October 30, 2024 • 12 mins
The Doctor is in the house! The Doctor of A Beautiful Noise that is in Fab House!
She is Lisa Renee' Pitts, who plays "Doctor" in "A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical", a musical I took "Judi with an i for travel" from Cleveland's Connor Stage to the St. Louis' gem that IS The Fabulous Fox!
When I saw the show in Cleveland, tbh, I wasn't going to think I'd love it that much other than Neil and I share the same last name (No relation, unfortunately for me!). Well, let me say this: A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical is one of THE BEST musicals I've seen IN YEARS! I had NO IDEA all the songs that Neil had written! I knew almost every single song! AND I had no idea he wrote music that other artists made big hits, like UB40's "Red Red Wine" or The Monkees "I'm a Believer"!
Well, I am MORE than a Believer now that I LOVE this musical!! It was even better the second time I saw it! SO if you get a chance to see any Broadway show, put this on the top of your list!
I got a chance to chat with the "Doctor" (who btw is on stage the entire show!) and would love for you to take a listen on the podcast, you'll find some really cool little tidbits! Here's Lisa's info too:
LISA RENEÉ PITTS (Doctor). Award-winning veteran actress. Broadway: Sweat (Cynthia u/s). Selected OffBroadway: The Old Settler (Lou Bessie) opposite Leslie Uggams; Waiting for Lefty (Florrie) dir. Joanne
Woodward. Selected regional: Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Charlene, She/Her); The Father (Woman)
opposite Alfred Molina; Tiny Beautiful Things (Writer #2); Doubt (Mrs. Muller); Tintypes (Susannah); A Raisin
in the Sun (Ruth); Intimate Apparel (Esther). Noted film work: Straight Outta Compton (Dr. Dre’s Mother);
Highlighted television appearance: “Stephen King’s: The Stand” (Paramount+). VO: Accomplished
audiobook narrator. BFA; Rutgers University. LisaReneePitts.com
She is Lisa Renee' Pitts, who plays "Doctor" in "A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical", a musical I took "Judi with an i for travel" from Cleveland's Connor Stage to the St. Louis' gem that IS The Fabulous Fox!
When I saw the show in Cleveland, tbh, I wasn't going to think I'd love it that much other than Neil and I share the same last name (No relation, unfortunately for me!). Well, let me say this: A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical is one of THE BEST musicals I've seen IN YEARS! I had NO IDEA all the songs that Neil had written! I knew almost every single song! AND I had no idea he wrote music that other artists made big hits, like UB40's "Red Red Wine" or The Monkees "I'm a Believer"!
Well, I am MORE than a Believer now that I LOVE this musical!! It was even better the second time I saw it! SO if you get a chance to see any Broadway show, put this on the top of your list!
I got a chance to chat with the "Doctor" (who btw is on stage the entire show!) and would love for you to take a listen on the podcast, you'll find some really cool little tidbits! Here's Lisa's info too:
LISA RENEÉ PITTS (Doctor). Award-winning veteran actress. Broadway: Sweat (Cynthia u/s). Selected OffBroadway: The Old Settler (Lou Bessie) opposite Leslie Uggams; Waiting for Lefty (Florrie) dir. Joanne
Woodward. Selected regional: Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Charlene, She/Her); The Father (Woman)
opposite Alfred Molina; Tiny Beautiful Things (Writer #2); Doubt (Mrs. Muller); Tintypes (Susannah); A Raisin
in the Sun (Ruth); Intimate Apparel (Esther). Noted film work: Straight Outta Compton (Dr. Dre’s Mother);
Highlighted television appearance: “Stephen King’s: The Stand” (Paramount+). VO: Accomplished
audiobook narrator. BFA; Rutgers University. LisaReneePitts.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You've probably heard me talk about it several times by
now A beautiful noise the Neil Diamond Musical is. It's
so fantastic and we are so lucky and so blessed
because we have with us. Lisa Renee Pitts. Oh, I
(00:22):
just saw it last night at the Fabulous Fox for
the second time. Got to see it in Cleveland. You're fantastic.
