Springsteen on Broadway

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Springsteen on Broadway is a concert residency by Bruce Springsteen being held at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City. The run will consist of Springsteen performing five shows a week, Tuesday through Saturday. A preview performance was held on October 3, 2017 and an official opening on October 12, 2017. The run was originally expected to conclude on November 26, 2017; however due to high demand for tickets and issues with scalpers, additional dates were added with the run now ending on June 30, 2018.

The shows will feature Springsteen, solo, playing guitar and piano, performing his music, reading excerpts from his 2016 autobiography, Born to Run, and performing other spoken reminiscences written for the show. Springsteen's wife, Patti Scialfa also will appear however has missed a few performances due to being hospitalized with the flu.

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Background

On June 16, 2017 information leaked that Springsteen would be performing an eight-week run on Broadway in New York City at the 960 seat Walter Kerr Theatre in the fall of 2017. On August 9, 2017, the performances were made official by Springsteen's website. "Bruce has had this specific idea in mind since last December. It came into focus slowly and then all at once last January," Springsteen's manager Jon Landau said in a statement.

Springsteen said of the performances "I wanted to do some shows that were as personal and as intimate as possible. I chose Broadway for this project because it has the beautiful old theaters which seemed like the right setting for what I have in mind. In fact, with one or two exceptions, the 960 seats of the Walter Kerr Theatre is probably the smallest venue I've played in the last 40 years. My show is just me, the guitar, the piano and the words and music. Some of the show is spoken, some of it is sung. It loosely follows the arc of my life and my work. All of it together is in pursuit of my constant goal to provide an entertaining evening and to communicate something of value," says Springsteen.

The creative team for Springsteen on Broadway includes Heather Wolensky (scenic design), Natasha Katz (lighting design) and Brian Ronan (sound design).

On September 19, 2017, Springsteen performed a rehearsal show at Monmouth University that was invitation only and attended by around 200 family and close friends.

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Tickets

In response to major issues with scalping and resales as seen on previous Springsteen tours, tickets were made available exclusively through Ticketmaster Verified Fan, a system put into place by Ticketmaster in February 2017. Ticket prices range from $75-$850. Despite Ticketmaster's efforts to eliminate bots and resellers, tickets immediately appeared on resale sites such as Stubhub minutes after they went on sale. Several hundred tickets were available on StubHub with prices ranging from $1,800 to $6,700. Due to scalper issues and the original run of dates selling out in minutes, Springsteen announced the residency would continue until February 3, 2018 with tickets for the newly announced dates going on sale September 7, 2017. A second extension to June 30, 2018, was later announced, with no new registrations being taken. Instead, people who had previously registered but were unable to get tickets will be contacted to give them the opportunity to purchase seats.

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Setlist

1. "Growin' Up" (from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.)
2. "My Hometown" (from Born in the U.S.A.)
3. "My Father's House" (from Nebraska)
4. "The Wish" (from Tracks)
5. "Thunder Road" (from Born to Run)
6. "The Promised Land" (from Darkness on the Edge of Town)
7. "Born in the U.S.A." (from Born in the U.S.A.)
8. "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (from Born to Run)
9. "Tougher Than the Rest" (w/ Patti Scialfa) (from Tunnel of Love)
10. "Brilliant Disguise" (w/ Patti Scialfa) (from Tunnel of Love)
11. "Long Walk Home" (from Magic)
12. "The Rising" (from The Rising)
13. "Dancing in the Dark" (from Born in the U.S.A.)
14. "Land of Hope and Dreams" (from Wrecking Ball)
15. "Born to Run" (from Born to Run)

• "The Ghost of Tom Joad" has been performed a few times in place of "The Rising", and it also has been a replacement along with "Long Time Comin'" for the two songs from Tunnel of Love due to Patti Scalfia being hospitalized with the flu.

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Personnel

• Bruce Springsteen - Lead vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
• Patti Scialfa - backing vocals (on "Brilliant Disguise" and "Tougher Than the Rest")

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Springsteen on Broadway at the Internet Broadway Database

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