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Beautiful — The Carole King Musical has recouped production costs after about 10 months on Broadway. Capitalized at $13 million, the biotuner-slash-jukebox show stars Tony winner Jessie Mueller in the title role at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre since it opened in January. Deadline.com learned exclusively that Mueller…

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which has been a consistent box office winner at Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre, will hit the West End in February and launch a U.S. tour in September 2015, producers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing said Thursday night. The London production will begin previews on…

Tiimes Square cash registers slowed down fractionally during Week 11 of the Broadway season, with total box office for 26 shows down about 1.7% to $25,926,516 from last week’s $26,391,544. Attendance figures matched that: down 1.8% to 237,242 from 241,351 for the week ending Sunday, according to the trade group…

He put the Bomp (In the Bomp Bomp Bomp) and found solace in the urban frenzy “Up On The Roof”: Gerry Goffin, who wrote the lyrics for some of the biggest pop music hits of the 1960s with his first wife, composer (and later singer-songrwriter) Carole King, died this morning of natural causes at his home in L.A.…

Director-choreographer Josh Prince, currently represented on Broadway with Tony best-musical nominee Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, has signed with WME. Prince previously choreographed the Shrek tuner. He’s worked with Sam Mendes’ Bridge Project and is founder and artistic director of The Broadway Dance Lab, a…