You play the therapist in it. All I know of
you is the therapist. But you have a cast name, right.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
No, I don't. That's actually listed as the doctor, the doctor.
That's our doctor. Yes, the doctor. I have given myself
a name, but it's in the in the cast listing
as the doctor.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Now, what is the name you gave?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Anita Harris Ooh, I like it. I love it, actually, yes,
I can see that totally. And uh. The thing is,
you are on stage the entire show. This is a
two hour, forty minute show. I want to say, actually
two hours.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
And fifteen minutes with a fifteen minute intermission. Oh really,
so we're about two hours a little over two hours.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It feels like it goes so fast because it's so good,
and I think that what I'm trying to get out
to people is you don't even have to know any
of Neil Diamond's songs. Most people do know, of course,
Sweet Caroline and Kentucky Whatever, a Lucky Woman, Kentucky Woman,
and Song Sung Blue and all kinds of that. But
(01:30):
what was surprising to a lot of people and me
are the songs that you didn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
He wrote exactly so many. And I am just like
my character in the beginning when I say I'm sorry,
I don't know your songs, but actually I do know
a few of them.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You get the biggest laugh then because everyone's going yeah,
and then you go, wait, I'm a believer with the monkeys,
you be forty Red Red one.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
We play that absolutely, No one love it, No one
love it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I love it. So you've got We've got a lot
of credits to your name. Let's talk about a few
of those before we get into the show.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh wonderful. I'm originally from Brooklyn, New York, Flatbush, Brooklyn,
just like No Way, No Way, Yes, Yes, I am so.
I studied theater at Rutgers University, and I've done Broadway
and off Broadway. Now live in Los Angeles, where I
do a lot more television and film. But it's just
an honor to be on this tour doing this specific show.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, you're meant for it. You're so good in the role,
and you I mean La that's my old stumbing ground,
by the way, and by the way, you're also a narrator,
a book narrator.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Audio books, Yes, and I do all genres from sci
fi to children. I just love it, just love it.
I'm a storyteller, that's I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And that's so if you're looking for your next audibles,
go to or you know, ebook or however you get
of Lisa Renee Pets. That's right, that's right, because you
have a beautiful voice.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Don't do radio, then I'm in trouble. So let's started
off the journey, then the journey of getting on stage
being the doctor. How did it all come about?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, I received a submission from my agent's in Los Angeles,
and now since the pandemic, we tape our auditions and
send them in.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So they sent me.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The script and I absolutely loved it. Again, I didn't
know all about Neil Diamond, but just the way the
story is set up, that you have this huge musical
with all these wonderful songs that we know and love.
But then there's also this play within the musical and
that just I was just hooked from there. So I
(03:35):
submitted my tape. A few months later, I went to
New York to do my callback for the directors and
such and the team, and now here I am.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Do you think that being from Flatbush had a lot
to do with the help that helped you? Really in
that role? I don't, well not get the role. I mean,
just you know what I'm saying, because it's that's where
Neil Diamond is from.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Absolutely, and we are type of people, you know, we're
strong willed people. Yes, So I incorporate all of that,
all of that into building my character and into listening
to his journey from being from Brooklyn all the way
going to where he is now.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And I think, you know, as much as the music
and dancing is so phenomenal, the scenes between you and
the now Neil Diamond, yes, are what really I thought
made the musical one of my favorites I've seen in years.
So beautiful, inspiring. Yes, And I don't want to give
too much away, but I want people to see this
(04:36):
because of the story. Yes, yes, yes, so many moving
parts Can I bring up the part about the songbook? Sure,
so you bring a songbook out because he really doesn't
want to go to therapy and this is based on
his life.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, absolutely, and he was one of the collaborative collaborators
on building this piece.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yes, So you take out the book and.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, and from there we go back into the journey
of his childhood all the way through to when he
becomes this megastar, and he just revisits those songs and
you understand why he wrote it, what he was going
through mentally, physically, personal life as well as his musical journey.
