Carole King musical heading to Broadway...- Page 2

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/21/13 at 10:22am

Still a really horrible title. I like Tapestry a lot. And your mind totally goes to King when you think of it.

And Tapestry is still already the title of the Carole King revue licensed by MTI.
Tapestry

[newintown]

Posted: 6/21/13 at 10:23am

I hope they find a way to fictionalize her life so that it's theatrically interesting - she was rich and famous before she was 20, and (according to biographies), never had much of a struggle or a particularly hard time with life or success.

Good bio-musicals (and they're rare) show that you usually need to invent a good story only thinly related to the facts; real lives are rarely entertaining enough.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/21/13 at 10:26am

Lea Michele will play Carole.

I think the movie "Grace of My Heart" did a fairly decent job of trying to map out Carole King's life. Of course, there's so much there, they could only hit the highlights.

I'm afraid this might become a jukebox musical rather than an honest look at a very interesting artist.

[newintown]

Posted: 6/21/13 at 10:29am

I picture something similar to, but slightly less glitzy than, Motown.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 6/21/13 at 10:30am

Mister Matt, that title is actually not active in MTI's catalog or licensed any longer. I could not tell you if the original producers/creators took it somewhere else or simply stopped licensing it, but I do know with full certainty that it's not licensed by MTI anymore.

[Amneris25]

Posted: 6/21/13 at 6:38pm

Patti played Cynthia Weil in the reading, not Carole King. Vanessa Ray played Carole King.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 6/21/13 at 7:02pm

Thanks for clearing that up, Amneris. Vanessa Ray is a MUCH better fit.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 6/21/13 at 9:40pm

Seems like MTI still have it to me, Headband.

If not, then what's this?

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 6/21/13 at 9:41pm

Neither Vanessa Ray nor Patti Murin will be involved in the forthcoming production.

[massofmen]

Posted: 6/22/13 at 11:41pm

booorrrrrinnnnggggg.....

[BobNC]

Posted: 6/30/13 at 7:15pm

I love the title. "Beautiful" is the one song which best encapsulates Carole's very positive outlook on life. I hope Lea Michelle plays Carole. She definitely would be good for the box office.