Bruce Springsteen heads to Broadway

The Boss is coming to Broadway — but he’s ditching the E Street Band.

Bruce Springsteen said Wednesday on his website that he plans to make his Broadway debut onstage this fall at the Walter Kerr Theatre in a solo show in which he performs songs from his career, interspersed with readings of his best-selling memoir Born to Run.

Springsteen on Broadway begins previews on October 3 ahead of an October 12 opening at the intimate 960-seat venue. The eight-week run is expected to play through November 26. Springsteen will perform five shows a week.

“I wanted to do some shows that were as personal and as intimate as possible,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said in a statement. “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.”

The 67-year-old singer-songwriter becomes the latest and biggest artist in years to book a Broadway concert. In Springsteen’s new book, he reveals that his first marriage — to Julianne Phillips — caused him mental anguish; that he had surgery for cervical-disc problems on the left side of his neck; and that he was depressed earlier in his 60s.

source: AFP