You’re gonna really, really love this show.

“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” will hit the Gateway stage in Bellport starting Aug. 9

For one thing, it has Kaitlyn Davis as the “Beautiful” Carole King lead. Davis has played King in the musical’s National Tour. (Also, Christine in the national tour of “Phantom of the Opera” and sang for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Kennedy Center.) Add director Larry Raben, who directed last year’s blockbuster “Jersey Boys,” as well as a slew of others and talented choreographer Debbie Roshe, and you have a show that can’t miss.

Did we say that Davis is a Long Island girl?

She is—from Levittown. She attended Hofstra University.

The Advance sat down with all three recently, along with executive artistic director Paul Allan, to discuss the upcoming musical.

But a little background first. “Beautiful” won Tony, Grammy and Olivier awards. It was clear from its San Francisco tryout in 2013 that this was an amazing musical; it opened on Broadway in 2014 and played to 2019.  The outstanding careers of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, who wrote the words and music to a startling repertoire of contemporary hits, plays out through their songs and includes people they worked with: Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Phil Spector and others.

But King was the engine. “The show opens and ends at Carnegie Hall with Carole at the piano,” said Allan.

As for Davis, the daughter of musicians, she sat in front of a piano first. (Besides advanced piano, she also plays guitar and ukelele.) Davis grew up performing in community theater.

“I always wanted to do Gateway,” she admits.

“My college voice teacher at Hofstra told me, ‘You have an operatic instrument,’ about my voice. So I went ahead and got a master’s in opera performance at Rutgers. I got the ‘Phantom’ lead right after graduation. We closed just before the shutdown. Christine (the Phantom lead) is a comfortable sing, but this is my favorite style [as Carole].”

“You nail her sound,” said Raben to Davis. It’s his 14th show directing at The Gateway. “Carole King and Gerry Goffin are so special and part of my upbringing,” he said. “But I also love the inclusion of Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann and the depth of their involvement. It’s about two writing teams and their relationships.

“With the songs, most people say, ‘I didn’t know they wrote that!’”

Think The Shirelles, the Drifters, the Righteous Brothers.

“Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” by The Shirelles, was the first girl group No. 1 record and one of the first by Black artists to sell to young white kids.

“There’s a deceptively large amount of choreography in the show,” said Roshe. (Roshe, who has a slew of choreography credits, is a master teacher with classes at Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center. She danced herself on Broadway.)

“The small steps The Drifters, a skilled performing and dance act, and The Shirelles dance to are harder to put together than a big number.

“All of the cast can move and dance. For me, I’m not a great singer. But the fact that they can sing at this level, move the way they do and act, it creates a nice community where everyone’s carrying together.”

It was mentioned that King attended Queens College. “It’s such a New York story and there’s a special rhythm of how they talk to each other,” said Davis.

There are 20 in the cast. “Lukas Poost (Gateway’s ‘Jersey Boys,’ ‘Kinky Boots’) is portraying Barry Mann,” said Allan. Other alums include Bill Coyne, Emily Grace Tucker, Joshua Coates and Angie Schworer.

Allan said he’s often asked, “Why this show?”“It is a jukebox musical of sorts, but Carole also created so many songs for all these groups.”

For tickets, click on www.thegateway.org.