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Broadway Review: The Who’s “Tommy” at the Nederlander Theatre (Closed on Sunday, July 21, 2024)

April 7, 2024 | Broadway, Music, the ally > | Adam Jacobs as Captain Walker, Afra Hines, Alexandra Matteo, Ali Louis Bourzgui as Tommy, Aliah James, Alison Luff as Mrs. Walker, Bespoke Theatricals, Bobby Conte as Cousin Kevin, Brett Michael Lockley, Cecilia Ann Popp, choreographer Lorin Latarro, Christina Sajous as The Acid Queen, costume design by Sarafina Bush, Daniel Quadrino, David Paul Kidder, Dee Tomasetta, Des McAnuff, Evan Zimmerman, Haley Gustafson, Jenna Nicole Schoen, Jeremiah Alsop, John Ambrosino as Uncle Ernie, Joseph Verlezza, lighting design by Amanda Zieve, Lily Kren, Mark Mitrano, Matthew Murphy, Mike Cannon, music direction and additional orchestrations by Rick Fox, music supervision and additional arrangements by Ron Melrose, Nathan Lucrezio, New York Theatre Reviews, Olive Ross-Kline, orchestrations by Steve Margoshes, Pete Townshend, projection design by Peter Nigrini, Quinten Kusheba, Reagan Pender, Reese Levine, Ronnie S. Bowman Jr., set design by David Korins, Sheldon Henry, sound design by Gareth Owen, Tara Rubin Casting/Merri Sugarman CSA, Tassy Kirbas, The Nederlander Theatre, The Who's "Tommy", Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tripp Phillips, Tyler James Eisenreich, wig and hair design by Charles LaPointe

There are very few words not sung but spoken in the rock musical “Tommy,” but three that might be relevant are “Brilliant, wasn’t it?” spoken by a local lad that happens to be part of a larger audience, amazed, while watching Tommy play his first game of pinball in a pool hall. Unfortunately, they are not the three words that…

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Broadway Review: “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

“Call the DJ, call the station/Dancing all across the nation/Here for every generation/Now you know your queen is back.” – “The Queen Is Back” by Donna Summer The fact is that she never really left, and the proof is that her music is alive on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre in the new jukebox bio-musical “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.”…

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