Gerry Goffin News

Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group continues its 20th-anniversary season with the Broadway hit BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL, which opens at Meralco Theatre in Pasig City on June 14.

Centered around Carole King's life and biography, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is an appropriate cap to The American Theatre Guild's 2018-2019 season. This first national tour is filled with well-rounded, talented performers from all over the United States, including members who have been a part of the company for three years or more. Though the script itself for this pseudo jukebox musical may be a bit lacking compared to favored classics such as Cinderella, seen earlier in the season, the individual vocal and acting abilities are worth paying full ticket price.

Beautiful was the first show I saw on my own on Broadway.  Carole King's music has become part of my soundtrack of my life as I've grown older.  I remember my seventh grade art teacher would always play You've Got a Friend at the end of every class-which kind of drove me crazy, but as time has gone on I recognize how beautiful, simple, and poignant that song can be.  Carole King forged a path for female songwriters in America. If I hadn't seen this show, I wouldn't have known! I knew I had to bring my family to see the touring production at Durham Performing Arts Center for Mother's Day.

n the realm of jukebox bio-musicals, BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL is probably better than most. And a lot of that has to do with King's rich repertoire of music, not to mention the fact that her story runs parallel to the story of the songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Their collective mark on pop music is undeniable. King began her songwriting career at the age of 16 in the hallowed halls of an office building located at 1650 Broadway, a music warehouse of sorts located just blocks away from the infamous Brill Building. In 2013, Weil told The New Yorker that the rents were cheaper at 1650 Broadway than in the Brill Building and newer publishers, like Aldon Music, had their offices there. Weil describes the Aldon Music office as having four cubicles wherein she and her writing/life partner Mann, along with King and her writing partner and husband at the time Jerry Goffin, all worked. The foursome became friends and even vacationed together. But in 1968, King moved from New York to Los Angeles, divorced Goffin, and began her solo career. Her solo album Tapestry sold over 25-million copies worldwide, won four Grammy Awards, and has been hailed as one of top albums of all time. Shortly after Tapestry was released in 1971, King played Carnegie Hall, which is where the musical BEAUTIFUL begins and ends.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton will be the next Carole King in Broadway's Beautiful. Carlton takes over the role from Chilina Kennedy, who departs the production on June 26.

Jake Epstein and Derrick Chua are thrilled to announce the World Premiere of Epstein's autobiographical tale Boy Falls From The Sky: Jake Epstein Live at Supermarket, playing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, July 3 - 14, 2019. Performance venue Supermarket is a vibrant restaurant and bar, located in the heart of Kensington Market at 268 Augusta Avenue (just south of College Street), Toronto.

Season tickets for the 2019-2020 season of Broadway in Akron at E.J. Thomas Hall are now available! Packages range from $40 - $295 for all four shows and include an optional payment plan. The only way to guarantee your seats at the absolute lowest price is to become a season ticket holder.

Following a highly successful West End run/a run of two and a half years in the West End and a sell-out tour in 2017/18, Paul Blake, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Mike Bosner in association with Michael Harrison are delighted to announce that the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning BEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL will hit the road again and tour throughout the UK and Ireland in 2020, opening at the Churchill Theatre Bromley on 11 January. Tour schedule below with further venues and casting to be announced soon. beautifulmusical.co.uk

The University of Illinois Springfield Performing Arts Center announces their 2019-2020 Madden Broadway Series. This series features 5 national touring productions that are new to the Sangamon Auditorium stage.

Tomorrow is going to be one fine day because Chilina Kennedy, who's playing Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in Toronto, is taking over BroadwayWorld's Instagram Story! Make sure to tune in to go behind-the-scenes of the hit musical for a two-show day at the Princess of Wales Theatre. It's sure to be some kind of wonderful that you won't want to miss!

Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group, which recently opened its 20th-anniversary season with a critically-acclaimed run of ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES, has announced the full cast of its next production, the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning musical BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL, which continues to run on Broadway and on US National Tour.

BEAUTIFUL rolls out of town, but USC and Trustus raise the curtain on their next shows!

Workshop closes OTHER DESERT CITIES and BEAUTIFUL rolls into town for a weeklong stay at the Koger Center!

The 2019-2020 Broadway season at the Peace Center is the biggest yet, with a record 11 shows, including the 2018 Tony Award winners for Best Musical (The Band's Visit) and Best Revival of a Musical (Once on This Island).

Chilina Kennedy will return to her hometown of Toronto to reprise her Broadway role in the Tony & Grammy Award-winning Broadway hit BEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL. Kennedy, will join the first national tour in this exclusive encore engagement for Toronto - April 9 - May 5, 2019 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.

FEEL THE EARTH MOVE: A Carole King TRIBUTE is playing in Jackson, Mississippi on March 18th, 2019.

Beginning today, March 14, Kara Lindsay will return to the company of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical as Cynthia Weil. She takes over the role from Jessica Keenan Wynn, who played her final performance on March 13.

You don't even have go in a fan to enjoy Beautiful: The Carole King Musical but once you are at The Fabulous Fox and are reminded of all one woman has accomplished in a lifetime of singer/songwriting, you just may go out humming her entire body of work.

ASU Gammage has announced its 2019-2020 Desert Financial Broadway Across America -Arizona season. Tempe audiences will come together for a monumental season complete with an electric mix of the hottest shows on Broadway, Valley premieres, Tony Award®-winning shows and the return of a few audience favorites.

FEEL THE EARTH MOVE: A Carole King TRIBUTE is playing in Jackson, Mississippi on March 18th, 2019.