Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Long before she was Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, she was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical comes to The Theatre Royal, Bath running from Thursday 17 – Saturday 26 March and Steve will be giving away tickets on The Radio Bath Breakfast Show.
She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and sold her first hit, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, when she was just seventeen. By the time she reached her twenties she had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the biggest acts in rock ‘n’ roll from Aretha Franklin to The Monkees, The Drifters, to The Shirelles. But it wasn’t until her personal life began to crack that she finally managed to find her true voice.
Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history. Along the way, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation, with countless classics such as You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman, Take Good Care of my Baby, You’ve Got a Friend, So Far Away, It Might As Well Rain Until September, Up on the Roof, and Locomotion.
Beautiful stars Molly-Grace Cutler (The Worst Witch) as Carole King and Tom Milner (Holby City) as Gerry Goffin, with Seren Sandham-Davies (Crazy For You) and Jos Slovick (Once) as husband and wife song-writing duo Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. Garry Robson (White Christmas) will play music producer and talent manager Don Kirshner. Clare Greenway (Sister Act) will play Carole’s mother Genie Klein, and Dan de Cruz will join as the production’s on-stage musical director.
The cast is completed by Naomi Alade, Kemi Clarke, Chris Coxon, Amena El-Kindy, Louise Francis, Dylan Gordon-Jones, Jessica Jolleys, Sorrel Jordan, Myles Miller, Peter Mooney and Adrien Spencer.
★★★★★
“Beautiful is indeed… BEAUTIFUL! One finer-than-fine evening at the theatre. It rocks!”
WHATSONSTAGE
Thursday 17 – Saturday 26 March
Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees Thursday & Saturday 2.30pm
Tickets from £29.50
A booking fee of £1.75 per ticket applies