Cast

NEIL DIAMOND (Music and Lyrics). Throughout an illustrious and wide-ranging musical career, Neil Diamond has sold more than 130 million records worldwide and has charted 39 Top 40 singles and 16 Top 10 albums, both in the US and internationally. A Grammy Award-winning artist, Diamond is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, one of the highest honors bestowed upon songwriters. Diamond’s many other achievements include a Golden Globe Award, 13 Grammy nominations and 2009’s NARAS’s MusiCares Person of the Year award. In 2011, Diamond received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime of contributions to American culture.

ANTHONY McCARTEN (Book). A four-time Academy Award-nominated and double BAFTA-winning screenwriter and film producer of The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017) and The Two Popes (2020), as well as the writer of Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)—winner of four Oscars and the Golden Globe for Best Drama—and the upcoming Whitney Houston biographical film I Wanna Dance With Somebody (2022). New Zealand-born McCarten is also a celebrated novelist and playwright. As a playwright, he received early career success with the global hit Ladies Night. His 2019 play The Two Popes, which inspired the Netflix film, marked his return to writing for the stage for the first time in 20 years. His latest play, The Collaboration, about Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat, premiered to criti- cal acclaim at The Young Vic Theatre in a sold-out run and will open on Broadway on December 20, 2022. He lives in London.

MICHAEL MAYER (Original Director). Broadway credits include: Chess, Swept Away, A Beautiful Noise, Funny Girl, Hedwig…(Tony Award Best Musical Revival), American Idiot (co-author), Spring Awakening (Tony Award Best Director, Best Musical), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award Best Musical), Side Man (Tony Award Best Play), A View From the Bridge (Tony Award Best Revival), Little Shop of Horrors is in its sixth year Off-Broadway! Film: A Home at the End of the World (Excellence in Filmmaking, National Board of Review), Flicka, The Seagull, Single All the Way.

STEVEN HOGGETT (Original Choreographer). Broadway and West End credits include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Sweeney Todd, A Beautiful Noise, Angels in America, The Crucible, The Last Ship, Once, The Curious Incident…; Wild Rose (Edinburgh Lyceum); Let the Right One In, Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland); Nye, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre). As director: Hamlet: Hail to the Thief (Factory International/RSC), Burn (National Theatre of Scotland). As choreographer: David Byrne’s ‘Who Is The Sky’ international tour.

DAVID ROCKWELL (Scenic Design). Broadway: Fallen Angels; Chess; ART; Pirates! The Penzance Musical; Doubt; A Beautiful Noise; Into the Woods; She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC awards); On the Twentieth Century (Tony nom.); You Can’t Take It with You (Tony nom.); Kinky Boots (Tony nom.); Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC noms.). Off Broadway: Ragtime; Oliver!; the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Film and television: 81st, 82nd, 93rd Oscars (2010 & 2021 Emmy Awards). Founder and President of Rockwell Group.

EMILIO SOSA (Costume Design). Chair, American Theatre Wing. Broadway: Purlie Victorious (Tony nomination), Ain’t No Mo’ (Drama Desk award, Tony nomination), Good Night, Oscar (Tony nomination), Trouble in Mind (Tony nomination), 1776, Skeleton Crew, On Your Feet!, Motown: The Musical, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination), Topdog/Underdog. TV: “Annie Live!” (NBC). Film: Descendants: Rise of Red (Disney+), The Famous Lillian Hall (HBO), Red Hook Summer (dir. Spike Lee). Usher’s Las Vegas, Big Apple Circus, The Rockettes, NY Knicks City Dances (NBA), Diana Ross, Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Wynton Marsalis. @esosafashion

KEVIN ADAMS (Lighting Design) has received four Tony Awards for his work on Broadway, including Chess, Funny Girl, The Cher Show, Head Over Heels, SpongeBob the Musical, Hedwig…, American Idiot, Next to Normal, Passing Strange, The 39 Steps, Spring Awakening, Hair and Take Me Out. His book on lighting Broadway musicals comes out in 2027, Electric Spectacle: Designing Color and Light for the Stage.

JESSICA PAZ (Sound Design). Broadway: Hadestown (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award); POTUS. Associate sound designer: Dear Evan Hansen; Bandstand; Disaster! The Musical; The Assembled Parties (MCC); and Fela! Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theatre); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); A Sucker EmCee and The Muscles in Our Toes (Labyrinth); The Kings Whore (Starcatcher Productions); Becoming Dr. Ruth (Westside Theatre). Numerous productions at The Public Theater including Twelfth Night, Othello, Miss You Like Hell, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It. Regional: American Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe; Hartford Stage, Berkeley Repertory, among others.

