Now, McCarten is pulling double duty on Broadway with The Collaboration and A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical. Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens sat down with the writer at citizenM Hotel for The Broadway Show to talk about "inspired speculation," Neil Diamond teaching him how to play "Sweet Caroline" on the guitar and more. Not only was A Beautiful Noise McCarten's Broadway debut, it also marks his first forray into stage musicals. "I got a phone call from producer Ken Davenport, and he said, 'Neil Diamond,' and I said, 'I'm in.' My mother, my whole childhood, had two pictures on the mantelpiece: one was of the Pope and one was of Neil Diamond.
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