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BEAUTIFUL: The Carole King Musical

Book by Douglas McGrath
Words and Music by Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
Music by Arrangement with Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Orchestrations, Vocal and Incidental Music Arrangements Steve Sidwell
Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International

A Pitlochry Festival Theatre Production

A brand-new production of the award-winning West End and Broadway musical.

Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of Carole King’s rise to stardom. She fought her way into the record industry at seventeen and by the age of twenty, she had the husband of her dreams and was writing number one hits for some of the biggest acts in rock ‘n’ roll including The Drifters, The Shirelles, Aretha Franklin and The Monkees.

Beautiful charts the ups and downs of her incredible journey, featuring unforgettable classics including You’ve Got a Friend, One Fine Day, So Far Away, Take Good Care of My Baby, Up on the Roof, You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, and Natural Woman.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Venue: Auditorium

Dates: 7 Jun – 28 Sep 2024

Running time: 2 hours 35 minutes, including 20 minute interval

Recommended Age Guidance: 12+

Accessible Performances

Audio Description: 1 Aug 2pm, 18 Sep 7.30pm. Ask about a Touch Tour

Captioned: 25 Sep 2pm

Relaxed and Dementia Friendly: 25 Aug 2pm

Matinee Audience Club: 24 Aug

Summer 2024 Diary

Ticket Info or call box office 01796 484626

Reviews

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Broadway Baby

“this is going to be one big hit”

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Musical Theatre Review

“joyous piece of theatre”

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The Herald

“…a gloriously celebratory portrait of an artist…”

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The Stage

“Showcases the breadth of Pitlochry’s ensemble talent”

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The Scotsman

“led by a breathtakingly strong and moving Kirsty Findlay as Carole King”

Creatives

Director Sam Hardie

Musical Director Richard Reeday

Designer Jessica Worrall

Lighting Designer Jeanine Byrne

Movement Director and Choreographer Sundeep Saini

Sound Designers Hugh Barbour and Toby McFarlane

Sound No.1 Hugh Barbour

Cast

Cynthia Lola Aluko

Neil Sedaka Chris Coxon

Barry Theo Diedrick

Carole King Kirsty Findlay

Gerry Connor Going

Shirelle Charlotte Grayson

Janelle Nina Kristofferson

Lucille Signe Larsson

Lou Adler Myles Miller

Genie Wendy Paver

Marilyn Elizabeth Rowe

Donnie Robin Simpson

Nick Luke Thornton

Drifter Luke Wilson

Other roles played by members of the company.

Lola Aluko

Lola Aluko

Lola trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Theatre credits: Macbeth (English Touring Theatre); Medea (National Theatre of Scotland); Interiors (Vanishing Point); Opening Time (A Play, A Pie and A Pint); The Angry Brigade, The Seagull, Human Animals and Maryland (Royal Conservatoire Scotland).

Film/Radio/TV credits: The Demon Headmaster (BBC); The Wedding (Create Anything/
BBC Scotland) which was shortlisted for the Digital Broadcast Awards.
Chris Coxon

Chris Coxon

Theatre credits: The Wizard of Oz (The Watermill Theatre); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Leicester Curve/UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (European Tour); The Muddy Choir (UK Tour); Beauty and the Beast (Alexandra Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (International Tour); Willy Wonka (Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai); Dreamboats and Miniskirts (UK Tour); Aladdin (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Alice in Wonderland (Lichfield Garrick); Save the Last Dance for Me (UK Tour); The Machine Gunners (Polka Theatre); Dreamboats and Petticoats (UK/Ireland Tour); Rock & Roll Aladdin (Shaw Theatre), SpongeBob SquarePants (Hammersmith Apollo/UK Tour); Spamalot (Palace Theatre); Good Thing Going – Simply Sondheim (Cadogan Hall); Peter Pan (Anvil Arts); Comedy of Errors, Jekyll & Hyde, The Tempest, Bleak House, Sense and Sensibility, Treasure Island and The War of the Worlds (The Pantaloons)

Film/Radio/TV credits: The Little Stranger (Film4); The Real Story of Hacksaw Ridge (ITV Studios);
Things Not to Say to Someone with Tourette’s Syndrome (BBC Three) and Sherlock Holmes (The
Asylum). Chris also appeared in the Emmy nominated #WeThe15 campaign video.

Other: Chris is a presenter for Durham OnAir, has lent his voice to dozens of audiobooks, animations and videogames, and also runs the audiobook production company Winooski Tyne.
Theo Diedrick

Theo Diedrick

Theo trained at Guildford School of Acting, where he was the winner of the 2022 Timothy West and Prunella Scales Actors Speech Prize. Footloose is his debut performance at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Theatre credits: Sleeping Beauty: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto (Theatr Clwyd); Once and The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood (The Barn Theatre); RuneSical (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); As You Like It, The Baker’s Wife and Into the Woods (Guildford School of Acting).

