Beautiful: The Carole King Musical continues at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in repertory until 28 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Oh, wow… Kirsty Findlay is absolutely wonderful in the title role in this extraordinary songbook show.
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Tributes are paid to Chris Peluso who has died aged 40
The international theatre world has been in mourning following the sudden death of Broadway and West End star Chris Peluso.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical – Curve Leicester and Touring
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical continues at Curve Leicester until 12 March 2022, and then tours until 15 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The path of the jukebox musical is so often strewn with bad decisions, but sometimes a show comes along which vindicates its entire genre. Beautiful is a […]
Five Questions With: Molly-Grace Cutler
MOLLY-GRACE CUTLER (The Worst Witch, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, We’ll Live and Die in these Towns) plays singer/songwriter Carole King in the major new touring production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical in 2022, opening this week at Leicester Curve. Based on the early life and career of legendary singer/songwriter Carole King, Beautiful – The Carole […]
Musical Theatre 2022 Preview – all you need to know
With Covid-related delays and cancellations still plaguing theatre productions, we know it is impossible to predict whether all the shows listed below will go ahead, but we will continue to keep the faith and support all the incredible creatives bringing us these wonderful musical theatre openings in 2022 – in the West End, on the London […]
Cast for new touring production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Molly-Grace Cutler (The Worst Witch) will play singer/songwriter Carole King in a major new touring production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical in 2022. Co-produced by Leicester Curve, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, the cast of actor/musicians will also include Tom Milner (American Idiot, UK tour) as King’s former husband […]
New UK tour of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical to open at Curve Leicester
Curve, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Mayflower Theatre Southampton have announced plans to launch a new UK tour of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, opening at Curve in February 2022. Directed by Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster (Sunset Boulevard, West Side Story), Beautiful will open at Curve […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – Churchill Theatre, Bromley and Touring
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical continues at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley until 18 January and then tours until 29 August 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Beautiful – The Carole King Musical tells the true, inspiring story of Carole King, an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent, and her remarkable […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff and Touring
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical continues at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff until 4 November and then tours until 23 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Now two months into its UK tour, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical tells an unusual, although not unique, story, for the singer/songwriter […]
Interview – Cassidy Janson teams up with Leading Ladies Amber Riley and Beverley Knight for new album
West End actress and singer CASSIDY JANSON has teamed up with Amber Riley and Beverley Knight to form Leading Ladies. This one-of-a-kind group of stage powerhouses has recorded an album called Songs From the Stage which features numbers from Beautiful, Dreamgirls, Memphis, Rent, Funny Girl and many more. Cassidy recently wrapped up her run as Carole King in the award-winning […]
Interview – Gary Trainor chats about his ‘unique spin’ on School of Rock’s Dewey
GARY TRAINOR has been with the London production of School of Rock since it opened, initially playing the alternate Dewey Finn, but now he heads the cast full-time. He is also a veteran of several West End productions. Here he talks about his rising career… Are you from a showbusiness family and, if not, what […]
Bronté Barbé to play title role in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical tour
Bronté Barbé will play Carole King in the UK and Ireland tour of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Bronté will be joined by Kane Oliver Parry as King’s husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin, Amy Ellen Richardson as Cynthia Weil, Matthew Gonsalves as Barry Mann, Carol Royle as […]
Carole King surprises West End cast of Beautiful as show celebrates second birthday
Music legend Carole King delighted cast and audience last night when she made a second visit to the West End production of Beautiful. She was greeted by a standing ovation when she joined the cast for the curtain call at the end of the performance. And at the same time there was extra cause for […]
Carole King musical Beautiful to tour the UK in 2017
The multi award-winning Beautiful – The Carole King Musical is to begin a tour of the UK in September next year. The announcement came this week just days after new casting details for the London production were revealed. In a statement the producers said: “We are truly thrilled that Beautiful will be touring the UK […]
Beautiful musical – Matthew Seadon-Young and Barbara Drennan join cast
Matthew Seadon-Young and Barbara Drennan will join the West End cast of the multi award-winning Beautiful – The Carole King Musical on 28 November. Seadon-Young, who was last seen playing Tony, Billy’s brother in Billy Elliot at the Victoria Palace Theatre, will take over the role of King’s husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin, while Drennan […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – booking extended
A further 200,000 tickets have been released for Beautiful – The Carole King Musical with booking at the Aldwych Theatre extended to 22 July 2017. The Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning show opened in the West End in February 2015 when Carole King surprised the audience by joining the cast at the curtain call to sing ‘You’ve Got A Friend’. In February […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – West End Run extended
The producers of the multi award-winning Beautiful – The Carole King Musical have announced the show will be extending booking in the West End until 18 February 2017. The announcement came the morning after a star-studded gathering at the Aldwych Theatre celebrating the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award winning show’s first birthday in London’s West […]
Musical Theatre 2015 – a reflection – what was your favourite?