So he's just been so transparent about his story and
(05:21):
that's what makes it so beautiful because it's relatable. We
can all relate to having moments of doubt, fear, anxiety, success,
all of those things. But he just presents it there
in like this open book and we just take that
journey with him.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So it's so beautiful. I mean, there's one scene where
he sings hello, Yes. I can't stop crying whenever I
even thinking about it, because again, we've been there where
we felt so in the clouds, yes and down and
you want to call somebody, and you call everybody and
it's just not going to help.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, exactly. And that's how he refers to it, that
feeling of anxiety or feeling down. He calls it the cloud. Yes,
like these clouds are just engulfing him, you know. And
we put out certain people in our celebrities, we put
them on pedestals and we forget that they're real people too,
and so it's so wonderful when people of that status say,
(06:17):
we're the same. I have the same struggles that you have.
So again, just the relatability of the story, as well
as all the greatest hits that people know in love,
oh yeah, you can't lose, you can't lose, you know you.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Of course you want to hear Sweet Caroline, which is
done more than once. And all the songs coming to America,
I mean I can't name them all in Lover, in Blue,
g Thank You Song, Cherry Song, Sung Blue, I mean,
there are so many. And the dancing, yes, incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
We have an amazing ensemble cast and they work so
hard every single night, and also they're in rehearsal because
they also cover some of the lead characters. Just an
amazing talented group of people. What do you think has
been so far? And you've been on tour for how long? Now?
(07:09):
Two months now? We started in August in rehearsals in
New York City, and then by the end of beginning
August September, I don't even know where we are now.
September we opened in Providence in Rhode Island, and all, yes,
I heard, I heard that he got on the phone
with was it Kate? His his wife was at our
(07:30):
opening and she facetimed him so we were able to
see him on her phone and he spoke with the audience.
He also led Sweet Caroline after our bound. Oh that
is fantastic. I love to all of our eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, I love that she could come in. Megan's here.
Megan from The Fox just came into the studio and
we were just talking about just the touring and where
they're at, and I was asking Lisa what so far now,
it's just been a couple of what has been the
biggest takeaway so far.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
About the musical or just my yeah, about.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Your journey with the musical, and then with the musical.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Again, well, this is my very first tour. Really yes, Wow,
Julie will go to a theater space stay there for
three months or so, do the show, and also on
Broadway you just stayed along with that stint until the
show closes. So this was a new experience for me.
You know, even we were talking earlier about just even packing.
Oh yeah, tour, how do you do it?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And it takes time to get acclimated to living on
the road per se. But it's been wonderful and to
do it with this type of show as my very
first time. Wow, I'm spoiled. Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yes, And what do you think would be something? Because
I really have been really talking this show up because
I really want people to go. Would be something you
could say to say somebody who says, oh, I don't
know Neil Diamond, my mom and dad, i'd love Dale Diamond.
What would you say to them? I mean, I already
told my son he's going, and you get to Boston,
tell me exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
My nieces and nephews, who are the Z generation they
will be attending too. But again it goes back to
like I said, that relatability. Not only are you going
to see this dynamic concert, you know, you don't have
to know Neil Diamond. The music, it's spectacular, the dancing,
the lights, sound, it's going to draw you in. But
then on top of that, you're going to be educated
(09:29):
about mental health issues, about depression, about anxiety, all of
those things and how you can overcome it. And in
the generation that we're living in now, that's for our
youth as well as our elderly. So you're going to
be entertained as well as educated, you know, and all
for the price of one.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So, and it's Neil Diamond.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, exactly, You've said it exactly how I've been telling people.
And the good news is with Neil Diamond's music. You know,
my son studies, but he uh, he was showing me.
He goes, mom, go to TikTok and look at all
the young ones that are singing Neil diamond songs. I'm like, oh, yeah, okay,
I saw that.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes, yes, my Timeless actually text me to say that
their high school the band was playing Sweet Caroline.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So he's still so relevant today everywhere you go. And
that's in New Jersey. Wow, you know. So it's just fantastic.
