Beautiful: The Carole King Musical: Theater Review

Jessie Mueller plays the singer-songwriter who stepped out in the early '70s from behind the scenes to become one of the signature female voices of that decade. When the kitschy musical about the record producer behind the Shirelles, Baby It’s You, showed up briefly on Broadway in 2011, that 1960s girl group’s No. 1 breakthrough hit, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” was conspicuously absent. Turns out withholding the song rights for the far superior Beautiful: The Carole King Musical was a ...