{"id":29801,"date":"2024-06-26T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-whos-tommy-to-play-final-broadway-performance-in-july\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:02:59","slug":"the-whos-tommy-to-play-final-broadway-performance-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-whos-tommy-to-play-final-broadway-performance-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Who\u2019s Tommy&#8217; to play final Broadway performance in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-26\/M_TheWhosTommy_010423.png\" alt><figcaption>courtesy of The Who&#8217;s Tommy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tommythemusical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Who\u2019s Tommy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is ready to say goodbye to Broadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The musical, based on the\u00a0<strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong>-penned\u00a0rock opera, is set to play its final show at the Nederlander Theatre on July 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The production was a reimagining of the 1993 original staging of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Tommy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.\u00a0It opened on March 28, and is closing after 132 performances and 20 previews.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But there will still be chances for fans to catch the latest iteration of\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Who&#8217;s Tommy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. It\u2019s set to launch a national tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, in the fall of 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Based on The Who\u2019s 1969 album and 1975 film, the original production of\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Tommy\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">opened at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California, on July 1, 1992. It opened on Broadway on April 22, 1993, and closed on June 17, 1995. It won five Tony Awards, including Best Direction for\u00a0<strong>Des McAnuff\u00a0<\/strong>and Best Original Score for<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Townshend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The latest production 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>courtesy of The Who&#8217;s Tommy The Who\u2019s Tommy\u00a0is ready to say goodbye to Broadway. The musical, based on the\u00a0Pete Townshend-penned\u00a0rock opera, is set to play its final show at the Nederlander Theatre on July 21. The production was a reimagining of the 1993 original staging of Tommy.\u00a0It opened on March<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-whos-tommy-to-play-final-broadway-performance-in-july\/\">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\/29801"}],"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=29801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}