This a guest post written by writer Lisa Gerstel-Zach: A diverse and seasoned executive who has spent her career in Children’s and Family Entertainment via Publishing, Live Events and Broadcast before stepping back to take a much earned reprieve from the Corporate world in order to reinvent herself and remember why she moved to New York. She lives in the latest hip neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
Did you ever think perhaps you were born to the wrong musical era…the music of my generation just doesn’t speak to me in the way the songs of Carole King’s era. Yes, often Carole and her husband Gerry Goffin’s collaborations were considered teen girl bop, but this bop had a soul and the evolution of Carole’s voice has a depth and honesty that pulls at my heartstrings.
Beautiful, The Carole King Musical on Broadway illuminates Carole’s early story as she juggles life as a struggling young mother, wife, collaborator and composer celebrating personal successes and failures. The audience was entranced as the wonderful cast, especially Chillina Kennedy, as Carole, embodied the Shireille’s, the Drifters, and other era notables and as we bore witness to Carole’s moving search for her own voice, culminating in a triumphant return home, home to Carnegie Hall. This show really provided all elements key to a successful musical, love, tears, relationships, friendships, and off course amazing music.
Source: Broadway.com
The show was a fantastic homage not only to a supremely talented individual but also to the spirit to forge ahead and follow a dream. Reminding us all that we must follow the music within us.
“Feh, what’s with the music of today?” I can almost hear my grandparents admonish my parents. While they weren’t exactly part of the beatnick generation or anything as shocking as Elvis’s hips, I wonder if I will use similar sentiments when I speak to my daughter as she explores the playlist of her life. Until that time I will try to influence it…
“You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your heart, then people gonna treat you better. You’re gonna find, yes, you will, that you’re beautiful as you feel.”
Head to the show’s web site for ticket information and check it out at the Sondheim Theater 124 West 43rd Street.
Disclosure: Lisa was provided with complimentary tickets to facilitate this review. All opinions are her own.
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