Bruce Springsteen on Broadway: Saturday night with Barack and Michelle Obama

Celebs, senators and sports stars have made the scene at "Springsteen on Broadway" since the music play opened in October at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City.

But the Saturday, March 3 performance took the audience-spotting factor up a notch.

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama watched the show from a balcony seat. Barack Obama gave star Bruce Springsteen, a Freehold native, an affirmative point after show, amid applause and picture taking during the bows.

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The Obamas “received almost as big an ovation as Bruce (and) were with Craig Robinson and Valerie Jarrett,” according Politico.

"Barack Obama checked in on Springsteen on Broadway last night," tweeted Martin Cedzidlo of Fort Lee, with a pic of the Prez.

The Obamas had a bit of a preview before they saw the show. Springsteen gave Barack Obama a copy of play version of "Born in the U.S.A." Obama named it as one of his favorite songs of 2017.

"Not out yet, but the blues version in his Broadway show is the best!" said Obama in the Facebook post.

In January of 2017, in the last days of the Obama presidency, Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa performed in what now appears to be an early version of "Springsteen on Broadway" at the White House for the Obamas and the staff. The performance was 15-songs long, the same number as the Broadway play, and it also consisted of dialogue by Springsteen.

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In 2016, Obama bestowed upon Springsteen the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest honor for a civilian, at the White House.

“He was sprung from a cage out on Highway 9,” said Obama at the time. “A quiet kid from Jersey just trying to make sense of the temple of dreams and the mysteries down in his hometown: pool halls, bars, girls and cars, alters and assembly lines and for decades, Bruce Springsteen has brought us all along on a journey consumed with the bargains between ambition and injustice, pleasure and pain, the simple glories and the scattered heartbreak of everyday life in American.”

Springsteen and Scialfa joined the Obamas and Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks on a yacht cruise in French Polynesia last spring.

Steven Spielberg and wife Kate Capshaw, Hanks, Tina Fey, Edward Norton, Jon Stewart and wife Tracey, Ralph Lauren, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Leslie Moonves and wife Julie Chen, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Winfrey and Alex Rodriguez are just a few of the celebs of have attended the hit Broadway show, which ramped up on Wednesday, Feb. 28 after a hiatus.

A request for comment from Springsteen's rep was not replied to as of press time.

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