Musical Theatre Review reflects on an incredibly busy year of theatre – in the West End, on the London Fringe, across the UK and in New York – and pick four shows from each month that topped the FOUR and FIVE star ratings with our contributors. The results may surprise you… JANUARY Whistle Down the Wind continues […]
Evening Standard Theatre Awards – Imelda Staunton, Katie Brayben, Rosalie Craig and Killian Donnelly among nominees
The London Evening Standard has announced the shortlist for its 61st Theatre Awards, in partnership with The Ivy. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony presented by Rob Brydon, and co-hosted by Evgeny Lebedev, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, at the Old Vic on Sunday 22 November. This year for the first time […]
Voting opens for Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical
Voting has opened for the Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical, part of this year’s London Evening Standards Awards at the Old Vic Theatre on 22 November. Listeners have until midnight on 25 October to cast their vote for one of the five shortlisted shows after Elaine Paige opened the voting on her weekly […]
Cassidy Janson to take over title role in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Cassidy Janson will join the West End production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical to play the title role from 30 November 2015. Also joining the cast will be Diane Keen as Genie Klein, King’s mother. Alan Morrissey will continue as King’s husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin as well as Lorna Want as songwriter Cynthia Weil, Ian McIntosh as songwriter Barry Mann and Gary Trainor as […]
Interview – look what happened to Rebecca LaChance in Mack & Mabel at Chichester
After an extensive search, American actress REBECCA LaCHANCE was cast as Mabel Normand alongside Michael Ball’s Mack Sennett in Chichester’s summer musical, Mack and Mabel, which opens tonight at the Festival Theatre (playing until 5 September, and then touring across the UK and Ireland). Based on the true romance between Hollywood legends Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, this musical comedy (book […]
Olivier Awards 2015 – our Red Carpet gallery
Have a look at our splendid gallery of pictures taken on Sunday 12 April by our photographer Phillip Cowndley at the Olivier Awards 2015 with MasterCard, the most prestigious event in the UK theatrical calendar, held at London’s Royal Opera House. The full list of winners is available at www.olivierawards.com. Hosted by acclaimed actor and comedian […]
Sunny Afternoon big winner at Olivier Awards 2015
The Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden was the setting for the 39th Laurence Olivier Awards. The star-studded event was hosted by Lenny Henry and sponsored by MasterCard, who rolled out the red carpet to welcome the great and the good from the West End theatre scene. The ceremony opened with music from Katie […]
West End stars line up for The Curtain Up Show Olivier Awards special at The Theatre Cafe
Olivier Award winner Stephen Ashfield, currently starring in The Book of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre, and Miss Saigon stars Jon Jon Briones and Eva Noblezada, complete the line-up of guests on The Curtain Up Show’s Olivier Awards special, which broadcasts live on Resonance 104.4 FM from The Theatre Cafe on Shaftesbury Avenue this Friday (10 April) from […]
Olivier Awards 2015 – Memphis the Musical and Beautiful lead nominations
New productions Memphis the Musical and Beautiful – The Carole King Musical lead the nominations for individual productions, receiving nine and eight nods respectively, at the Olivier Awards 2015 with MasterCard. The nominations were announced today (Monday 9 March) by actors James McAvoy and Lesley Manville. Among the shows’ nominations are those for the MasterCard Best New Musical Award, where the […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – Aldwych Theatre
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical continues at the Aldwych Theatre, London, currently booking until 13 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There are jukebox musicals, and then there are jukebox musicals. Some, like Mamma Mia!, wrap up songs from a common source with a story that, while it may not hold up on its […]
Carole King joins Beautiful cast for opening night
There were some special guests at the opening night of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical at London’s Aldwych Theatre and they included legendary singer/songwriter Carole King herself, as well as songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Beautiful – The Carole King Musical has a book by Douglas McGrath with words and music by Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and is directed by Marc Bruni. Katie Brayben plays the title role […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – first look at production images
Here’s a first look at production images from Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Katie Brayben plays the title role of Carole King, with Alan Morrissey as King’s husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin, Lorna Want as songwriter Cynthia Weil, Ian McIntosh as songwriter Barry Mann, Glynis Barber as Genie Klein, King’s mother, and Gary Trainor as music publisher and producer Don Kirshner. The show is currently in […]
Musical Theatre 2015 Preview – all you need to know
You can’t get more comprehensive than this, here’s a preview of all the 2015 musical theatre openings we know about so far in the West End, on the London Fringe and across the UK. JANUARY: Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Playhouse, London The UK premiere of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s […]
First look at Katie Brayben as Carole King in Beautiful
Here’s a first look at Katie Brayben playing the title role of Carole King in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Alan Morrissey is King’s husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin, with Lorna Want as Cynthia Weil, Ian McIntosh as Barry Mann, Glynis Barber as Genie Klein, King’s mother, and Gary Trainor as music publisher and producer Don Kirshner. London previews begin at the Aldwych Theatre on […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – full casting revealed
Joining Katie Brayben playing the title role in the West End production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical is Ian McIntosh as songwriter Barry Mann. As previously announced the leading cast members also include Alan Morrissey as King’s husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin, Lorna Want as songwriter Cynthia Weil, Glynis Barber as Genie […]
Katie Brayben and Alan Morrissey cast in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Katie Brayben will play the title role in the West End production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical opening at the Aldwych Theatre in February next year. Alan Morrissey will play King’s husband and song-writing partner Gerry Goffin, with Lorna Want as songwriter Cynthia Weil, Glynis Barber as Genie Klein, King’s mother, and Gary Trainor as music publisher and producer Don Kirshner. London previews begin on […]
Gentleman’s Guide wins big at Drama Desk Awards
Persistence is paying off for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. The Broadway musical, which has already garnered ten Tony Award nominations (the Tony winners will be announced on 8 June), has now added seven Drama Desk Awards to its laurels. The show opened in the fall and had been struggling with weak ticket sales […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – New York
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical continues at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, New York, in an open-ended run. According to the programme for Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, the songwriter has had more than 400 of her compositions recorded by more than 1,000 artists, generating 100 hit singles. And many of those tunes, which […]
