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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Singer-songwriter and actress Ann Hampton Callaway chats about life during lockdown & returning to the joy of live music and theatre
Chicago-born singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY was recently in London performing her show The Judy Garland Songbook at The Pheasantry and Cinematic Serenade at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho. In high school, Ann performed in musicals and after graduation studied acting at the University of Illinois […]
Standards and Ann-dards: Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry,
Standards and Ann-dards: Ann Hampton Callaway at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When in the early 1990s the Prince of New York cabaret Steve Ross instructed me “on no account to miss” an exciting new name on the Manhattan beat when she debuted at Pizza on the Park. Little did […]
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 […]
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 – 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 […]
Feminine Persuasion – Ann Hampton Callaway Celebrates Women Songwriters – Crazy Coqs
Feminine Persuasion – Ann Hampton Callaway Celebrates Women Songwriters continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 24 April, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There aren’t enough stars in the galaxy adequately to convey the extraordinary pleasure of spending 90 minutes in the company of this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical arrives in London next year
The West End production of the two-time Tony Award-winning Beautiful – The Carole King Musical will open at the Aldwych Theatre in February next year. Based on the early life and career of legendary singer/songwriter Carole King, Beautiful 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. Public booking for Beautiful – […]
Ann Hampton Callaway – Crazy Coqs
Ann Hampton Callaway: Diva Power continues at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 12 April. It’s been 13 years since the multi-talented American singer-songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway last aired her amazing vocal pyrotechnics and wicked sense of fun in London town and that’s far, far too long. She claims she hasn’t been back since 2001 “because […]
