Christipher Bonanos

Let me just say it plainly: There's no weak link in the cast, all night. Bareilles has a light tinkly playfulness in the funny moments-I'm thinking of that line that Joanna Gleason reportedly gave Sondheim, 'This is ridiculous, what I am I doing here, I'm in the wrong story'-that almost suggests that she's taking it easy up there, and then her big mezzo-soprano voice comes around the corner and knocks you back in your chair. Miller as the Witch occasionally seems a little distanced from the rest of the cast-her 'Stay With Me' feels discrete, a showy solo concert turn rather than a part fully blended into the whole. But it's a good concert turn.

But there were a few tweaks and alterations reflecting the moment, particularly around the beginning and end. 'We're all unmasked, sitting next to each other,' Springsteen said, joyfully, near the top of the show. He's been lucky, he noted: his people are healthy, with no real crises. But still, he added: 'Seventy-one years on the planet, I've never seen anything like this.'