Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:28:10 -0400
From: "Brian Wright" <lump_16@hotmail.com>
I'm going to see a showing of Tommy next Sunday with a friend of mine.
All she knows about Tommy is that's he's a deaf dumb and blind kid who can
play a mean pinball.
I've never seen the play before so if I play the CD on the way down before
the show will that be enough for my friend to get the gist of whats goin on
in the play?
Or do I need to find a Tommy for Dummies website between now and then?
It sounds like you might not know that the play differs from the
album. It was significantly reworked to make it a more coherent,
flowing story. For more info, you might like a review I wrote in
1994 of the touring version of the show at