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This West End musical’s attempts to weave King’s songs into her life sage leaves you none the wiser as to who she wasFans of the singer-songwriter Carole King may be tickled just to hear a replay of her biggest hits in this West End musical, an efficient re-creation by Marc Bruni of his original Broadway production but with a British cast. While the show is pleasant enough, and it struck me as the theatrical equivalent of one of those bland Hollywood biopics in which a local boy or girl makes it to the top of the showbiz ladder.
Douglas McGrath’s book weaves the songs into the sage of King’s life. We first see her as a Brooklyn teenager with a passion for music and for her lyric-writing fellow student,Gerry Goffin, quickly identified as a “killer-flirt”.
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Source: theguardian.com