Based on the life and times of singer-songwriter, Neil Diamond, A Beautiful Noise is a good bit more than the typical jukebox musical.  The framing device of the story is that current day Neil Diamond ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It certainly was a choice that playwright Anthony McCarten used “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” to portray the ...

It all looks and sounds great, but the clock is ticking — therapy! — and we are no closer to understanding the real Neil. Until, at long last, the older singer cracks and stops obfuscating. Naturally, ...

If you are looking to fill your mind, body and spirit with some beautiful noise, look no further than Cleveland’s Playhouse Square, where Neil Diamond’s greatest hits are brought to life in the ...

Like many Baby Boomers, I grew up on the music of Neil Diamond, appreciating his distinctive whiskey baritone voice, earworm melodies and familiar, sing-along lyrics. But when I saw “A Beautiful Noise ...

Nick Fradiani as ‘Neil – Then’ in ‘A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical’ Credit: photo by Jeremy Daniel After selling over 130 million albums — including 38 Top 10 hits — during a career that ...

There’s a big booming introduction — “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Neil Diamond” — the stage curtain does that ta-dah swoop upward, the lights blaze and then … nothing. There, center stage, sits the ...

Talk about an oxymoronic title, especially for a musical. Drawn from a 1976 Neil Diamond song title and applied to the whole arc of his life and career, “A Beautiful Noise” is a yoking worth pondering ...

SCHENECTADY — Jukebox biomusicals are nothing new. “Jersey Boys” arguably kicked off the trend, followed by a slew of star-centered (and star-endorsed) Broadway projects. The Temptations, Cher, Donna ...

“Solitary Man” is the first song Neil Diamond recorded and this title, unexpectedly, turns out to be the thematic underpinning of “A Beautiful Noise,” the jukebox musical bio that arrived Tuesday, ...

An audience singalong on “Sweet Caroline” was enough to overcome a glitchy opening and a wanting script for the Broadway tour of “A Beautiful Noise,” the Neil Diamond bio musical that kicked off ...