Our highly respected colleagues in the Sarasota area have created a website similar to ours called ArtsBeat.org. We will publish some of their fine insightful work on occasion when the show is likely to come to South Florida on a tour, or when a production will be of interest to local readers. In this case, this national tour is at the Kravis Center through April 12 will be coming to the Arsht Center this December 1-6.
The biographical musical has become a Broadway genre unto itself, with a generally tenuous story line providing the opportunity for a string of jukebox greatest hits guaranteed to draw fans eager to revisit the feel of a live concert from their musical idol, even if it isn’t the real deal.
In that sense, A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical is exactly what you would expect: a visually flashy, high-energy parade of more than two dozen of the acclaimed singer/songwriter’s enduring tunes that prompt audience members to lip synch, clap and respond with what The New York Times called “Pavlovian singalongs” to ear-worms like “Sweet Caroline.”…