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 […]
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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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
