A Neil Diamond show heads to Broadway. Just don’t call it a jukebox musical
'A Beautiful Noise' chronicles the superstar's triumphs but doesn't shy away from his struggles
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The Schmooze A Neil Diamond Musical Is Headed To Broadway
There’s not a trace of doubt in our minds that a Neil Diamond musical is headed for Broadway. A new musical about the life and career of one of the most famous Jewish American singers of the last fifty years is currently in development, Deadline reported. The age of biopic musicals on the Great White…
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Music Happy Birthday And Farewell To Neil Diamond, Retiring At 77
There are certain things in this life that I pretty much take for granted: Snow will fall in December. A new baseball season will begin in April. And if he’s not already touring somewhere as we speak, Neil Diamond will be going on tour again soon. Which is why the announcement that the multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter…
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Fast Forward Neil Diamond Gives Up Touring After Parkinson’s Diagnosis
(JTA) — Jewish singer-songwriter Neil Diamond announced he is giving up touring after recently being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The Australia and New Zealand leg of his 50th Anniversary tour scheduled for March have been cancelled, according to the announcement. “It is with great reluctance and disappointment that I announce my retirement from concert touring. I…
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Music Why Neil Diamond Still Matters
Back in 1967, in the midst of his initial run of brilliantly pithy three-chord pop singles, Neil Diamond cut a pair of radio jingles for Coca-Cola. One of them was an upbeat rocker in the Latin-tinged “Cherry, Cherry” vein, the other a slow strummer that built to a crescendo a la “I Got the Feelin’…
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Culture Neil Diamond’s 32nd Album Is His Best in 40 Years
Sometime back in 1986, it finally dawned on me that Neil Diamond might actually be cool. This wasn’t the easiest or most logical conclusion to come to, having spent so much of my elementary and high school years cowering amid the bombastic onslaught of “Longfellow Serenade,” “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (his wrist-slittingly maudlin divorce-rock…
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Culture Neil Diamond Goes Back Home to Brooklyn
Who says you can’t go home again? Singer Neil Diamond returned to Brooklyn Monday for a surprise performance at the high school he attended in the 1950s. Hundreds of fans lined up outside Erasmus Hall High School in the Flatbush section hoping to snag free tickets to hear a rare intimate performance by the entertainer…
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Culture Hey Baby, It’s the 4th Of Jew-ly!
When it comes to popular patriotic American songs written by Jews, “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin certainly stands at the top of the list; it isn’t, on the other hand, particularly festive. If you want to soundtrack your Fourth of July cookout with tunes by Jewish artists that are appropriately star-spangled, and haven’t already…
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