Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil: 'Beautiful' is their story, too

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical opens at the Academy of Music on Tuesday. It's playwright Douglas McGrath's tale of how musicmaker Carole King went from writing pop songs in the late 1950s to becoming the goddess of the singer-songwriter movement with 1971's multiplatinum album Tapestry. The jukebox musical spins King hits soulful ("Some Kind of Wonderful") and heartfelt ("You've Got a Friend").