Bruce Springsteen Sets Eight-Week Broadway Run, With Oct. 3rd Previews, Oct. 12th Opening

Bruce Springsteen (Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock)

This will make the ticket rush for "Hamilton" look like child's play.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has officially locked in the details of his eight-week BROADWAY run this fall at the 960-seat WALTER KERR THEATRE starting in OCTOBER. 

To battle scalpers, the show will employ TICKETMASTER’s new VERIFIED FAN tech — fans register to buy tickets in advance (typically 48 hours before an on-sale), allowing TICKETMASTER time to evaluate requests and eliminate ones believed to be connected to scalpers via proprietary technology. The service then sends out unique codes to individual fans that enable them to purchase tickets during a general on-sale.

For "SPRINGSTEEN On BROADWAY," the singer is expected to perform songs drawn from all eras of his career, interspersed with readings of his best-selling memoir "Born To Run."

Stated SPRINGSTEEN, “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.”

It also seems likely he will perform songs from a long-anticipated, untitled solo album, which he discussed before his 2016-17 tour with the E STREET BAND around the 35th anniversary of his 1980 album “The River.” 

“SPRINGSTEEN On BROADWAY” begins previews OCT. 3rd ahead of an OCT. 12th opening at the KERR, where the show runs through NOVEMBER 26th. Registration for tickets, to be priced from $75 to $850, begins today and ends AUGUST 27th, with sales starting to verified fans on AUGUST 30th.

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