Review: In ‘Beautiful’ at Drury Lane, Carole King’s story begins with her as a 16-year-old songwriter

Review: In ‘Beautiful’ at Drury Lane, Carole King’s story begins with her as a 16-year-old songwriter

Midway through “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” the chart-topping composer responds to a colleague’s suggestion that she perform in public with a modest question: “I’m just a normal person; who wants to hear a normal person sing?” He replies, “Other normal people.” Their exchange sums up the whole vibe of this biographical jukebox musical about a middle-class young woman from Brooklyn making her way in show business and finding her own voic…