<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Beautiful-musicalMay15.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-2631 alignright" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Beautiful-musicalMay15-300x200.jpg" alt="Beautiful-musical(May15)" width="300" height="200" /></a><a href="http://beautifulmusical.co.uk/?gclid=CjwKEAjws5CrBRD8ze702_2dyjYSJAAAJK9y1hT8fU2ED74IeJ09nklr3hjB6KnRIbJ_K1Cw4gnPRxoCufbw_wcB" target="_blank">Wow! What a show!</a> Now I'm not into musicals but this was incredible. The show started with "Carol King" on stage seated at a grand piano and I was thinking - how is this going to work? Someone sitting at a piano, singing a few familiar songs and telling the life story, now that would have been disappointing. From this moment forward the show played out her early songs as a sixteen year old songwriter, getting together with Gerry Goffin, marrying him and the various groups they wrote for including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkees" target="_blank">Monkees</a> (Pleasant Valley Sunday) - for a full list of songs <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_with_lyrics_by_Gerry_Goffin" target="_blank">performed by others click here...</a> It is an incredible list and many of these songs were performed by look-alike groups.

By the end of the show the audience was on its feet and singing along to very familiar songs, a night full of joy and tears and nostalgia. We took the tube back to the hotel floating on a cloud of memories and wonder. Truly Beautiful.