Abby Mueller will return to the title role of the hit musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical  beginning August 7 at the Stephen Sondheim Theater.  Current star, Melissa Benoist will play her final performance in the musical on August 4.

In addition to her prior run in Broadway's Beautiful, Abby was seen in an engagement on the show's national tour.  Her other credits include Kinky Boots, A Minister's Wife and 1776.

Abby joins a principal cast that also includes Evan Todd as Gerry Goffin, Kara Lindsay as Cynthia Weil, Ben Jacoby as Barry Mann, Paul Anthony Stewart as Don Kirshner and Nancy Opel as Genie Klein. Beautiful features a book by Douglas McGrath, direction by Marc Bruni and choreography by Josh Prince.