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Re: Tommy on stage
There is only *one* TOMMY and it was released in 1969.
AEB~
From: "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: thewho@igtc.com
To: thewho@igtc.com, relayers@yahoogrous.com
Subject: Tommy on stage
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:32:58 +0000
Speaking of PW, it looks like TOMMY will be available this summer for folks
in the US Northeast. Article excerpt below:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/playbill/20030318/en_playbill/78499
Berkshire Fest Has Chamberlain, Schwartz, New Looks at 'Assassins, The
Who's Tommy'
In the smaller Unicorn Theatre, the Tony-winning The Who's Tommy will get a
new look a decade after its success on Broadway. The Who's "rock opera"
album-about a catatonic boy who survives an abusive, loveless childhood to
become a pinball-playing, guru-like celebrity-was adapted by the Who's Pete
Townshend and director Des McAnuff into a stage musical. It ran for more
than two years on Broadway and won Tonys for McAnuff's direction and
Townsend's score, in a tie with Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman.
The show has also become famous for the number of its many young cast
members who went on to greater stage fame, including Michael Cerveris
(Titanic, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Romain Fruge (The Full Monty), Norm
Lewis (Side Show, Amour), Alice Ripley (Side Show, The Rocky Horror Show),
Jonathan Dokuchitz (The Boys from Syracuse, The Look of Love) and Michael
McElroy (Violet, The Wild Party). Jared Coseglia will direct the new
production, which runs July 16-Aug. 2.
keets
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