So you did rot I ever done Boston yet?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's not on this round of tours maybe next season.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yes, Oh, I can't believe it. Can you imagine that
ovation and standing when you say no, I know, but
I'm sure because we will be continuing, I'm sure, and
international dates to come as well, So I'm sure Boston
will be on the schedule. You're going to be touring
for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I have feeling I think so. And that's wonderful that
because the reception has been just amazing from every city
we go to. Saint Louis, you guys are the best.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh you love that fat fox, don't you see.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I hadn't even put my words together when we walked
into that theater. All of our castmates who were it
was their first time, our mouths dropped. It was just
phenomenal space. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I got to talk to Michael Bike and he said,
I said, you just wait, you just wait. I would
have loved to have seen his reaction.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh yes, yeah, I mean we were just in awe.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And of course Saint Louis loves our Fox, and we
love theater, love live theater.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes, that's what I was asking about today. Saint Louis
seems to be a theater town. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And I saw last night Opening night all ages, which
I thought was phenomenal, and everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Tapping their toes and singing along, and that is also
represented in our cast.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We have every generation, the diversity. It's yes, and Nick
Fardini playing the now than then Yes. Oh I a
lot of people again in the outside, I heard them saying,
oh my gosh, I thought he was lip singing. He's
so dead spot on.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yes. He was a part of the Broadway production, Yes, yes,
and now he is leading auatour and he's just phenomenal,
phenomenal man, phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Well, so are you again? You play the doctor, Lisa
Renee Pitts, and you're fantastic in the role. You just
grippingly fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Thank you so much, thank.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You for coming out my poppet to me and talking
to everybody. And go see a Beautiful Noise the Neil
Diamond Musical. It's an experience that will just leave you.
I'm still thinking about it. It really is one of
the best musicals I've seen in a very long time.
You've probably heard me talk about it several times by
now A beautiful noise the Neil Diamond Musical is. It's
so fantastic and we are so lucky and so blessed
because we have with us. Lisa Renee Pitts. Oh, I
(00:22):
just saw it last night at the Fabulous Fox for
the second time. Got to see it in Cleveland. You're fantastic.
You play the therapist in it. All I know of
you is the therapist. But you have a cast name, right.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
No, I don't. That's actually listed as the doctor, the doctor.
That's our doctor. Yes, the doctor. I have given myself
a name, but it's in the in the cast listing
as the doctor.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Now, what is the name you gave?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Anita Harris Ooh, I like it. I love it, actually, yes,
I can see that totally. And uh. The thing is,
you are on stage the entire show. This is a
two hour, forty minute show. I want to say, actually
two hours.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
And fifteen minutes with a fifteen minute intermission. Oh really,
so we're about two hours a little over two hours.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It feels like it goes so fast because it's so good,
and I think that what I'm trying to get out
to people is you don't even have to know any
of Neil Diamond's songs. Most people do know, of course,
Sweet Caroline and Kentucky Whatever, a Lucky Woman, Kentucky Woman,
and Song Sung Blue and all kinds of that. But
(01:30):
what was surprising to a lot of people and me
are the songs that you didn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
He wrote exactly so many. And I am just like
my character in the beginning when I say I'm sorry,
I don't know your songs, but actually I do know
a few of them.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You get the biggest laugh then because everyone's going yeah,
and then you go, wait, I'm a believer with the monkeys,
you be forty Red Red one.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
We play that absolutely, No one love it, No one
love it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I love it. So you've got We've got a lot
of credits to your name. Let's talk about a few
of those before we get into the show.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh wonderful. I'm originally from Brooklyn, New York, Flatbush, Brooklyn,
just like No Way, No Way, Yes, Yes, I am so.
I studied theater at Rutgers University, and I've done Broadway
and off Broadway. Now live in Los Angeles, where I
do a lot more television and film. But it's just
an honor to be on this tour doing this specific show.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, you're meant for it. You're so good in the role,
and you I mean La that's my old stumbing ground,
by the way, and by the way, you're also a narrator,
a book narrator.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Audio books, Yes, and I do all genres from sci
fi to children. I just love it, just love it.
