photography
by
nathan
johnson
Beautiful
life
ChiCago native Abby Mueller piCks
up where her tony-winning sister
Jessie left off, starring in the
national tour of Beautiful: the
Carole King MusiCal.
by thomas connors
To some, Carole King might have seemed an overnight sensa-
tion when her album Tapestry went to the top of the charts in 1971.
But the songwriter-turned-chanteuse was no new kid on the
block. She'd been hard at work in the music industry since her
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