Bruce on Broadway

[Neutral Corner]

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.

'Springsteen on Broadway': Bruce Gets Personal In His One-Man Show

 

[Pilot]

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.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Who is his understudy?

 

[Neutral Corner]

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

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?

 

[cjericho]

Sorry, Bruce fans, but 'Springsteen on Broadway' is a dud: review

 

[DanOregon]

Who is his understudy?

I'd imagine Southside Johnny.

 

[Huggy]

Who is his understudy?

Either Brian Fallon or John Cafferty

 

[CD Boogie]

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

 

[jr/shotglass]

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

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

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

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.

 

[britwrit]

Either Brian Fallon or John Cafferty

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....

 

[poindexter]

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.

 

[CD Boogie]

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.

I don't think I've even worn matching socks 50 times in my life

 

[The Big Ragu]

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.

The difference is the Disney freaks live in their own little world for the most part; they aren't evangelical about trying to spread Disney to the rest of us. Try to explain to a Springsteen freak that you don't care for Springsteen. How often do you get, "You have just never seen him live."?

Seriously, I don't like most of his music, find him to be a bore and I hate his voice. Why would I want to spend 3 hours in an arena listening to him?

 

[poindexter]

The difference is the Disney freaks live in their own little world for the most part; they aren't evangelical about trying to spread Disney to the rest of us. Try to explain to a Springsteen freak that you don't care for Springsteen. How often do you get, "You have just never seen him live."?

Seriously, I don't like most of his music, find him to be a bore and I hate his voice. Why would I want to spend 3 hours in an arena listening to him?

Haha, I thought I was going to get chastised for comparing the Springsteen fans to Disney freaks. Instead, you look *favorably* on the Disney freaks compared to the Springsteen heads.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Haha, I thought I was going to get chastised for comparing the Springsteen fans to Disney freaks. Instead, you look *favorably* on the Disney freaks compared to the Springsteen heads.

Actually, I am a little in awe of the guy who has gone to Disney 8,000 days in a row. I mean, not my thing. But I'd love to head somewhere every day to play Atari Pong and masturbate. I am just not good enough, or dedicated enough, to make it happen.

 

[DanOregon]

There is something funny about people paying hundreds to thousands of dollars to hear about how tough it is to be poor and struggling.

 

[poindexter]

There is something funny about people paying hundreds to thousands of dollars to hear about how tough it is to be poor and struggling.

In the review linked above, at least Springsteen is self-aware enough to admit he's never 'worked a hard day in his life' but that is what his catalogue of songs is based on.

 

[Huggy]

No surprise, Rolling Stone loved the show, must be a cover story coming soon...

Review: Bruce Springsteen's Broadway Show Is an Intimate Triumph

 

[SpeedTchr]

And here I thought 30 bucks was outrageous for a concert ticket.