{"id":491502,"date":"2019-10-21T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=901956"},"modified":"2019-10-21T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:34:56","slug":"the-whos-tommy-returning-to-broadway-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/the-whos-tommy-returning-to-broadway-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Who\u2019s \u2018Tommy\u2019 Returning to Broadway in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TheWho.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-who\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-who\" data-tag=\"the-who\">The Who<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tommy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tommy\" data-tag=\"tommy\">Tommy<\/a><\/em> is returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\">Broadway<\/a> in 2021. The musical adaptation of the Who\u2019s 1969 rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard premiered on Broadway in 1993 and closed two years later after 889 performances. Along the way, it racked up five Tony Awards and proved that rock can work on the Broadway stage, paving the way for countless shows that followed.<\/p>\n<p>Like the 1993 original, this new version of <em>Tommy<\/em> will be directed by Des McAnuff. \u201cOur new production of <em>Tommy<\/em> will be a reinvention aimed directly at today,\u201d McAnuff said in a statement. \u201c<em>Tommy<\/em> combines myth and spectacle in a way that truly soars. The key question with any musical is \u2018Does the story sing?\u2019 and this one most certainly does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZdOs7veTMRk?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He continues: \u201cTommy is the anti-hero ground zero. He is the boy who not only rejects adulthood like Holden Caulfield in <em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em>, 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 <em>Tommy<\/em> exists all too comfortably in the 21st century. In fact, time may finally have caught up to Tommy Walker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original <em>Tommy<\/em> album&nbsp;turned the Who into one of the most popular rock bands in the world when it landed in stores 50 years ago. The Seattle Opera produced a version of it in 1971 and the following year the London Symphony Orchestra staged it with a special guests.<\/p>\n<p><!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p>Director Ken Russell turned it into a campy movie in 1975 starring Roger Daltrey, Ann Margaret, Elton John, Tina Turner and Eric Clapton. The musical opened at the La Jolla Playhouse in 1992 and came to Broadway a year later. The story has morphed a little with each telling, but each time it centers around a traumatized youth that loses the ability to see, hear and talk. He becomes a champion pinball player before starting his own cult.<\/p>\n<p>The producers of this upcoming Broadway revival have yet to say exactly when in 2021 the show will open or who will be in it, but they point fans to a <a href=\"https:\/\/tommythemusical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">new website<\/a> and promise that additional info will come later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-who-tommy-broadway-901956\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Who\u2019s Tommy is returning to Broadway in 2021. The musical adaptation of the Who\u2019s 1969 rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard premiered on Broadway in 1993 and closed two years later after 889 performances. Along the way, it racked up five Tony Awards and proved that rock can work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 02:42:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}