“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.
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.
Though the show largely hewed to the original incarnation, there were some notable additions, and new phrases, soliloquies and tales woven into the performance. Springsteen mentioned his new record, 'Letter to You'; his new film of the same name; and his dismissed drunken-driving charges. But he also tried to make sense of the moment, of a long year filled with loss and isolation during the pandemic.
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