{"id":29675,"date":"2024-06-06T18:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-6-1993-the-whos-tommy-wins-five-tony-awards\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:02:35","slug":"on-this-day-june-6-1993-the-whos-tommy-wins-five-tony-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-6-1993-the-whos-tommy-wins-five-tony-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 6, 1993: &#8216;The Who\u2019s Tommy&#8217; wins five Tony awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-06\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, June 6, 1993 &#8230;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Broadway musical adaption of\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Who<\/strong>\u2019s Tommy\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">won five awards at the 47th annual Tony Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Based on the band\u2019s 1969 album and 1975 film of the same name, the musical earned a Best Original Score Tony for The Who&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong>, as well as Best Direction of a Musical for\u00a0<strong>Des McAnuff<\/strong>. In total it was nominated for 10 Tonys, including Best Musical, losing out to\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Kiss of the Spider Woman<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">The Who\u2019s<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Tommy\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">opened on Broadway on April 22, 1993, and closed on June 17, 1995, after 899 performances. It was also staged in Canada, Germany and the U.K.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A new reimagining of the musical, featuring a cast of 28, a nine-piece band and brand new staging, opened at the Nederlander Theatre in New York in March. It was nominated for a Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 6, 1993 &#8230;\u00a0 The Broadway musical adaption of\u00a0The Who\u2019s Tommy\u00a0won five awards at the 47th annual Tony Awards. Based on the band\u2019s 1969 album and 1975 film of the same name, the musical earned a Best Original Score Tony for The Who&#8217;s\u00a0Pete Townshend, as well as<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-6-1993-the-whos-tommy-wins-five-tony-awards\/\">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\/29675"}],"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=29675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}