First look: Beautiful – The Carole King Musical tour
Here’s a first look at the upcoming new tour of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical.
The Curve, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Mayflower Theatre Southampton co-production will open at Leicester’s Curve on 28 February before touring the UK.
The company will be led by Molly-Grace Cutler (The Worst Witch, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, We’ll Live and Die in these Towns) as Carole King.
Tom Milner (Holby City, Waterloo Road) will play Gerry Goffin, Carole’s former husband and collaborator. Seren Sandham-Davies (Crazy For You, Brassed Off) and Jos Slovick, who performed in the original West End production of Once, will play husband and wife song-writing duo Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann.
Further casting includes Garry Robson as music producer and talent manager Don Kirshner and Claire Greenway as Carole’s mother Genie Klein while 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, Adrien Spencer and Kevin Yates.
After its run in Leicester, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical will tour to Theatre Royal Bath (17 – 26 March), Theatre Royal Brighton (29 March – 2 April), Festival Theatre Edinburgh (5 – 9 April), Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (12 – 16 April), Newcastle Theatre Royal (19 – 23 April), Orchard Theatre Dartford (26 – 30 April), Malvern Theatres (3 – 7 May), Cambridge Arts Theatre (10 – 21 May) and New Theatre, Cardiff (24 – 28 May).
Based on the story of Carole King’s remarkable rise from singer/songwriter to chart-topping music legend, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical is written by Douglas McGrath, with songs by Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
The new production is directed by Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster with choreography from Leah Hill, orchestrations by Steve Sidwell, musical supervision by Sarah Travis.
The creative team also includes associate choreographer Tarik Frimpong, set designer Frankie Bradshaw, costume designer Edd Lindley, lighting designer Ben Cracknell, sound designer Tom Marshall, associate director Jennifer Lane Baker and casting director Kay Magson CDG.