Other work: W.E.B. Du Bois in a reading of new play, Recognition and a commercial for Wagamama.
Kirsty Findlay

Kirsty Findlay

Kirsty trained at Edinburgh Napier University in Acting and English Literature. Kirsty was nominated with the 2016 cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland) for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Theatre credits: Forever Home, Exquisite Corpse and Oscar (A Play, A Pie & A Pint); A Christmas Carol (Dundee Rep); A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Arts Centre); Islander: The Musical (Helen Milne Productions, New York Off-Broadway, UK Tour & London transfer); Jack & the Beanstalk (Perth Theatre); Jamie & the Unicorn (The Gaiety Theatre); Christmas Tales (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Unspotted Snow (Mull Theatre); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland & Sonia Friedman Productions); Shattered (In Motion Theatre); Girl Meets Boy (National Theatre of Scotland) and Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast (Bard in the Botanics/Byre Theatre).

Film/Radio/TV credits: Close (Tom Gentle Productions); Scenes for Survival (National Theatre of Scotland/BBC); On the Outside (Nasreen Sarerei); Good Girls (Edinburgh International Film Festival/Edinburgh Napier University) and Lethe (December Works).

Recording credits: Atlantic (Noisemaker Productions); The 306: Dawn, Day & Dusk (National Theatre of Scotland) and Islander (HMP)
Connor Going

Connor Going

Connor trained at The University of Glasgow and Royal Academy of Music in London. This is Connor’s third repertory season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Theatre credits: Noises Off, Around the World in 80 Days and The Wind in the Willows (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Sunshine on Leith (Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Capital Theatres); Footloose (West End, UK & International Tour); The Choir of Man (Straz Center, USA Tour & Australia Tour); Robin Hood (Theatr Clwyd); Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (Barn Theatre Cirencester) and The Pirates of Penzance (Reid Concert Hall).

Film/Radio/TV credits: Good Omens Series 2 (Amazon Prime); Behind Her Eyes (Netflix); The Dad Squad (BBC); Cinderella (Sony Films); Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (West End); The Choir of Man (Original Cast Recording & Christmas Album); U2 at the BBC (Abbey Road Studios); The Beatles Orchestrated (Abbey Road Studios) and Donald & Benoit (Sound Stage, Pitlochry Festival Theatre).
Charlotte Grayson

Charlotte Grayson

Charlotte is an actor and musician. She trained at Mountview.

Theatre credits: Sunshine on Leith (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Lord of the Rings the Musical and Whistle Down the Wind (The Watermill Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Dundee Rep); Songs for a New World (The London Palladium); A Christmas Adventure (Oxford Playhouse) and Song of the Far Isles (Oxford Playhouse).
Nina Kristofferson

Nina Kristofferson

Nina trained at the Guildford School of Acting. She is a multi-award-winning actor, singer, writer, producer, director and teacher. She won the Award of Excellence at The Houses of Parliament (BHM) and the GAB Award for Excellence in The Arts for Africa & Africans around the World.

Theatre credits: Liz Imbrie in High Society, Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors, Mrs Vanderkieft in The Sting, The Girl in Blues In The Night along with Medea in Medea, Cleopatra in Anthony & Cleopatra and Billie Holiday in her self-penned West End, Nina Kristofferson’s Billie Holiday Story and Nina Kristofferson’s Timeless. In 2024 she will be performing in the Billie Holiday Tour.

Film/Radio/TV credits: As a singer and actor Nina has worked around the world in film, TV, theatre and radio with regular appearances on BBC London Radio as well as being a co-presenter for Channel 2 – Talk Radio Women in Business Radio Show. She is the voice of CEO, Brenna Casstlechop in Harold Halibut’s new game to be released this year.
Signe Larsson

Signe Larsson

Signe Larsson grew up in Stockholm, Sweden and moved to London to study Acting Musicianship at Mountview, where she became the first actor-musician to receive the Gyearbuor Asante Award for Acting.

Theatre credits: The Wizard of Oz (The Watermill Theatre)
Myles Miller

Myles Miller

Myles trained at Mountview in Performance in Actor Musicianship.

Theatre credits: Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: A New Musical* (*sort of) (workshop, Soho Theatre); Dick Whittington and his Cat (New Wolsey Theatre); Alice in Wonderland (Liverpool Everyman Playhouse); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Leicester Curve and UK Tour) and Beauty and the Beast (Nottingham Playhouse).
Wendy Paver

Wendy Paver

Wendy trained at Rose Bruford College on the Actor Musician course.

Theatre credits: Footloose (UK Tour & Dubai); Cinderella (Hall For Cornwall); Ballad of Rudy (Tour & Chelsea Theatre, London); Singin’ In The Rain (UK Tour); Alice in the Walled Garden (London); Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Chorus of Disapproval, Hello Dolly, The Crucible, The Blonde Bombshells of 1943, North and South and Summer Holiday (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Wind in The Willows (Taunton Brewhouse); Dick Whittington (Stafford Gatehouse Theatre); Buddy vs The Killer (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre); The Young Ones, The Mysterie of Maria Marten and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Anthems and Chess (Royal Albert Hall); Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre at the Mill); Dreamboats & Petticoats (Savoy Theatre and Playhouse Theatre, West End & UK Tour); Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story (Duchess Theatre, West End & UK Tour) and Return to the Forbidden Planet (Basingstoke Haymarket & UK Tour).

