OPAS PRESENTS Beautiful: The Carole King Musical by Steven Jordan
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hile most musicals tend either to por tray complete flights of fancy or to sensationalize historical events, a few notable productions tend to stay grounded in reality. Taking place on March 17 and 18, OPAS’ next show, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” is the latter, profiling the life and struggles of one of the 20th centur y ’s most prolific per formers.
The musical features King’s music sprinkled throughout the inspiring stor y of King’s life, from her struggles in marriage, all the way, as the OPAS website states, to her becoming “one of the most successful solo acts in popular music histor y.” King is truthfully hailed as having written the “soundtrack to a generation,” and her greatest hits list is even taller than she is at 5 '4". The musical features a Carole K ing was a famous songwriter in the 1960s, number of these hits, such as “You’ve got a Friend,” “I Feel composing dozens of hits along with her husband, Gerr y the Ear th Move, “It ’s Too Late” and of course the title song, Goffen, for some of the most famous names of her era. “Beautiful.” The original 2014 production took home a few Aretha Frank lin, The Monkees, and even the Beatles Tony Awards of its own and in 2015, a Grammy. covered tunes that King wrote. Her career went into overdrive with her debut album “ Tapestr y,” which was released in 1971 and held the #1 position on the char ts Remember old favorites and discover new ones as you for dozens of weeks, spawned numerous #1 hit singles, take a trip back in time with the moving stor y of this and won her a handful of Grammy Awards. And that was stellar musician’s life. Both per formances begin at 7:30 just her first release! Throughout the rest of the ‘70s, King p.m. and take place at Rudder Auditorium. If you’re continued to release successful albums, ending up the interested in tickets, they range from $28.00-$100.00 and most successful US female songwriter of the latter par t of can be purchased from OPAS’s website. the 20th centur y with 118 pop hits on Billboard’s Hot 100.
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