A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL - Reviews & News Thread — Page 4

https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/review-neil-diamond-musical-a-beautiful-noise_94623.html

"Review: Neil Diamond Musical A Beautiful Noise Is So Meh, So Meh, So Meh

But the AARP crowd will love it."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/theater/a-beautiful-noise-review.html

"Review: ‘A Beautiful Noise’ Makes for a Morose Neil Diamond Musical

In the new Broadway show, Will Swenson plays the superstar, who seems perpetually dissatisfied, as if on a quest — but for what?"

https://nypost.com/2022/12/04/neil-diamond-musical-review-awful-broadway-show-is-on-the-rocks/

"‘A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical’ review: Awful Broadway show is on the rocks"

Adam Feldman of Time Out gives it three stars (out of five):

"In the end, A Beautiful Noise can’t overcome the central challenge of being a Neil Diamond biomusical, which is that Diamond’s life has not been, in and of itself, especially dramatic. (The Gloria Estefan musical On Your Feet! had the same problem.) His first two marriages failed, but in drifts and not crashes; an association with mob-linked record executives (Michael McCormick and Tom Alan Robbins) is quickly overcome. The therapeutic framing notwithstanding, what we get here is less a story than a retrospective sequence of events, or perhaps events of sequins."

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/a-beautiful-noise-neil-diamond-musical-broadway-review-will-swensen

Essentially mixed reviews which is what I was expecting.

DTLI Consensus: So bad! So bad! So bad!

8 negative, 6 mixed (including the NYT), 1 positive. 

https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/a-beautiful-noise/

Jarethan said: "I was a little surprised that Will Swenson’s reviews were so mediocre…I thought his charisma would have resulted in better than he received."

Despite the track records for both biographical performances at award shows and Anthony McCarten's background in writing biopics that won Oscars for Best Actor, it doesn't look like Will Swenson's gonna even receive a Tony nomination for this.

EDSOSLO858 said: "Neil Diamond himself led the company in tonight's "Sweet Caroline" reprise at curtain call:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClxPtd5D2nX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link"

 

Was there and it was fun. I heard he was actually going to do it before the show but that was not done, evidently. An email evidently went out announcing it to his fans.

 

Updated On: 12/5/22 at 11:12 PM

Those are awful reviews, I would say as bad as ''Almost Famous''... maybe worse?

 

And for sure this is a ''Summer''.

I think it comes down to whether this will be the next Cher Show/Summer or the next Beautiful or Mamma Mia.

I was there last night; while it's certainly not mind-numbingly brilliant...I thought it was really a lot fun. I see this one sticking around. While its not as strong as BEAUTIFUL or JERSEY BOYS, I thought it was way better than SUMMER and THE CHER SHOW, which I think were conceptually flawed...and pretty much on par with MJ, if less splashy. I had a lot more fun at ABN than I did at a handful of other new musicals as of late (ALMOST FAMOUS and SUFFS come to mind).

I certainly was never challenged...but I was also never bored!

Right?! Hire me, Ken!