He rises to fame as a pinball wizard and eventually becomes a cult leader, a position he finally rejects. Tommy is the story of a “deaf, dumb and blind kid” who, traumatised by an act of violence as a child, suffers from a kind of locked-in syndrome that is never adequately explained. It wasn’t until 1992 that the Who’s Pete Townshend adapted it into a Broadway musical, for better and for worse. Over the years, it would transmogrify into an increasingly baroque series of symphonic concerts and then a 1975 film directed by the king of excess, Ken Russell. It started life in 1968 as a concept album, and arguably became the defining example of rock opera. H ow did we get here from there? The Who’s Tommy, like its central character, has taken possibly the most circuitous route in the history of musical theatre to arrive at St Kilda’s Palais Theatre, in an Australian premiere production by Victorian Opera.
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