I'm a storyteller, that's I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And that's so if you're looking for your next audibles,
go to or you know, ebook or however you get
of Lisa Renee Pets. That's right, that's right, because you
have a beautiful voice.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Don't do radio, then I'm in trouble. So let's started
off the journey, then the journey of getting on stage
being the doctor. How did it all come about?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, I received a submission from my agent's in Los Angeles,
and now since the pandemic, we tape our auditions and
send them in.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So they sent me.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The script and I absolutely loved it. Again, I didn't
know all about Neil Diamond, but just the way the
story is set up, that you have this huge musical
with all these wonderful songs that we know and love.
But then there's also this play within the musical and
that just I was just hooked from there. So I
(03:35):
submitted my tape. A few months later, I went to
New York to do my callback for the directors and
such and the team, and now here I am.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Do you think that being from Flatbush had a lot
to do with the help that helped you? Really in
that role? I don't, well not get the role. I mean,
just you know what I'm saying, because it's that's where
Neil Diamond is from.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Absolutely, and we are type of people, you know, we're
strong willed people. Yes, So I incorporate all of that,
all of that into building my character and into listening
to his journey from being from Brooklyn all the way
going to where he is now.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And I think, you know, as much as the music
and dancing is so phenomenal, the scenes between you and
the now Neil Diamond, yes, are what really I thought
made the musical one of my favorites I've seen in years.
So beautiful, inspiring. Yes, And I don't want to give
too much away, but I want people to see this
(04:36):
because of the story. Yes, yes, yes, so many moving
parts Can I bring up the part about the songbook? Sure,
so you bring a songbook out because he really doesn't
want to go to therapy and this is based on
his life.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, absolutely, and he was one of the collaborative collaborators
on building this piece.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yes, So you take out the book and.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, and from there we go back into the journey
of his childhood all the way through to when he
becomes this megastar, and he just revisits those songs and
you understand why he wrote it, what he was going
through mentally, physically, personal life as well as his musical journey.
So he's just been so transparent about his story and
(05:21):
that's what makes it so beautiful because it's relatable. We
can all relate to having moments of doubt, fear, anxiety, success,
all of those things. But he just presents it there
in like this open book and we just take that
journey with him.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So it's so beautiful. I mean, there's one scene where
he sings hello, Yes. I can't stop crying whenever I
even thinking about it, because again, we've been there where
we felt so in the clouds, yes and down and
you want to call somebody, and you call everybody and
it's just not going to help.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, exactly. And that's how he refers to it, that
feeling of anxiety or feeling down. He calls it the cloud. Yes,
like these clouds are just engulfing him, you know. And
we put out certain people in our celebrities, we put
them on pedestals and we forget that they're real people too,
and so it's so wonderful when people of that status say,
(06:17):
we're the same. I have the same struggles that you have.
So again, just the relatability of the story, as well
as all the greatest hits that people know in love,
oh yeah, you can't lose, you can't lose, you know you.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Of course you want to hear Sweet Caroline, which is
done more than once. And all the songs coming to America,
I mean I can't name them all in Lover, in Blue,
g Thank You Song, Cherry Song, Sung Blue, I mean,
there are so many. And the dancing, yes, incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
We have an amazing ensemble cast and they work so
hard every single night, and also they're in rehearsal because
they also cover some of the lead characters. Just an
amazing talented group of people. What do you think has
been so far? And you've been on tour for how long? Now?
(07:09):
Two months now? We started in August in rehearsals in
New York City, and then by the end of beginning
August September, I don't even know where we are now.
September we opened in Providence in Rhode Island, and all, yes,
I heard, I heard that he got on the phone
with was it Kate? His his wife was at our
(07:30):
opening and she facetimed him so we were able to
see him on her phone and he spoke with the audience.