SHANNON SLATON (Tour Sound Design) on Broadway has designed The Illusionists and My Window: Melissa Etheridge, he has designed many national tours including the international tour of Wicked; Mark Twain Tonight!; Elf; Shrek; Once on this Island; The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; Noise/Funk; The Full Monty; Contact; A Chorus Line; Tap Dogs; Sweeney Todd; The Wizard of Oz; The Drowsy Chaperone; and The Wedding Singer. Shows he has mixed on Broadway include Springsteen on Broadway, Man of La Mancha, Bombay Dreams, A Christmas Carol, Sweet Charity, Jersey Boys, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, Spring Awakening, Fela!, Anything Goes, Annie, Legally Blonde, and Cabaret.

LUC VERSCHUEREN for CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES (Hair, Wig and Makeup Design). Broadway: Water For Elephants; Almost Famous; Bad Cinderella; The Devil Wears Prada (Chicago); Funny Girl; The Music Man; King Lear; Head Over Heels; Carousel; Three Tall Women; Hello, Dolly!; Groundhog Day; The Front Page; The Crucible; Misery; Sylvia; Betrayal; Les Misérables; Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Broadway/West End: Tammy Faye; Back to the Future; Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, Company, A Christmas Carol, Tina–The Tina Turner Musical (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Wig and Hair Design), The Ferryman, Farinelli and the King, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Ghost, Billy Elliot. West End: Cinderella, Anything Goes, Rosmersholm, All About Eve. Film/TV: “The Gilded Age,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Downton Abbey (movie).

SONNY PALADINO (Music Supervision and Arrangements, Orchestrations). Broadway: A Beautiful Noise, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Gettin’ The Band Back Together, Pippin, Sting’s The Last Ship, Jesus Christ Superstar, POTUS. Off-Broadway: Smokey Joe’s Café, Rolling Thunder, Copperfield! and Reunions. Coming soon: Let the Good Times Roll and Dion’s The Wanderer. Arrangements and orchestrations for The Indianapolis, Baltimore, Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s and the Philly Pops. Music director/ arranger for hit touring group, The Doo Wop Project. Co-founder and senior VP of Joy Machine Records.

ANNMARIE MILAZZO (Vocal Design). Spring Awakening; Next to Normal; If/Then; Finding Neverland; Bright Lights, Big City; Super Hero; revival of Carrie; Dangerous Beauty; Prometheus Bound; Some Lovers; Dave; revival of 1776; A Beautiful Noise. As composer/lyricist: Pretty Dead Girl (winner of a Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival), Joy, Lucky Us, A Walk on the Moon. As orchestrator: Once on This Island (with Michael Starobin). Nominations: Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Grammy.

BRIAN USIFER (Incidental Music and Dance Music Arrangements, Orchestrations). Brian received a 2026 Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestrations for Chess, where he also served as Music Supervisor and provided Additional Arrangements. Broadway: Swept Away and The Heart of Rock and Roll (Music Supervisor, Arrangements, Orchestrations), A Beautiful Noise (Orchestrations, Incidental and Dance Arrangements), Disney’s Frozen (Music Director, Additional Arrangements), Kinky Boots (Music Director, Additional Arrangements, Associate Music Supervisor; Tour, London and Toronto) and The Book of Mormon (Associate Music Supervisor). Brian is co-founder of Joy Machine Records, an independent record label dedicated to theatre music and artists.

JAMIE HARRISON (Illusion Design). Most recently Jamie directed, designed and illusion designed Bedknobs and Broomsticks for Disney/Michael Harrison in the UK and Flight for the Edinburgh International Festival. Jamie created the magic and illusions for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for Sonia Friedman/Colin Callender. He is artistic director of Vox Motus.

AUSTIN REGAN (Tour Director). Broadway: Galileo, American Idiot, Everyday Rapture, On a Clear Day, Head Over Heels, A Beautiful Noise. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors. Directing: Rigoletto (Minnesota Opera), The Trojan Women (Hangar Theatre), Mad Libs (New World Stages), Cowboy (Harlow Radical), Threepenny Opera (Opera Columbus). Artistic Director of Harlow Radical. www.austinregan.nyc

Yasmine Lee is an award-winning NYC based movement director & choreographer whose work spans theater, film, television, large-scale events, opera, music video and concert dance across over 40 countries.

Select choreographic credits include David Byrne’s Social! (Park Avenue Armory), Pig Iron’s Franklin’s Key (Barrymore Award for Outstanding Movement Director/Choreography), World Expo Opening Ceremonies in Dubai (Gold Telly Award), Disco Show (Las Vegas), The Thing About Jellyfish (Berkeley Rep), Parable Of The Sower Opera (Lincoln Center), and Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater). For screen, her work includes “Saturday Night Live” (NBC), “American Horror Story” (FX), “Made For Love” (HBO Max), Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, and The Opening Ceremony of The XXII Winter Olympic Games. She has worked with artists such as Katy Perry, Andrea Bocelli, Christina Aguilera, Yo-Yo Ma, Mary J. Blige, Nora Jones, Ellie Goulding and Mariah Carey.

