Bruce Springsteen has thrilled fans with the news that he’s bringing his Springsteen On Broadway solo show to the Walter Kerr Theater on West 48th Street from October 3-November 26.
Bruce will be performing five times a week, with only 960 tickets priced between $75 and $850 available each night.
“I wanted to do some shows that were as personal and as intimate as possible,” he tells us. “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 Walter Kerr Theater 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.”
To stand any chance of being there, fans will have to pre-register before August 27 at springsteen.tmverifiedfan.com, which uses Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system.
It’s mission statement is to “level the playing field to combat bots and get real tickets into the hands of fans who intend to go to the event.”
Whether it makes Bruce less prone to scalpers than Ed Sheeran or Radiohead, who’ve both only partially succeeded recently with their own anti-touting efforts, remains to be seen.
Talking recently to Hot Press, the E Street Band’s Garry Tallent revealed that, “It’s pretty safe to say that we’ll be on hiatus for a while. Bruce has at least one solo album he’s been sitting on.”
The Broadway announcement has inevitably lead to speculation that The Boss might get up to similar solo hi-jinx elsewhere.
This is just pure conjecture, but with his Irish go-to guys, Aiken Promotions, owning Vicar St. and Bruce being such a big fan of Mulligan’s and The Long Hall, Dublin would be another perfect place to set up shop for six weeks!
What is 100% confirmed is the official release through live.brucespringsteen.net of Action In The Streets, his much-bootlegged 1977 visit to Albany’s Palace Theater, which includes early prototypes of ‘Something In The Night’, ‘Rendezvous’ and ‘The Promise’ and a mesmerising expanded version of ‘Backstreets’.