The beginning of Beautiful, which opened in Los Angeles at the Pantages Theater this week, isn’t a full-blown orchestral overture to introduce the story of legendary singer-songwriter Carole King as one might expect from a Broadway musical. Instead, it starts with a lone baby grand on the stage and Sarah Bockel, who plays the titular music icon, walking out on stage as if this is her memorable 1971 concert at Carnegie Hall. She sits at the piano and starts performing “So Far Away”, swaddling the audience with the emotional song about two distant lovers, setting the tone for this jukebox musical that doesn’t feel anything like a jukebox musical.
As Bockel sings the words from “So Far Away”, she embodies quintessential 1971 King with her gorgeous mane of hair and a pre-disco era maxi dress that flows with Earth mother realness. With a tinge of a Brooklyn accent, she talks to the audience,...
As Bockel sings the words from “So Far Away”, she embodies quintessential 1971 King with her gorgeous mane of hair and a pre-disco era maxi dress that flows with Earth mother realness. With a tinge of a Brooklyn accent, she talks to the audience,...
- 9/16/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s been nearly a year since Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Robert Vaughn (Aka television’s very first Napoleon Solo) passed away, but his remarkable humanity and skill on the screen will soon be on full display in Victoria Negri’s upcoming “Gold Star.” Vaughn stars alongside Negri in the film in a family drama that’s partially inspired by the filmmaker and star’s own experiences with her family.
The film follows Negri as Vicki who, after dropping out of music school, “drifts aimlessly between her family’s house in Connecticut and an itinerant existence in New York. When her father suffers a debilitating stroke, she has to become his primary caretaker. Vicki resists connecting with him, and making peace with herself, but finds a way forward thanks to a new friend and a life-changing event.” Catherine Curtin and Jacob Heimer co-star alongside Vaughn and Negri in the film.
The film follows Negri as Vicki who, after dropping out of music school, “drifts aimlessly between her family’s house in Connecticut and an itinerant existence in New York. When her father suffers a debilitating stroke, she has to become his primary caretaker. Vicki resists connecting with him, and making peace with herself, but finds a way forward thanks to a new friend and a life-changing event.” Catherine Curtin and Jacob Heimer co-star alongside Vaughn and Negri in the film.
- 10/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Producers Paul Blake and SonyATV Music Publishing have announced the National Tour of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning hit musical Beautiful- The Carole King Musical will welcome Sarah Bockel Carole King, Andrew Brewer Gerry Goffin, Sarah Goeke Cynthia Weil and Jacob Heimer Barry Mann beginning September 12 in Fort Worth, TX.
- 8/31/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
I know what Victoria Negri‘s debut feature, Gold Star, is about, even if the thing never quite finds the footing to fulfill its promise. It’s about a young woman trapped in a life she never thought she’d lead — a part-time fitness club employee who’s lost the nerve to follow her dreams of becoming an internationally renowned concert pianist — her existential struggle for identity, reconciling desire with a rebelliously nihilistic streak, and coping with the unavoidable reality her birth provided. When your father is older than your mother’s parents, dealing with his depleting health and death is inevitable. Facing his mortality will either jumpstart her ambition to stop squandering obvious potential or expose perseverance’s futility in a world driven by tragic uncertainties and fate’s unyielding calculations.
These are the issues bearing down on Vicki (Negri playing a fictionalized version of herself going through similar...
These are the issues bearing down on Vicki (Negri playing a fictionalized version of herself going through similar...
- 10/9/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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