Productions3 on Broadway
| 1927 | Gaiety Theatre Original. January 10, 1927 · predates this show | 232 performances |
| 1933 | Forrest Theatre Revival. August 7, 1933 · Alan Bunce · predates this show | 24 performances |
| 1993 | St. James Theatre Revival. April 22, 1993 · Des McAnuff | 899 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International The Who's Tommy matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
In the literature28 passages
On April 22, 1993, this theatre saw the Broadway premiere of The Who's Tommy, the legendary rock opera by Pete Townshend (with additional music and lyrics by fellow Who rockers John Entwistle and Keith Moon), directed by Des McAnuff. The show dazzled critics and audiences with its multimedia effects and driving force. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p282
Lone with Dreamgirls, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Tommy Tune’s other visual extravaganza, Nine, Grand Hotel was one of the truly towering directorial achievements of the last twenty-five years. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p144
ROCK MUSICAL. A musical that includes a significant amount of rock music in its score. Notable examples include Hair (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1971), Little Shop of Horrors (1982), The Who’s Tommy (1993), Rent (1996), Mamma Mia! (2001), and Spring Awakening (2006). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p335
The success on Broadway of British rock operas (Jesus Christ Superstar, 1971; Evita, 1979; Tommy, 1993) book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p438
The !Vlzo's Tommy was originally marketed as a rock album. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p652
The Who's Tommy was a concept album in which an implied story linked the separate song tracks, and later became a Broadway musical in 1993 with The Who absent from the performance. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p655
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