I hope they find a way to fictionalize her life so that it's theatrically interesting - she was rich and famous before she was 20, and (according to biographies), never had much of a struggle or a particularly hard time with life or success.
Good bio-musicals (and they're rare) show that you usually need to invent a good story only thinly related to the facts; real lives are rarely entertaining enough.
I think the movie "Grace of My Heart" did a fairly decent job of trying to map out Carole King's life. Of course, there's so much there, they could only hit the highlights.
I'm afraid this might become a jukebox musical rather than an honest look at a very interesting artist.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Mister Matt, that title is actually not active in MTI's catalog or licensed any longer. I could not tell you if the original producers/creators took it somewhere else or simply stopped licensing it, but I do know with full certainty that it's not licensed by MTI anymore.
Neither Vanessa Ray nor Patti Murin will be involved in the forthcoming production.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
I love the title. "Beautiful" is the one song which best encapsulates Carole's very positive outlook on life. I hope Lea Michelle plays Carole. She definitely would be good for the box office.