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Beautiful — The Carole King Musical to Offer Actors Fund Benefit Performance

Tony nominee Jessie Mueller leads the cast with Jake Epstein, Anika Larsen, and Jarrod Spector.

| New York City |

April 2, 2014

Beautiful principal cast members Jeb Brown, Anika Larsen, Jarrod Spector, Jessie Mueller, Jake Epstein, and Liz Larsen will donate their time for a special benefit performance on April 27. — *Beautiful* principal cast members Jeb Brown, Anika Larsen, Jarrod Spector, Jessie Mueller, Jake Epstein, and Liz Larsen will donate their time for a special benefit performance on April 27.
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Beautiful — The Carole King Musical has announced that it will offer a special added performance to benefit The Actors Fund on April 27 at 8pm at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. The company of Beautiful will donate its time for the performance, whose audience will include cast members from current Broadway shows and other areas of the entertainment community. All proceeds will go to The Actors Fund, which helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment.

Beautiful, which chronicles the early life and career of the legendary and groundbreaking singer/songwriter Carole King, features a book by Douglas McGrath. The musical's songs are written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, including "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "One Fine Day," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," and more.

Tony nominee Jessie Mueller stars as King in a cast that includes Jake Epstein, Anika Larsen, Jarrod Spector, Jeb Brown, and Liz Larsen, as well as Ashley Blanchet, E. Clayton Cornelious, Joshua Davis, Alysha Deslorieux, Kevin Duda, James Harkness, Carly Hughes, Sara King, Rebecca LaChance, Douglas Lyons, Chris Peluso, Gabrielle Reid, Rashidra Scott, Sara Sheperd, Yasmeen Sulieman, Daniel Torres, Melvin Tunstall, and Alan Wiggins.

For tickets to Beautiful, click here.