Pop Origami on Broadway
Doug McGrath reimagines Broadway's Jukebox Musical One of the best aspects of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (at the Stephen Sondheim Theater) is seeing book writer Doug McGrath's origami treatment of American pop music history. McGrath, who has directed the excellent films Infamous and Nicholas Nickleby, starts with bio-pic basics about singer-songwriter Carole King's life in the 1960s. (Prodigy Carole Klein…