The Who’s first rock opera, Tommy, will be back on Broadway in 2021.
Des McAnuff, who will again direct the show, calls the new production "a reinvention aimed directly at today. Tommy combines myth and spectacle in a way that truly soars. The key question with any musical is ‘Does the story sing?’ and this one most certainly does."
He goes on at length about the show. "Tommy is the anti-hero ground zero. He is the boy who not only rejects adulthood like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, but existence itself. He becomes lost in the universe as he stares endlessly and obsessively into the mirror at his own image. This gives our story a powerful resonance today as it seems like the whole world is staring into the black mirror. The story of Tommy exists all too comfortably in the 21st century. In fact, time may finally have caught up to Tommy Walker.”
Tommy ran for 889 performances on the Great White Way from 1993 to 1995.
Pete Townshend took part in a benefit performance of Tommy at the La Jolla [pr: HOY-a] Playhouse in La Jolla, California on October 14th.
Eddie Vedder joined The Who Saturday night in his hometown of Seattle. He took the stage for “The Punk and the Godfather” off of Quadrophenia. The Who wrap up the 2019 leg of their Moving On! tour Thursday in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl, their third show there this month. They will resume it in March in England.