FERNANDO PARRA BORTI (Associate Tour Director) As Assistant Director to Michael Mayer: Chess (Broadway), A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Boston, Broadway & 1st National Tour), Aida, La Traviata (The Metropolitan Opera). 24-25 Directing Fellow, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Design for Stage and Film. Education: École Jacques Lecoq, Paris. Thanks Mom!! FernandoParraBorti.com

BOND THEATRICAL (Tour Booking, Marketing & Publicity) is an independently-owned theatrical booking, marketing and publicity company representing award-winning Broadway shows and live entertainment properties. BOND connects artists and audiences by forming strategic, authentic and profitable partnerships between producers and presenters across North America. For a complete list of current projects, please visit BondTheatrical.com

GENTRY & ASSOCIATES (General Management) has managed nearly 250 national and international touring theatrical productions over the past 25 years. Current and upcoming productions include A Beautiful Noise, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Come From Away, Elf, Funny Girl, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Mean Girls, Peter Pan, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Wiz.

KADEN DOLPH (Production Stage Manager) is excited to share this show with audiences
across the country. National Tours: The Book of Mormon, Jesus Christ Superstar 50th Anniversary Tour, Turn It Up Dance Challenge. Regional: Tuacahn Amphitheater, Pittsburgh CLO, Denver Center, and The Nutcracker Ballet at Colorado Dance Theatre. Many thanks to Trinity, Seth, and the creative team. @kadendolph

RACHEL MONDSCHEIN (Assistant Stage Manager) is making her National Tour debut! Broadway: Giant (Technical Production Assistant). Regional Credits: The Lexington Theatre Company (SM Intern), Syracuse Stage (SM Intern), Playhouse on Park (Stage Manager). Rachel recently graduated with a BFA in Stage Management from Syracuse University. She would like to thank her Mom, Dad, Sister, and Auntie for all their love and support! Go Orange!

ELISE BROWN (Company Manager) is over the moon to join the A Beautiful Noise tour! After two years on the road with Hadestown, she’s thrilled to keep the journey going with this wonderful company. Proud alum of Point Park University and NYU. Endless gratitude to Mom, Dad, Sydney, Barb, Alicia, and Jeff for their guidance in making every adventure possible. Here’s to the next act!

KEN DAVENPORT (Original Producer). Two-time Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer. Broadway: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Paranormal Activity, Titaníque, Oh Mary!, Operation Mincemeat, Othello, Once On This Island, The Play That Goes Wrong, Gettin’ The Band Back Together, Spring Awakening, It’s Only a Play, Macbeth, Godspell, Kinky Boots. Off-Broadway: JOY, Altar Boyz, The Awesome 80s Prom, My First Time and more. UK: Sister Act The Musical, Paranormal Activity. Upcoming: The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation, Slumdog Millionaire The Musical, The Ten. Creator of “Be A Broadway Star.” Ken’s productions have been produced internationally in over 25 countries around the world, including A Beautiful Noise in Australia. He was the executive producer for North America for Andrew Lloyd Webber and the theatrical consultant for Primary Wave. Favorite production: McKenna Davenport with super wife Tracy Weiler. Born Kenneth Anjum Hasija, Ken dedicates his career to his late father, Dr. Kenny Dipchand Hasija. @kendavenportbway

BOB GAUDIO (Original Broadway Producer/Orchestrations). Inducted into the Songwriters, Rock and Roll, and the New Jersey Hall of Fame. The principal writer and an original member of The Four Seasons portrayed in Jersey Boys, one of the top ten longest-running Tony and Olivier Award-winning hit broadway musicals. Earned a Grammy for the JB cast album, remaining one of the top ten bestselling cast albums. Gaudio wrote and/or co-wrote “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Beggin’,” the classic “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and numerous oth- ers. He produced and co-wrote with Jake Holmes, the album Watertown for Frank Sinatra. He produced a number of songs for Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Roberta Flack and others and the film soundtrack for Little Shop of Horrors. Bob’s longtime association with Mr. Diamond yielded seven albums, including The Jazz Singer Soundtrack, along with “America,” “Hello Again,” “September Morn,” “Love on the Rocks,” “Forever in Blue Jeans” and the Diamond & Streisand duet “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers.” Thanks to the life-long support of his three children, Lisa, Danielle and Shannon. Special thanks to the Nashville ABN music development team: Ryan Sutton, Debra Clements, Blair Masters. A Beautiful Noise would not be a reality without the insights and trust of Neil and Katie Diamond.