He also led Sweet Caroline after our bound. Oh that
is fantastic. I love to all of our eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, I love that she could come in. Megan's here.
Megan from The Fox just came into the studio and
we were just talking about just the touring and where
they're at, and I was asking Lisa what so far now,
it's just been a couple of what has been the
biggest takeaway so far.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
About the musical or just my yeah, about.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Your journey with the musical, and then with the musical.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Again, well, this is my very first tour. Really yes, Wow,
Julie will go to a theater space stay there for
three months or so, do the show, and also on
Broadway you just stayed along with that stint until the
show closes. So this was a new experience for me.
You know, even we were talking earlier about just even packing.
Oh yeah, tour, how do you do it?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And it takes time to get acclimated to living on
the road per se. But it's been wonderful and to
do it with this type of show as my very
first time. Wow, I'm spoiled. Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yes, And what do you think would be something? Because
I really have been really talking this show up because
I really want people to go. Would be something you
could say to say somebody who says, oh, I don't
know Neil Diamond, my mom and dad, i'd love Dale Diamond.
What would you say to them? I mean, I already
told my son he's going, and you get to Boston,
tell me exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
My nieces and nephews, who are the Z generation they
will be attending too. But again it goes back to
like I said, that relatability. Not only are you going
to see this dynamic concert, you know, you don't have
to know Neil Diamond. The music, it's spectacular, the dancing,
the lights, sound, it's going to draw you in. But
then on top of that, you're going to be educated
(09:29):
about mental health issues, about depression, about anxiety, all of
those things and how you can overcome it. And in
the generation that we're living in now, that's for our
youth as well as our elderly. So you're going to
be entertained as well as educated, you know, and all
for the price of one.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So, and it's Neil Diamond.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, exactly, You've said it exactly how I've been telling people.
And the good news is with Neil Diamond's music. You know,
my son studies, but he uh, he was showing me.
He goes, mom, go to TikTok and look at all
the young ones that are singing Neil diamond songs. I'm like, oh, yeah, okay,
I saw that.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes, yes, my Timeless actually text me to say that
their high school the band was playing Sweet Caroline.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So he's still so relevant today everywhere you go. And
that's in New Jersey. Wow, you know. So it's just fantastic.
So you did rot I ever done Boston yet?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's not on this round of tours maybe next season.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yes, Oh, I can't believe it. Can you imagine that
ovation and standing when you say no, I know, but
I'm sure because we will be continuing, I'm sure, and
international dates to come as well, So I'm sure Boston
will be on the schedule. You're going to be touring
for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I have feeling I think so. And that's wonderful that
because the reception has been just amazing from every city
we go to. Saint Louis, you guys are the best.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh you love that fat fox, don't you see.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I hadn't even put my words together when we walked
into that theater. All of our castmates who were it
was their first time, our mouths dropped. It was just
phenomenal space. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I got to talk to Michael Bike and he said,
I said, you just wait, you just wait. I would
have loved to have seen his reaction.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh yes, yeah, I mean we were just in awe.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And of course Saint Louis loves our Fox, and we
love theater, love live theater.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes, that's what I was asking about today. Saint Louis
seems to be a theater town. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And I saw last night Opening night all ages, which
I thought was phenomenal, and everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Tapping their toes and singing along, and that is also
represented in our cast.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We have every generation, the diversity. It's yes, and Nick
Fardini playing the now than then Yes. Oh I a
lot of people again in the outside, I heard them saying,
oh my gosh, I thought he was lip singing. He's
so dead spot on.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yes. He was a part of the Broadway production, Yes, yes,
and now he is leading auatour and he's just phenomenal,
phenomenal man, phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Well, so are you again? You play the doctor, Lisa
Renee Pitts, and you're fantastic in the role. You just
grippingly fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Thank you so much, thank.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You for coming out my poppet to me and talking
to everybody. And go see a Beautiful Noise the Neil
Diamond Musical. It's an experience that will just leave you.
I'm still thinking about it. It really is one of
the best musicals I've seen in a very long time.
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