Beautiful - The Carole King Musical - Cassidy Janson and Diane Keen join cast
Cast changes
FROM November 30, 2015, Cassidy Janson will play the title role in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, which has just extended its booking period at the Aldwych Theatre until November 26, 2016.
Also joining the cast will be Diane Keen as Genie Klein, King’s mother.
Alan Morrissey will continue as King’s husband and song-writing partner Gerry Goffin as well as Lorna Want as song-writer Cynthia Weil, Ian McIntosh as song-writer Barry Mann and Gary Trainor as music publisher and producer Don Kirshner.
Cassidy Janson was last seen in the West End playing Ruth in Dessa Rose at Trafalgar Studios. Her other theatre credits include Candide and tick, tick…BOOM! (Menier Chocolate Factory), Blood Wedding (Courtyard Theatre), Rooms: A Rock Romance (Finborough Theatre), Lend Me a Tenor (Gielgud Theatre), Company (Southwark Playhouse) and Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q (Wyndham’s Theatre). She was also a member of the original London cast of Wicked and played standby Elphaba.
On film Janson’s credits include The Hike, Tail’s End, Day Trip to London, Full Circle and Coma. She has recently guested with The Jive Aces performing at Glastonbury and Ronnie Scott’s and her television appearances include Casualty.
Diane Keen starred in the late 70s sitcoms Rings On Their Fingers with Martin Jarvis and You Must be the Husband with Tim Brooke Taylor, both for the BBC. She played the leading role in Foxy Lady and starred opposite David Roper and Lewis Collins in The Cuckoo Waltz, both for Granada. And from 2003-2012, she played Practice Manager Julia Parsons in the BBC daytime soap Doctors.
Her additional television credits include Sandbaggers, September Song, Ruth Rendell Mysteries and Brookside as well as guest appearances in The Professionals, Taggart, Minder, A Touch of Frost, and most recently New Tricks. Her film credits include Sweeney!, Thirteen at Dinner, Silverdream Racer, Judas and Jesus and Nowhere in Africa.
As well as a season for the Bristol Old Vic, Keen’s theatre credits include tours of Same Time Next Year, Ladybird, The Vagina Monologues, Small Hand and You’re Never Too Old.
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical is the untold story of her journey from school girl to superstar; from her relationship with husband and song-writing partner Gerry Goffin, their close friendship and playful rivalry with fellow song-writing duo Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, to her remarkable rise to stardom. Along the way, she became one of the most successful solo acts in music history, and wrote the soundtrack to a generation.
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