The run closed June 17, 1995
- Opened
- April 22, 1993
- Closed
- June 17, 1995
- Performances
- 899
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 20th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Who\ 2 more that season
| 1997 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2024 | Nederlander Theatre Revival | 132 perf. |
Who was in it51 named
Paul Dobie
Jody Gelb
Pam Klinger
Timothy Warmen
Adrian Bailey
Raquela Burt
Kevin Cahoon
Steven Cates
Laura Dean
Aaron Ellis
Peter C Ermides
Matt Farnsworth
Angela Garrison
Travis Jordan Greisler
Kimberly Hannon
Emily Hart
Lacey Hornkohl
Lon Hoyt
Jolie Jenkins
J Mark Mcvey
Sarah Miles
Jessica Molaskey
Jeanine Morick
Jim Newman
April Nixon
Tom Rocco
Michael Tapley
Christy Tarr
Clarke Thorell
Alton F White
Matt Zarley
Michael Zeidman
Nicole Zeidman
22 of these 51 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters11 roles recorded
Michael Seelbach Tommy
Erika Greene Mrs. Walker
Michael J. Vergoth Captain Walker
Rob Krahenbuhl Uncle Ernie
Peter Connelly Cousin Kevin
Tracey Lee The Gypsy
Destan Owens Hawker
Matthew G. Brown Specialist
Keith Bocklet Lover
Jason Reiff John Houfe Pinball Lads
Jackie Crawford Sally Simpson
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Des McAnuff
- Choreographer
- Wayne Cilento
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 5 from 11 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
The Who's Tommy is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Pete Townshend and a book by Townshend and Des McAnuff. It is based on the 1969 rock opera Tommy by The Who.
Original Broadway Cast, “Pinball Wizard,” by Pete Townshend, in The Who’s Tommy.
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 286- The Who’s Tommy, a rock musical based on the film Tommy, bows at the St. James Theater and plays for 899 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 32
- In 1992 Cerveris was cast in the title role in The Who’s Tommy, a show that combined musical theater and rock-and-roll. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 110
- The Who’s Tommy 900 performances Opened April 22, 1993 Closed June 17, 1995 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 457
- Russell Harvard played the title role in The Who’s Tommy at Maryland’s Open Circle Theatre in 2016, appeared off-Broadway in Craig Lucas’s I Was Most Alive with You in 2018, and on Broadway in Sam Gold’s King Lear (2019). Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 218
- produced acclaimed revivals of Guys and Dolls, making a star of Nathan Lane, The Who’s Tommy, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Matthew Broderick. Razzle Dazzle the Battle For Broadway Michael Riedel 2015 Simon Schuster Limited, p. 411
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The Who\ at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.