'The Who's Tommy' Broadway Review: Still A Sensation
Deadline review of Broadway's 'The Who's Tommy'
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Deadline review of Broadway's 'The Who's Tommy'
Des McAnuff reimagines his legendary stage musical, with a cast that sings their faces off.
NEW YORK — Pete Townshend’s prescient 1969 rock opera “Tommy,” a horrifying if ultimately transcendent howl of anger and anguish at the damage wrought on the boomer generation by their war-scarred parents, has returned to Broadway in a new, born-in-Chicago production from director Des McAnuff that will sock you right in the gut. Many a replay can be expected at the Nederlander Theatre, ...
Des McAnuff's direction of the Pete Townshend musical memoir reaches for the hankies instead of going for the jugular
The exhilarating revival of Pete Townshend’s seminal rock opera, which opened Thursday night at the Nederlander Theater after nearly three decades away, really is an espresso martini of a show after a chamomile tea season of musicals. Everything about it shakes you awake and leaves you buzzed: