Photo by Leah Bouchier-Hayes
(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- Hank Azaria and the EZ Street Band are coming to Music Box at the Borgata on Saturday, August 23, 2025. The show is truly 'A Springsteen Celebration': a joyful, reverential evening of incredible music, storytelling, audience interaction and hero worship. And it's all for charity, with net proceeds benefiting The Four Through Nine Foundation, founded by Azaria and committed to social justice, education and recovery causes. Showtime is 8:00pm.
Azaria is an acclaimed voice artist, perhaps best known for his decades of work on The Simpsons. Now he’s using his voice in a new and different way, and having a blast entertaining people in a live, concert setting. He spent months creating an impression of Bruce’s distinctive speaking cadence and singing ‘voice’ to conceive the tribute show.
The tribute is a labor of love for Azaria, a life-long Springsteen fan. Azaria is an acclaimed voice artist, perhaps best known for his decades of work on The Simpsons. Now he’s using his voice in a new and different way, and having a blast entertaining people in a live, concert setting. Azaria spent months creating an impression of Bruce’s distinctive speaking cadence and singing ‘voice’ to conceive the tribute show.
As the Six-time Emmy Award winner, Screen Actors Guild Award winner, and Tony Award nominee told Rolling Stone, “I think of it as a theatrical performance,” he says. “I’m staying in character as Bruce even though I’m telling stories about myself. It’s a performance piece, but I’m not a Bruce impersonator.”
Tickets start at $39 and are available for purchase online. Music Box at the Borgata is located at One Borgata Way in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
“I tell stories about myself, as Bruce, on the night,” he continued in the Rolling Stone interview. “Some of them are what a song means to me. Some of them are just kind of repeating the way Bruce introduced the songs. Some of them are the back stories of how the songs were written that I found fascinating. It creates this evening of theater, of trying to be the best Springsteen band we can be and trying to mimic his vocal and the E Street Band sound as closely as we can. But I’ve never worked harder to prepare for any role I’ve ever done than I did for this.”
Net proceeds from the concerts benefit The Four Through Nine Foundation, which was founded by Azaria and is committed to social justice, education and recovery causes — “I can't think of a better way to spend my time and use my passion for voices than playing these songs for a crowd that loves them and to lovingly pay tribute to Bruce, while raising money for folks who need it.”
The Birthday Party Surprise: About nine months ago “I had the crazy idea that I would like to sing some Springsteen songs to surprise people at my 60th birthday party.” So Azaria called his son’s former jazz piano teacher, Adam Kromelow, who played in a Genesis tribute band, and asked him if he could put together a band. “At first I wasn't sure I could capture Bruce’s singing voice– talking like him is no problem, I mean, that’s my day job!”
Azaria got obsessed with singing as exactly like Bruce as he could. He practiced every day for about 6 months, trying songs, abandoning them, circling back, and each time feeling like he was getting closer and closer to actually sounding a lot like his boyhood idol. About 4 months into this obsession, after driving his wife and son nearly insane with his constant “scream singing” around the house, “something ‘unlocked’ in my voice– I kind of couldn't believe how Bruce-like it sounded!”
Azaria recently partnered with Soul Focused Group to create the Human Solidarity Project – a nonprofit initiative that fosters change by providing opportunities and resources to communities in need. Azaria also sits on the board for DREAM Charter Schools which serve thousands of children across East Harlem and the Bronx through a network of free, extended-day, extended-year, and community sports-based youth development programs.
