The Boss: Bruce Springsteen Tribute Show
Globe Theatre
March 6, 2021
Reviewed by Damian Thorne
Covid-19 has ruined the nationwide tour of The Boss Tribute Band, with shows being cancelled, postponed and generally up-in-the-air.
In true Springsteen style, this group decided to give a finger to coronavirus and push on with a special show at Palmy's Globe Theatre. I was lucky enough to be invited, taking my friend Catheryn as an excitable plus one.
Nobody had been asked to pay, instead donations were called on for the Mental Health Foundation. This was no longer about making money, it was about getting the show on stage, with the added layer of live streaming it to all the centres which missed it, and the world at large.
All volunteering – there was live streaming by Spaceship Streaming, an outstanding sound design by Steve Poulton, and a guy called Tank putting on a light show, the likes of which the Globe has never seen before.