NEW YORK – A musical based on the woman behind such pop standards as Its Too Late, Youve Got a Friend and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman hopes to make it to Broadway.
Producers on Friday announced plans to take Beautiful: The Carole King Musical to the Great White Way by spring 2014. The story is written by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Douglas McGrath.
King composed dozens of 1960s hits with then-husband Gerry Goffin before emerging as a recording artist in her own right. Her 25 million-selling Tapestry launched the singer-songwriter era in 1971 and became the first real blockbuster album.
The musical will chart Kings rise set to the music that made her an icon.
– Associated Press
