A BEAUTIFUL NOISE Reaches Out and Grabs Hold – REVIEW
There’s a moment in the Neil Diamond bio-musical when the famed singer-songwriter says his career was “a beautiful monster.” That’s an apt description for A Beautiful Noise, the new musical on Broadway after a superb out-of-town tryout in Boston. It’s poised to be a box-office smash that doesn’t necessarily drive any artistic conversation forward but leaves audiences gobsmacked with joy.
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