from Hartford, Connecticut. Ambition, education, and work constitute part of the series' central concerns, telling Lorelai's story from pregnant teen RUNAWAY and high school dropout to co-owner and manager of the Dragonfly Inn. Rory's transition from public school to the prestigious Chilton is similarly followed, exploring her ambition to study at an Ivy League college and to become a foreign correspondent. The show's social commentary manifests most clearly in Lorelai's difficult relationship with her wealthy, appearance-obsessed parents, Emily and Richard Gilmore, and in the interactions between the students at Chilton, and later, Yale University.

Gilmore Girls is known for its fast-paced dialogue filled with pop-culture references. The show earned several award nominations, winning one Emmy Award. It was also critically acclaimed as it placed No. 32 on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list, and was listed as one of Time magazine's "All-TIME 100 TV Shows" in 2007.

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