Nearly all of it works beautifully.
A fight leaves the lover dead, and Tommy, who saw it all, traumatized.
The teens all but explode in an feverish dance of elation and slack-jawed wonderment.
Ali Louis Bourzgui, ‘The Who’s Tommy’ on BroadwayMatthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
Theres even some Ivo van Hove-ish mixed media tossed in for good measure.
Matching Nigrinis time-jumping projections from Blitz to V.R.
At every epoch, Bush sends in black sleek-helmeted soldier-droog-robot toadies to make any amount of mischief.
Alison Luff, Olive Ross-Kline, Adam JacobsMatthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
No weak links in the rest of the cast either.
but gives the character and the sultry song a wounded depth that feels thoroughly of the moment.
When Townshend wrote the albums central question Can you hear me?
