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Total Rating: 
***
Previews: 
November 2, 2022
Opened: 
December 4, 2022
Ended: 
open run (as of May 2023)
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio; Co-produced by Sandi Moran, Hunter Arnold, Scott Abrams, Marco Santarelli, Jonathan and Rae Corr, Adam Riemer, Marguerite Steed Hoffman, Ron Kastner, Rob Kolson, Valli Family Group, Caiola Productions, Paul Dainty AM, Gaudio Family Group, Joseph J. Grano, Jr., Starlight Theatre, Roy Putrino, James L. Nederlander, Trisha Blake, Mar E. Jacobs, Universal Music Group Theatrical, Deborah Green, Patty Baker, Sheri and Les Biller, H. Richard Hopper, Sharon Karmazin, NETworks Presentations, Matthew Salloway, BB Investments, LLC, Universal Theatrical Group, Witz End Productions, Theatre Producers of Color and Ryan Conway.
Theater Type: 
Broadway
Theater: 
Broadhurst Theater
Theater Address: 
235 West 44 Street
Running Time: 
2 hrs, 15 min
Genre: 
Musical
Author: 
Book: Anthony McCarten. Songs; Neil Diamond
Director: 
Michael Mayer
Choreographer: 
Steven Hoggett
Review: 

Like most jukebox bio-musicals, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical is an excuse to play the subject’s song catalogue to an audience of rabid fans. Anthony McCarten’s book hits the usual bullet points—rise to fame, troubled marriages, conflicted and reflective old age—and provides intros to the smash hits. All is staged smoothly by Michael Mayer.

Will Swenson does a fantastic job of limning the young Diamond and Mark Jacoby is soulful and moving as his elder counterpart. Robyn Hurder provides the necessary emotional support and dynamite dance moves as Diamond’s put-on spouse.

Like  Broadway’s current Shucked, Noise doesn’t ask much of us except to sit back and relax. 

Cast: 
Will Swensen
Miscellaneous: 
This review was first published in Theaterlife.com and CulturalDaily.com, 5/23.
Critic: 
David Sheward
Date Reviewed: 
May 2023