A's birthday present. The gift for the whole adult family.
I went to this knowing Carole King's Tapestry, but not much else. Boy, was I blown away! I had no idea that that proceeding that hit album there was a whole catalog of great songs. The fact she and her husband wrote so many hits before Tapestry, in friendly competition with friends, and fellow Dimension Records songwriters, Cynthia Weil & Barry Mann, was amazing. This meant we spent the whole show saying "I never knew she/they wrote that!". From Locomotion, Will You Love Me Tomorrow to (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman. And then the Weil/Mann songs as well, especially We Gotta Get Out Of This Place and You've Lost That Loving Feeling.
The show ended with King walking on stage to play her own concert due to the beginning of the public's recognition of Tapestry. Very poignant that it ended on arguably her greatest success, so as to not take away from her brilliance in the years leading up to this.
The cast were phenomenal. Not a note out of place and the story had a great flow. The audience loved every second of it (especially A which is important for a birthday present). It is nights like these that I feel blessed to be able to see such performances.
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