Re: The Who via The Moody Blu...

[Alan McKendree <amck@eden.com>]

On Fri, 27 Jan 1995 Jeisrael@aol.com wrote:

>   I think
> TOMMY is probably at its best in the Broadway format (almost anyone who's
> seen the show would agree with me)

Personally, no, I'd have to go with it as performed by the original
band members onstage.

 and I believe that he will revolutionize
> Broadway.  50 years before TOMMY opened at the St. James, OKLAHOMA opened
> there.  It was "the new" Broadway musical.  I believe TOMMY is "the new"
> Broadway musical.

This I do agree with.  Traditional theatre and rock have been
co-existing for a long time, with various and variously-successful
attempts to merge the two.  I think _Tommy_ is the most successful
attempt to date.  I expect to see a some other attempts (I remember
hearing of a proposal to put Hotel California onstage...), probably
with less success.  But I hope and suspect that _Tommy_ will be judged
as a historic mutation point in the history of theatre.

> I respect your opinions, but please see it from the other side, from the
> perspective of one who BECAME a The Who fan from being a Broadway fan taken
> by TOMMY.  

Best wishes on your voyage of discovery (would have said "amazing
journey," but it's been done.)

Alan

As a matter of fact, I could have went to any school I wanted -- MIT,
Yale, Harvard.            --Joseph Robert Zipay, on alt.fan.letterman