The boss is coming back to Broadway, Bruce Springsteen.

Springsteen on Broadway will open on June 26th at the St. James Theatre.

As of now, it will be the first show to reopen on Broadway since the pandemic shut theaters down last March.

Proof of vaccination will be required to attend. Wonder how that's going to go. Also in

New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a mega concert for 60,000 people in Central Park

as part of a homecoming week to show that the city is back from the pandemic. The concert is tentatively set for August 21st,

and no artists have been announced just yet. All right, Joe, this is big, sort of, except for the

proof of vaccination. How's that going to work? Well, okay, so this out works. It's going to be really

complicated. You show that you've been vaccinated. they let you in. So I don't know how they're going to work through that. But yeah, especially, you know, you're getting those theaters. They're pretty tight. I think everybody would be a lot more comfortable with that. But we'll let everybody sort through that the way they want to sort through it. Free enterprise. I mean, do you, you know,

it's your property. You can do what you want to do. But Willie, the bigger news, very exciting.

Bruce Springsteen coming to Broadway, doing it quickly. And then, of course, the big concert in August.

Great news. New York City, open for business, open for music, open for the arts this summer.

Yeah, and how fitting that Springsteen would lead the way back. I think you've seen the show,

Joe. It is one of the most moving performances I've ever watched in any setting, whether it's

Broadway or a concert or whatever. Now, granted, I'm a kid from New Jersey, so he is our

music god. But the intimacy of that show and the quiet of that show, as opposed to his big

stadium shows where you're singing along with Thunder Road. And in fact, the ushers kind of have to

come in when you sit down at this Springsteen show and say, this is not a stand up and cheer,

stand up and sing-along kind of show. It's listening to his autobiographical story. And it's just so

powerful. And I think, like I say, so fitting that it's Springsteen who's going to bring Broadway

back. In June, the rest of Broadway will return in September, but he'll be there starting in about a month.

Well, it's really exciting.

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