Neil Diamond Surprises Opening Night Broadway Audience and Sings His Hit "Sweet Caroline"

Last Sunday night, A Beautiful Noise, the musical biography of Neil Diamond opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway. Diamond gave the audience a special treat by singing his hit song Sweet Caroline from his box seat after the cast took a bow.

As Ingrid Vasquez wrote in People Magazine, 

Neil Diamond made theatergoers at opening night of Broadway's A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical feel so good, so good!

The New York native surprised fans and audience members at the Broadhurst Theatre — where the new musical about his life opened Sunday night — with an impromptu performance of his hit song "Sweet Caroline."

It marks the first time Diamond, 81, has performed in his hometown since 2017 and was a rare appearance for the music icon, who announced in 2018 that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and would be retiring from concert touring.

Enjoy!

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Yiddish Word of the Day - Theatre

The Forverts series of short informal video clips called Yiddish Word of the Day is still going strong.

The series, written and narrated by Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter, aims to give non-Yiddish speakers an introduction to familiar Yiddish words and phrases and how they might be used in everyday situations. 

Schaechter, who was appointed the new editor of the Forverts in 2016, is the first woman to helm the paper in its 119-year history, its first editor to have been born in the United States, and likely its first editor who is shomeret Shabbat.

We posted the first of this series in May 2020. Now that the Forverts is continuing the series, we're sharing some of the words and phrases as a regular feature of Jewish Humor Central.

Today we're exploring words and expressions involving the theatre. All the world's a stage, and now you can talk about it in Yiddish.
 
Enjoy! 

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