“If I can’t have your love, I’ll become you.”

He started with Elvis, and ended with the Lord’s Prayer.

In between he took us inside the arc, elegantly narrating the story of a life-long love affair between a gifted, hard-working, artful storyteller and his audience, a relationship he likens to magic. Also, “authentic lying”.

One plus one equals three, says Bruce Springsteen, standing dressed in black on a Broadway stage, backed up only by a line of black footlockers, a piano, microphone stand, guitar, and…