'We Really Did Try to Make It': Beautiful"The Carole King Musical Is Fun, Fluffy, Vacuous
The Shirelles in 'Beautiful.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) Where you lead, Carole, I will follow, anywhere that you tell me to. And if it happens that you lead me to a mediocre bioplay that combines your peerless catalog"from Brill Building-era songs for the Drifters and the Shirelles and Aretha Franklin and the Monkees to the later, much more personal masterwork that is Tapestry"with a lifeless book, well, I'll follow you…