The theater world has buzzed with anticipation since legendary musician Bruce Springsteen announced a solo residency performance on Broadway’s intimate Walter Kerr Theatre. The 960-seat venue has had fans incredibly anxious. Springsteen on Broadway is set to open this fall and is expected to be sold out every night out of each week’s performance. Even as Springsteen extended his debut Broadway concerts until February 3rd, fans are still worried about not being able to get tickets in competition with ticket bots.
This was rightfully so and became clear even with the extensive measures Springsteen and Ticketmaster took to avoid high-volume ticket trading. In order to get tickets for the Broadway shows, you had to pre-register in advance in order to enter a lottery that might get you a special code into a special online room where you might have the possibility of acquiring a ticket. Complicated? Apparently not enough.
With the opening of ticket sales on August 30, fans were immediately surprised and disappointed to see that there were already tickets selling from $2,000 to over $6,000 on third party ticketing sites such as Stubhub. The official Springsteen on Broadway site offers another ticketing sale date on September 7, with hopes to give fans a chance to score the coveted seats for a decent price. The site advises consumers to purchase only from Ticketmaster, as they cannot guarantee the validity of tickets purchased from other websites. In an effort to expose scalpers, Ticketmaster is using a Verified Fan system to identify individual buyers from those looking to markup prices by buying in bulk and reselling.
Many people, hardcore fans or not, are excited to see Springsteen take on a more intimate stage in the spotlight. Springsteen considers the Walter Kerr Theatre the smallest venue he’d be playing in the last 40 years. Springsteen on Broadway will be an artistic rendition of Bruce’s life, utilizing the age-old tradition of musical storytelling to reach out to the audience and share something special. Being a one-man show, Springsteen will be the only voice on stage and the only hands to play the piano and guitar. He’ll be telling or singing acoustic anecdotes from his life, his work, and music. It’s expected to be one memorable experience for those who’ll get the chance to see the show.
Bruce Springsteen has had a long and successful career in the music industry. He’s sold more than 120 million records throughout the world and is considered to be one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has been the recipient of multiple awards, including 20 Grammy’s and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame among many others. Bruce Springsteen has found commercial and popular success with his thematic songwriting and distinctive vocals. Some of his most famous songs include Born in the U.S.A. and Dancing in the Dark. Springsteen continues to perform all his beloved classics to this day, and this new venture into Broadway is his way of connecting and communicating something worthwhile to his millions of admirers.
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