Natalie Weiss brings warmth to the main role in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at Olney Theatre Center.
There’s a contradiction at the center of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” a buoyant and enjoyable if not particularly curious dramatization of roughly the first dozen years of the groundbreaking singer-songwriter’s career that opened at Olney Theatre Center on Saturday night: By making its narrative spine King’s evolution from teenage Brill Building hitmaker to Earth-moving solo singer-songwriter, the show asks us to buy for 2.4 of its 2.
While King’s gifts as a composer were evident from the moment she sold her first song to publisher Don Kirshner at the age of 16, it wasn’t until her late 20s — after she’d divorced her philandering husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin and lit out for the leafy Los Angeles hamlet of Laurel Canyon — that she came fully into her own with “Tapestry,” the Grammy Award-winning, mega-selling 1971 album that remains her most singular creation.
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