Other work: Ladbrokes (Commercial); Winterset (Theatre Royal Haymarket) and W@RN Theatre Company touring a show about domestic violence (Regional Tour).
Elizabeth Rowe

Elizabeth Rowe

Elizabeth trained at Mountview on the Actor Musicianship course.

Theatre credits: Mighty Woman (Workshop for JAS Theatricals at Wonderville UK); Dick Whittington and His Cat and Goldilocks and the Three Bears (New Wolsey Theatre); Zelda (Workshop for Creative Rights International at The Umbrella Rooms); Dick Whittington (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); One Man Two Guvnors (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); Oliver! With a Twist (Leicester Square Theatre and Underbelly Edinburgh); Jack and the Beanstalk (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Fat Busters, the Musical (Workshop with Park Theatre); Pretty, Whitty Nell (Workshop with Rogue Shakespeare Company at Etcetera Theatre); Sinbad (New Wolsey Theatre); Made in Dagenham (Queens Theatre Hornchurch/New Wolsey Theatre); Jane Eyre (Jackson Lane); Touched (Bernie Grant Arts Centre); Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Karamel Club). Elizabeth can also be seen performing with UK Fleetwood Mac as Christine McVie.
Robin Simpson

Robin Simpson

Robin is an English actor and storyteller. Robin is resident Dame at York Theatre Royal and was nominated for a National Pantomime award in 2022.

Theatre credits: Gaslight, Men of the World (Devonshire Park Theatre); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); Rep season at Harrogate Theatre; Classic (Edinburgh Fringe with Hope Mill Theatre/Her Productions); Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It (Northern Broadsides); Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre); Dirty Laundry (Claybody Theatre); Almost a Sacred Duty, Anna of the Five Towns, Beryl, A Voyage Round my Father and Laurel and Hardy (New Vic Theatre); Chamaco (HOME); Neverland (Lakeside Arts); Boeing Boeing, Bedroom Farce, David Copperfield, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Road to Nab End and Travels with my Aunt (Oldham Coliseum Theatre); The Travelling Pantomime, The Wind in the Willows, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Seagull, Hansel and Gretel, The Railway Children, Pinocchio, Pygmalion and The Little Mermaid (York Theatre Royal); Inside Out of Mind (Meeting Ground Theatre Company); Grandpa in my Pocket (Nottingham Playhouse); Lost Boy Racer (Lawrence Batley Theatre); We Love You City! (Belgrade Theatre); Me, as a Penguin, It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow and Flat Stanley (Leeds Playhouse); A Passionate Woman (Chester Gateway and The Theatre by the Lake); Frankie and Tommy, The Rivals, Red Skies over the Severn and The Century Plays (Swan Theatre).

Film/Radio/TV credits: The Continental: From the World of John Wick (Peacock & Amazon Prime); Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Liverpool 1, Home Fires and See No Evil: The Moors Murders (ITV); Doctors, Holby City and Waterloo Road (BBC).
Luke Thornton

Luke Thornton

Luke is an Actor-Musician who trained at Rose Bruford College. He plays numerous instruments including drums, bass, guitar, and harmonica.

Theatre credits: Brief Encounter, Dick Whittington, Goldilocks (New Wolsey Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (440 Theatre Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre Tour); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole the Musical, Aged 13 ¾, Love Letters (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Weapons of the Weak (The Other Palace); The Crucible, Summer Holiday (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Midnight (Union Theatre); Summer Holiday (Octagon Theatre Bolton); Beauty and the Beast, The Panto That Nearly Never Was, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin (Theatr Clwyd); A Night at the Musicals (Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra – Congress Theatre); Footloose (UK Tour); Dusty (Charing Cross Theatre); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium, Sunderland Empire) and The Cunning Little Vixen (Queen Elizabeth Hall).
Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson trained at RADA.

Theatre credits: Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Shakespeare Company); Rockets & Blue Lights (National Theatre); Under the Sun (The Royal Court); The Mountain Top (The Theatre Chipping Norton); Bootycandy (Gate Theatre); Run it Back for Talawa, Fragments of a Complicated Mind (Theatre503); Romeo and Juliet (Red Rose Chain); Twelfth Night (Southwark Playhouse); La Bayadere (Royal Opera House); Twelfth Night (The Handle Bards); The Odyssey Festival (Prometheus Unbound) (Cadogan Hall); Shakespeare Birthday Luncheon (The Pragnell Shakespeare Birthday Award); The Scottsboro Boys (Fiery Angel) and The Lion King (The Lyceum Theatre).

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BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

BEAUTIFUL: The Carole King Musical

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Reviews

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Creatives

Cast

Lola Aluko

Chris Coxon

Theo Diedrick

Kirsty Findlay

Connor Going

Charlotte Grayson

Nina Kristofferson

Signe Larsson

Myles Miller

Wendy Paver

Elizabeth Rowe

Robin Simpson

Luke Thornton

Luke Wilson

Leon Sinden Awards 2024

Group Discounts