Helen Shaw reviews Des McAnuff’s reanimation of the 1993 Broadway musical, derived from Pete Townshend’s beautiful 1969 album.
Or, rather, we’re trying to be there again. Which “there”—the seventies? the nineties?—may depend on your age. It will also depend on whether your “Tommy” preferences lean toward the rawness of the band’s concerts or toward Broadway’s glossy, show-and-also-tell approach. Is it a good idea to act out the lyrics of a song about a mystical drugged-out prostitute? Responses will vary. Either way, now at the Nederlander, nostalgia is being delivered by brute force.
Maybe old people used to play with tables, the young will think. They made do with so little. And this struck me as the problem throughout. The production, more a reanimation than a revival, seems to think that there’s no point in showing us the pinball machine since surely we remember it.
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