Bruce Returns to Broadway With a Lavish Sassy New Musical

Bruce Springsteen is returning to Broadway! Madhouse Magazine was given an exclusive sneak preview of the show and we are sharing all the shocking details with you.  

The original broadway run consisted of music and spoken word. We are now confirming that for this run, Bruce will be staging a lavish Broadway musical complete with drag queens, dance numbers and ‘Jazz Hands’. 

Bruce will be doing ‘The Best of Broadway’ and has even written a few new musical numbers with cowriters Tommy Tune, Harvey Fierstein and Andrew Lloyd Weber. Rex Reed of the NY Times wrote: “If you’ve been low, Bruce on Broadway may be just the thing to get you back on your feet! Bruce brings sass, dignity and vocal authority to a part he has seemingly been training all his life to play.”

The show starts off with ‘Hello Dolly’, then continues with songs from ‘A Chorus Line’, ‘Cats’ and ‘Hedgwick & The Angry Inch’. The showstopper before intermission is a Tribute to Ethel Merman. Bruce & guests perform ‘No Business Like Show Business’, ‘Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair’, and ‘Its De-Lovely’.

During intermission Bruce and the puppets of Avenue Q read excerpts from his 2016 autobiography ‘Born To Run’. The show continues with a tap dancing duet with Tommy Tune and Bruce, who has been studying tap for over 3 years in preparation for this big moment.  Next up, the entire ensemble performs another dance number from ‘Bring Da Noise, Bring Da Funk’.

The show comes to a crescendo with ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’ from ‘Evita’. For the finale, Bruce performs a tear jerking version of ‘Tomorrow’ from Annie, which brings the house down. 

The show, “Springsteen on Broadway,” will run five nights a week, Tuesday to Saturday, at the St. James, the rose-and-gold-decorated jewel box on West 44th Street. The official opening is set for June 26. All proceeds of the show will go directly into Bruce’s pocket.