‘Beautiful’ Gives King Songs Broadway Razzle: S.F. Stage
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Jesse Mueller is a knockout as singer/songwriter Carole King in “Beautiful,” the Broadway-bound musical biography that opened Tuesday in San Francisco.
Crucially, in the music and the singing, the show delivers the goods. That includes a big dose of nostalgia given King’s astonishing catalog of pop songs, from “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” to “Up on the Roof” and “You’ve Got a Friend.”