The Who’s Tommy
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Young Tommy Walker witnesses his father murder his mother’s lover and is told by his parents that he didn’t see or hear anything. The trauma renders Tommy deaf, dumb, and blind. Abused by his cousin and uncle, Tommy retreats into an inner world until he discovers a miraculous talent for pinball. His pinball wizardry makes him famous, and when a mirror finally shatters his psychological prison, Tommy is hailed as a me…
- Opened
- 1993
- Performances
- 899
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Recordings 1 album held
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The Who’s Tommy, a rock musical based on the film Tommy, bows at the St. James Theater and plays for 899 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p32
In 1992 Cerveris was cast in the title role in The Who’s Tommy, a show that combined musical theater and rock-and-roll. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p110
The Who’s Tommy 900 performances Opened April 22, 1993 Closed June 17, 1995 book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p457
Russell Harvard played the title role in The Who’s Tommy at Maryland’s Open Circle Theatre in 2016, appeared off-Broadway in Craig Lucas’s I Was Most Alive with You in 2018, and on Broadway in Sam Gold’s King Lear (2019). book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p218
produced acclaimed revivals of Guys and Dolls, making a star of Nathan Lane, The Who’s Tommy, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Matthew Broderick. book:razzle-dazzle-the-battle-for-broadway-michael-riedel-2015-simon-schuster-limited#p411
Their biggest problem, he said, was that they were up against The Who’s Tommy, which was coming into New York on the strength of rave reviews from the La Jolla Playhouse. book:singular-sensation-the-triumph-of-broadway-the-triumph-of-michael-riedel-first-a#p166
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