King and Taylor had formed a friendship at the Troubadour nightclub in West Hollywood, where the singer-songwriter community was beginning to take hold over the ’70s music scene. The pair also performed a medley of “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” “Some Kind of Wonderful,” and “Up On the Roof,” the latter of which Taylor recorded with King on her debut album, Writer. The moment he appears on stage is captured in the audience’s reaction to the beginning of “ You’ve Got a Friend,” a song written by King that Taylor recorded and brought to number one on the charts. She also brought out a special guest: The year before, King had accompanied James Taylor for his Carnegie Hall concert the roles were reversed when Taylor made a surprise appearance that night. Performing songs drawn mainly from Tapestry, King began the concert with the powerful “ I Feel the Earth Move” before transitioning to some of her gentler but still soulful songs. ![]() Luckily, the performance was preserved, although 25 years elapsed between the concert and the live recording’s eventual release in 1996. Still at the beginning of her career as a performer in her own right-up until 1970 she had primarily written hits for other artists, most famously “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” for The Shirelles-King made a breathless ascent to a solo show that, for most artists, would be a long-awaited career highlight. Visit for tickets and showtimes.Following the release of her chart-topping album Tapestry in January 1971, Carole King made her headlining Carnegie Hall debut just five months later on June 18. “Beautiful - The Carole King Musical” will premiere at the Providence Performing Arts Center on Sept. “Providence will be out first audience - I can’t wait,” he added. His mother, Susan Dias, still lives in Tiverton. “I was fortunate when I was in ‘Jersey Boys’ to work with a great group of people and ‘Beautiful’ is also a great group of people."ĭias got his start in theater working locally on costumes and performing at Little Theatre of Fall River - with his grandmother, Francesca Petisca - and New Bedford Festival Theatre’s productions including “Annie,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” and “Jeckyll and Hyde.” ![]() it’s a great group of people,” Dias said. ![]() “The whole story is about them coming up together in the 1960s,” Dias said.Īlong with Abby Mueller as Carole King, the cast of "Beautiful" includes Liam Tobin as Gerry Goffin Becky Gulsvig as Cynthia Weil Ben Fankhauser as Barry Mann Curt Bouril as Don Kirshner and Suzanne Grodner as Genie Klein. He’s also the understudy for one of the lead roles: singer-songwriter Barry Mann, who wrote the song “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling.” As for his roles in the musical, Dias portrays Lou Adler, producer of King’s album “Tapestry.” Released in 1971, the album contained the songs “Beautiful,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” and many others that are known and performed by other artists to this day.Īs one of the ensemble cast members taking on multiple roles, Dias is also portraying singer Neil Sedaka and one of the Righteous Brothers.
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