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Beautiful: the Carole King Musical at Orpheum Theatre, August 23, 2016

SHNSF presents Beautiful: the Carole King Musical
Orpheum Theatre
1192 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
8:00 PM, Tuesday, August 23, 2016

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Act One

[8:m PM lights down, announcements, band out]

  1. [8:m PM] Overture - Orchestra
  2. [8:m PM] So Far Away - Carole King
  3. [8:m PM] Oh! Carol - Neil Sedaka
  4. [8:m PM] 1650 Broadway Medley - Ensemble
  5. [8:m PM] It Might as Well Rain Until September - Carole
  6. [8:m PM] Be-Bop-A-Lula - Ensemble
  7. [8:m PM] Some Kind of Wonderful - Carole, Gerry Goffin and The Drifters
  8. [8:m PM] Happy Days Are Here Again - Cynthia Weil
  9. [8:m PM] Take Good Care of My Baby - Gerry and Carole
  10. [8:m PM] Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) - Barry Mann
  11. [8:m PM] Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Carole
  12. [8:m PM] He's Sure the Boy I Love - Cynthia and Barry
  13. [8:m PM] Will You Love Me Tomorrow reprise - The Shirelles
  14. [8:m PM] Up on the Roof - Gerry and The Drifters
  15. [8:m PM] On Broadway - The Drifters
  16. [8:m PM] The Locomotion - Little Eva and Ensemble
  17. [8:m PM] You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - The Righteous Brothers
  18. [8:m PM] One Fine Day - Janelle, Carole, and Ensemble
    [set ends 9:m PM]

Act Two

[9:m PM lights down, announcements, band out]

  1. [9:m PM] Chains - Carole and Ensemble
  2. [9:m PM] Walking in the Rain - Barry and Cynthia
  3. [9:m PM] Pleasant Valley Sunday - Marilyn Wald, Gerry, Carole and Ensemble
  4. [10:m PM] We Gotta Get Out of This Place - Barry
  5. [10:m PM] Will You Love Me Tomorrow reprise - Carole
  6. [10:m PM] Uptown - Ensemble
  7. [10:m PM] It's Too Late - Carole
  8. [10:m PM] You've Got a Friend - Carole, Barry, Cynthia and Don
  9. [10:m PM] (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Carole and Ensemble
  10. [10:m PM] Beautiful - Carole
  11. [10:m PM] I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King and Ensemble - not listed in program!?
    [show ends 11:m PM; bows and curtain calls, followed by an extended outro from the band as the crowd files out of the theater]

Performers

Principals

Supporting Cast

Musicians

Creative Staff

Notes

See Wikipedia for a synopsis and other helpful info about this musical.

At the conclusion of the first act, my primary thought was, “meh, too much white bread,” for indeed, the construction recipe of choice morsels of teeny bopper pop is bland and tasteless. Like cotton candy puffs, it might taste heavenly at first, but too much will induce gastric distress before satisfying any serious hunger.

Thankfully, the second set introduced more substantial tunes, as the lyric pieces were stitched together in order to relate the story of Carole King's metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly. Nothing stunning there either (after all it's what we expect when we see a caterpillar), but hugely more satisfying than the succession of Shoo Be Doo Wop-pop tunes that filled the first set.

Would i recommend the show? I'd say it depends on how you feel about the stronger material of the second half: if you like it, then sure, take a chance and see the play. You'll learn a bit about these pain and sorrow that stimulated creation of Carole King's masterpiece, Tapestry.

And somehow I seem to have misplaced my program with timing info, so there's only placeholders listed above. I'll probably find it someday when I'm sifting through the piles of crap around here, but until then, you get absolutely nothing!

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