“So Good! The Neil Diamond Experience" at the Orpheum Theatre -- November 22.
Sunday, November 22, 6 p.m.
Orpheum Theatre, 47 South Kellogg Street, Galesburg IL
Delivering an exhilarating immersion into the life and career of a true music legends, Broadway, television, and film star Robert Neary creates an unforgettable tribute in So Good! The Neil Diamond Experience, two hours packed with classic hit songs, nostalgia, stories, multimedia, and trivia that comes to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on November 22.
To date, the 85-year-old Diamond has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had 10 chart-topping singles on Billboard's Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie," "Song Sung Blue," "Longfellow Serenade," "I've Been This Way Before," "If You Know What I Mean," "Desirée," "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (Diamond's duet with Barbra Streisand), "America," "Yesterday's Songs," and "Heartlight," the latter inspired by Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. In total, 38 songs by Diamond have been featured in the Top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, and his movie debut in 1980's The Jazz Singer earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. More recently, Diamond's legacy was celebrated in the Oscar-nominated musical dramedy Song Sung Blue.
Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. In 2019, his 1969 signature song "Sweet Caroline" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and Billboard ranked him as the 25th greatest artist of all time. Diamond is also the only musician to score a top 20 hit in each decade since the origin of Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart, and over a career spanning five decades, he has scored 16 top-10 albums on Billboard charts.
Boasting more than 40 years in the entertainment business, So Good! headliner Robert Neary has enjoyed three Broadway leads, as well as more than 60 major guest-starring television and film roles. He created his touring Neil Diammond tribute in 2019, and worked tirelessly with New York band The Mystic during the COVID-19 pandemic, to make the show the traveling hit that it has been for the past four years.
Robert Neary brings So Good! The Neil Diamond Experience to the Orpheum Theatre on November 22, admission to the 6 p.m. concert event is $36.20-51.80, and more information and tickets are available by calling (309)342-2299 and visiting GalesburgOrpheum.org.
