"SWEET SEASONS" CELEBRATES THE MUSIC OF CAROLE KING

Iconic singer/songwriter Carole King penned her first hit “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” when she was a teenager of 17 and she never looked back. She wrote it with her new husband Gerry Goffin for the female group The Shirelles and the pair became a songwriting legend. They got an assignment to write a song for the princely sum of $25 plus one penny for royalties for each record sold. She explained that chords often came first, she would start tentatively, and then get the hang of it. She loved “to play for the gods,” a feeling that affected her emotionally. She “takes a song on a journey” wandering from chord to chord, from verse to bridge to verse, creating a melody conversationally. Together with Gerry Goffin, they composed such hits as “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “The Loco-motive,” “Up on the Roof,” “Chains.” “One Fine Day,” “Hey Girl,” “I’m Into Something Good,” “Just Once in My Life,” “Don’t Bring Me Down,” and “Natural Woman.” More than 1000 artists have recorded more than 400 of her songs. Ultimately she wanted to be recognized and respected by those who sang them. Carole King certainly “has got a friend” in singer and piano prodigy Michelle Foster who has taken the legendary songwriter and fashioned a tribute show “Sweet Seasons” coming to the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury on Saturday, June 25 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 26 at 2 p.m. Come be enveloped in the sounds, stories and songs that mark Carole King’s success, thanks to the talents and sparkling shine of this New York-based singer, pianist, actress and dancer. Touring professionally since she was 14, Michelle Foster has been a soloist at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in front of thousands, a regular keyboardist with Gloria Gaynor’s musical director Mark Baron as well as a keyboardist and vocal soloist with the legendary doo-wop group The Duprees. She has also starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Joseph” and performed in the composer’s music tribute in Canada as well as on tour. For tickets ($35), call Seven Angels Theatre, 1 Plank Road, Hamilton Park, Waterbury at 203-757-4676 or online at www.sevenangelstheatre.org. Now you have the unique opportunity to hear Michelle Foster up close and personal performing the music of the iconic Carole King, clearly a “Natural Woman” who can shout “I’m Into Something Good” “One Fine Day” and fine evening too.