Neil Diamond Surprises Opening Night Audiences Of His ‘A Beautiful Noise’ Musical With ‘Sweet Caroline’: Watch

Neil Diamond fanatics were already connected unreality 9 during the opening nighttime of his Broadway philharmonic A Beautiful Noise connected Sunday, Dec. 4. But determination were truly successful for a dainty erstwhile the crooner, 81, amazed audiences astatine the Broadhurst theatre with a rendition of his anthem “Sweet Caroline.”

I thought the item of the nighttime was watching Neil Diamond watching and loving @beautifulnoise and past THIS happened. pic.twitter.com/P5Mpw9qYlE

— Jamie DuMont (@jamiedumont) December 5, 2022

The assemblage and the show’s formed screamed arsenic Neil took the mic. His dependable was creaseless arsenic ever arsenic helium sang, and erstwhile the crooner got adjacent to the track’s iconic chorus, a beauteous choir began harmonizing down him.

And the brushed stone fable dressed the part, rocking a toned-down mentation of 1 of his signature sequined jackets. Instead of afloat glitter, the snazzy look featured a metallic python people implicit black.

Broadway pro and podcaster Jamie Dumont captured the infinitesimal for Neil fans astir the world. He took to Twitter with the clip and shared, “I thought the item of the nighttime was watching Neil Diamond watching and loving @beautifulnoise and past THIS happened.”

Neil Diamond amazed fans with a show of his way ‘Sweet Caroline’ during opening nighttime of his Broadway philharmonic ‘A Beautiful Noise.’ (SplashNews.com)

It was a uncommon outing for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame singer, who was astatine the accumulation with his woman Katie McNeil. Neil has mostly stayed retired of the spotlight since helium stopped touring successful January 2018 pursuing his diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. In fact, it was the past clip helium performed successful New York since 2017.

Fans were heartbroken erstwhile helium initially announced the quality successful 2018. In a statement, shared with NPR and different outlets, helium said, “It is with large reluctance and disappointment that I denote my status from performance touring.

“I person been truthful honored to bring my shows to the nationalist for the past 50 years. My sincerest apologies to everyone who purchased tickets and were readying to travel to the upcoming shows.” He added that helium would proceed to constitute euphony “for a agelong clip to come.” Finishing with a motion to his deed “thanks to you,” helium told fans, “This thrust has been ‘so good, truthful good, truthful good.'”