{"id":29326,"date":"2024-04-22T15:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-22-1993-the-whos-tommy-opened-on-broadway\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:02:53","slug":"on-this-day-april-22-1993-the-whos-tommy-opened-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-22-1993-the-whos-tommy-opened-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, April 22, 1993: &#8216;The Who\u2019s Tommy&#8217; opened on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-22\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, April 22, 1993 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Who<\/strong>\u2019s Tommy <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The musical was an adaptation of the band\u2019s 1969 rock opera. It was directed by <strong>Des McAnuff<\/strong>, with the book, music and lyrics by The Who\u2019s <strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The musical follows a young boy named Tommy, who, after witnessing his father murder his mother\u2019s lover, becomes deaf, dumb and blind. Despite this, he becomes an unlikely celebrity due to his pinball-playing skills and eventually inspires a cult following.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show, which closed on June 17, 1995, won five Tony Awards, including Best Direction for McAnuff and Best Original Score for Townshend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After a successful run in Chicago, a new reimagining of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Who\u2019s Tommy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> opened at Broadway\u2019s Nederlander Theatre in March 2024, again directed by McAnuff. Tickets <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tommythemusical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>are on sale now<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, April 22, 1993 &#8230; The Who\u2019s Tommy opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre in New York. The musical was an adaptation of the band\u2019s 1969 rock opera. It was directed by Des McAnuff, with the book, music and lyrics by The Who\u2019s Pete Townshend. The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-22-1993-the-whos-tommy-opened-on-broadway\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}