San Francisco will get to preview the new show, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, from September 24 to October 30 at the Curran Theater.
The show is scheduled to start previews on Broadway on November 21 and open on January 12.
Jessie Mueller was recently named to play King. Her previous Broadway shows include On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (written by Rupert Holmes) and Nice Work If You Can Get It.
Music for the show will be pulled from the catalogs of King, both solo and with her ex-partner Gerry Goffin, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. The book was written by Douglas McGrath (Oscar nominated with Woody Allen for Bullets Over Broadway), direction by Marc Bruni and choreography by Josh Prince. Paul Blake and Sony/ATV are producing.
King said of the show "What’s so great about this for me is that musicals were a major influence on my songwriting. In fact, when Gerry and I first met, we made a bargain that I would write music for the Broadway show he wanted to write if he wrote lyrics for my rock ‘n’ roll songs. The songs took off, and the show idea never came to fruition. Now that our songs have merged with a Broadway show, we’ve come full circle."
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