Bruce Springsteen Finds "A Sense Of Place"

SUNRISE, FLA.; "Don't make me come out there and slaaaap that tan off ya." Bruce Springsteen's warnings to potentially restless crowds tend to have a local flavor. In September 1995, he began his tour in support of The Ghost of Tom Joad by telling a Los Angeles crowd to turn off their cellular phones. Here at the 3,968-seat Sunrise Musical Theater, in early December, some too shows later, he's still asking for quiet. What's changed is that a show he admits was initially "austere" is now a kaleidoscope of jokes, shaggy-dog stories, paeans to cunnilingus and, yes, plenty of the brooding, socially conscious fare that marks the album.