"Beautiful" is a Pleasing Mash-Up of "Jersey Boys" and "Funny Girl" for Baby-Boomer Gals
The baby boomer musical, shows stitched together around the songbooks of acts popular in the '50s, 60's and '70s, is taking over Broadway. The trend started with the ABBA-scored Mamma Mia! and Movin' Out, in which choreographer Twyla Tharp set a ballet about the Vietnam generation to some old Billy Joel hits. But it got its Big Mo with the 2005 arrival of Jersey Boys, the bio-musical about The Four Seasons that…