“Springsteen on Broadway” is a unique evening with Bruce Springsteen, his guitar, a piano, and his very personal stories. Based on his worldwide best-selling autobiography 'Born to Run,' the show's original run in 2017 and 2018 included 236 sold-out performances at Jujamcyn's Walter Kerr Theatre and earned Springsteen a Special Tony Award.
For a consummate performer like Springsteen, the deeply personal show was routine, but damn was it inspiring for me and the rest of the audience. On Saturday, we learned that tourists are back. Everytime Springsteen mentioned a town - San Francisco, Phoenix, Asbury Park - there were loud cheers from people who live there. He had to tell the out-of-towners to 'shut the f-k up.'
The first deviation from the 2017/18 song list came during the Patti Scialfa segment of the show where they followed up the usual 'Tougher Than The Rest' with a fun, flirty duet on 'Fire.' It was a great showcase for Scialfa's vocals, and a better representation of their love for each other than the sorrowful 'Brilliant Disguise' from the old show.
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