Scott J. Campbell & Paul Anthony Stewart Join Cast of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway

It’s “one fine day” for Scott J. Campbell and Paul Anthony Stewart, who begin performances as Gerry Goffin and Don Kirshner, respectively, in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on September 23. Campbell takes over for original star Jake Epstein and Stewart replaces Jeb Brown in the jukebox tuner at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.

Campbell made his Broadway debut as a swing in Jersey Boys. He also appeared in the national tour of American Idiot. Stewart, who starred in the soap opera Guiding Light, appeared on Broadway previously in The People in the Picture, Fiddler on the Roof and Cyrano – The Musical. The two join a cast that includes Tony winner Jessie Mueller as Carole King, Anika Larsen as Cynthia Weil, Jarrod Spector as Barry Mann and Liz Larsen as Genie Klein.

Featuring songs written by King, Goffin, Mann and Weil and a book by Douglas McGrath, Beautiful tells the story of King from her early days as a Brooklyn teenager (named Carol Klein) struggling to enter the record business to her years spent as a chart-topping music legend. The production is directed by Marc Bruni.