YOUR KIND OF MUSIC. YOUR KIND OF MUSICAL.
For five years, BEAUTIFUL, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Carole King musical, has thrilled Broadway with the inspiring true story of one woman's remarkable journey from teenage songwriter to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
From the string of pop classics she wrote for the biggest acts in music to her own life-changing, chart-busting success with Tapestry, BEAUTIFUL takes you back to where it all began- and takes you on the ride of a lifetime.
Featuring over two dozen pop classics, including "You've Got a Friend," "One Fine Day," "Up on the Roof," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," and "Natural Woman," this crowd-pleasing international phenomenon is filled with the songs you remember- and a story you'll never forget.
...as designed by Derek McLane (sets), Alejo Vietti (costumes) and Peter Kaczorowski (lighting), 'Beautiful' nods so often to Michael Bennett's original production of 'Dreamgirls' that it starts to resemble a bobblehead doll. Originality is clearly not this show's strong suit. With one very important exception. That's Ms. Mueller, a Broadway star in waiting for several years, who here steps confidently into the V.I.P. room of musical headliners...Much of what makes Ms. Mueller's performance so touching is its projection of a lack of confidence. There's a humility to Ms. Mueller's Carole, part of whom wants only to be a good Jewish wife and mother, preferably in the suburbs. She plays ego-boosting, self-effacing geisha to Mr. Epstein's philandering, mentally unstable Gerry....Modesty is not the usual stuff of Broadway showstoppers. And if 'Beautiful' never acquires the flashy momentum of 'Jersey Boys,' it may come in part from the deferential gentleness of its heroine. But when Ms. Mueller sings the show's title song - sitting at a keyboard in, of course, Carnegie for the production's finale - she delivers something you don't expect from a jukebox musical. That's a complex, revitalizing portrait of how a very familiar song came into existence, and of the real, conflicted person within the reluctant star
In recent years, Mueller has brought a shimmering soprano and finely tuned comic sensibility to a variety of quirky ingénue roles. Mueller's portrayal of King - far and away the best reason to see Beautiful, which opened Sunday at Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Theatre - is at once an affirmation of those virtues and a revelation...Beautiful seems less concerned with exploring King's story than with using it to string together familiar tunes...Granted, shows like Beautiful aren't generally sought out or valued for their nuanced drama. But more discerning fans will be grateful for the little bit of soul that Mueller and Epstein manage to bring to Broadway's latest musical nostalgia trip.
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Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Jessie Mueller |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Douglas McGrath |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Anika Larsen |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Steve Sidwell |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Brian Ronan |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Jessie Mueller |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Jessie Mueller |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Jarrod Spector |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Anika Larsen |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Douglas McGrath |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Good Productions |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Brunish & Trinchero |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Roger Faxon |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Larry Magid |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Kit Seidel |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Lawrence S. Toppall |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Fakston Productions/Mary Solomon |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | William Court Cohen |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | John Gore |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | BarLor Productions |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Matthew C. Blank |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Tim Hogue |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Joel Hyatt |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Marianne Mills |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Michael J. Moritz, Jr. |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | StylesFour Productions |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Patty Baker |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Orin Wolf |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Terry Schnuck |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Elaine Krauss |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Mike Bosner |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Richard A. Smith |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jeffrey A. Sine |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Harriet N. Leve |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Sony/ATV Music Publishing |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Paul Blake |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Steve Sidwell |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Jarrod Spector |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Anika Larsen |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Jessie Mueller |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Brian Ronan |
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