CAROLE KING Performs at In-Home Fundraiser for MA Senator

The New York Post's Page Six reports that music - and now Broadway - legend Carole King is using her talent to promote politics. In a fundraiser for Ed Markey, junior senator of Massachusetts, King performed for donors in the home of Lois Robbins.

Robbins hosted the event in her Upper East Side home this past Friday night. Guests included: Michael Douglas, Patricia Duff, Kenneth Cole and Maria Cuomo Cole, Leonard Lauder, Kiki Kennedy, Richard and Marcia Mishaan and Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley.

Robbins is currently working on Ithica, a film directed by Meg Ryan and produced by her many time co-star Tom Hanks.

King has been in the news quite a lot lately, thanks in part to Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, the Broadway show that is a musical adaptation of her life. The new musical about the early life and career of the legendary and groundbreaking singer/songwriter opened Jan. 12, at the Sondheim Theatre on Broadway.

Tony Award-nominee Jessie Mueller stars as 'Carole King'; she's joined by Jake Epstein as 'Gerry Goffin', Anika Larsen as 'Cynthia Weil', Jarrod Spector as 'Barry Mann', Jeb Brown as 'Don Kirshner', Liz Larsen as 'Genie Klein', and an ensemble that includes 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.??With a book by playwright and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Douglas McGrath, direction by Marc Bruni and choreography by Josh Prince, Beautiful features a stunning array of beloved songs written by Gerry Goffin/Carole King and Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil.

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