Bruce on Broadway

Springsteen, a guitar, and a mic in a 960 seat theater on Broadway. I hope the hell that it is captured on video for the rest of the world to see. It wouldn't do for me to have money, 'cause I'd pay stupid money to be there.

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My wife (huge Bruce fan, 50+ shows) decided she should get tickets for her dad (100+ shows) for Christmas or something. I figured the show was entirely and eternally sold out, but she's also a Broadway nut, so if she thinks its possible, maybe it is? So she did check.

Yeah, it's impossible. It makes our near-decision to pay $700 per ticket for Hamilton look wise. (We eventually settled for "cheap" $250 tickets from the box office purchased a year before our show.)

I think it was $900 per for the cheapest tickets for the night she looked.

 

Who is his understudy?

 

When I told my wife about this, I said that obviously we weren't going to even talk about it... but that if we could go, I'd happily drop a grand apiece for back row seats. House seats 960, how bad could they be?

 

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I'd imagine Southside Johnny.

 

Either Brian Fallon or John Cafferty

 

Saw Bruce once at FedEx Field in like 2004. That was enough. His popularity is one of modern society's great unsolved mysteries.

 

I get it on an outsider's level, I guess. I'm not one of them, either.

 

Right?! I spent 10 years in Jersey and it felt like concert days were like a state holiday. I get it, he's a great performer. But nothing I need to see.

 

Michael Pare. Watch as he grumpily talks about all the other movies he's been in besides Eddie and the Cruisers. Like, Streets of Fire. And.... uh....

 

50 shows? 100 shows?
I am not trying to criticize - the best parallel I can come up with is this Disney freaks who have gone to Disneyland 1000 times, and have achieved certain Disney statuses, have Disney character tats, etc.