I saw the musical a few days ago on Broadway. The final was a big emotion believe me. I never want to cry in a theater, I do everything it’s posible not to, but it was just imposible. The crew was fantastic. That show was from another reality. Amazing
I commented on this already. But I will say so again. I live in NYC. I see a Broadway show every week, and this is one of the best I have ever seen. I saw Cabaret in its first preview with Eddie Redmayne on Monday, which was amazing. But I have to say I liked Tommy even more. PLEASE see this if you are in NYC and help make it a hit! I don't want this show to get lost in the huge number of new shows this season.
I went to Tommy on Broadway couple of weeks ago (and I see a LOT of theatre - over two dozen shows so far this year) and this production of Tommy is in my all-time top 5. One of the most spectacular things I’ve ever seen.
I'm on Long Island and I saw the first show back in 1993 at the St. James theater. Not to mention 9 concerts including the Tommy show at Forest hills with my son Tommy on fathers day 2018. Ya I'm a huge fan. Happy you enjoyed this show.
I saw it last week. I still can’t believe how beautiful it was. Great emotions. That musical is a legend for me now. One of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen.
I was blessed to work on the original launch in Toronto of Tommy with Des, Pete, and the Mirvish Family and their amazing team. As a guitar player, it was beyond amazing to see Pete in action giving music direction each day...I still have a signed original charts. Priceless.🎶🎵🎸
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Imagine, the rock (opera)album I cherished as teen becomes a Broadway play some 50+yrs later. Who would have thunk? Classic. "Long live rock...b it dead or alive!"
I'll never forget the spiritual experience I had seeing the Who play these songs in 1976 at Madison Square Garden when Keith was still playing. That album will always make people wonder it's meaning. I was so fortunate.
Seriously ? The movie is unwatchable. To be clear, The Who are the most important bands in my life. The movie is an unwatchable mess. just a mess. @@williamcrowe2576
Being a musician with a son with autism, I understood the importance and beauty of the message in Tommy, about how a computer (at that time, a pinball machine) could be a realization for an autistic boy, and then a path of union for all humanity if we learn how to see, feel and then heal ourselves.
After that short rendition I’m ready to see the whole production !!! Awesome vocals and instrumentals !!! Tommy is one of my all time favorite sets of music for the past 50 years!!!!
I didn't idolize or have very many heroes in my youth but The Who was sure 1 of them. Still are. Thk u Pete & Roger! RIP Keith & John! "Long live rock...I need it everyday!"
Roger Daltrey played Tommy in the movie, and, well, that is who I'll always picture playing the part. But it's good to see and hear Pete speaking, still (The Who played a concert at my high school in Southfield, Michigan in 1968 or '69).
They played in ann arbor 2 shows then to and i hired them with some friends. It was at the fifth demension club. Daltrey looked like he weight like 90 pounds?
I thought it was amazing that the Who would play at a high school. And yet, there it is on the Web: "The night of Nov. 22, 1967, is indelibly etched in the memories of local music fans lucky enough to nab a ticket to The Who’s performance at Southfield High School’s gym."
Gotta give it up for Ali Louis Bourzgui. The Who has been my favorite band for over 20 years, and Tommy got me into them. I’ve seen them 4 times and watched every DVD and video I could find when I was a teenager, always honing in on Tommy. I was skeptical given how associated Roger Daltrey is with the role voice of Tommy in my mind, but the second Ali started singing, I felt myself amazed, as if he was both channeling and honoring Roger’s gruffness and also making it his own. I watched this with my Mom, who got me into them when I was 15, and we were both crying tears of joy by the end and laughing at ourselves. Now we’re talking about going to New York and seeing this! It looks like an amazing production, and it warms my heart to see Pete, who got me into rock music as well as playing the guitar (which I still do every day), still out there doing what he loves and seeming really happy doing it. The Who will never cease to inspire me to live a better, more purposeful, more energized life. So cool that Pete and Ali connected to share Tommy with the world once again.
Saw it on Saturday. One word: Wow. What. An. Incredible. Show. The classic album, music and story from 1969 are drawing crowds and selling out theaters in 2024, and on Broadway! The curtain went up, the Overture kicked off, and I was enthralled. I got teary-eyed, enraptured to see it all unfolding in the magic of theater, the lighting, the settings and the performances from professionals who let you know right away this is the real deal, and these are the big boys and girls playing. And now I see several comments from those who also shed tears of joy. It's good to know I'm not alone!
i saw this show in chicago last summer TWICE because of how amazing it is. if you have the chance to see it, you absolutely should. it was the best show i’ve ever seen!!
my local HS did a production of Tommy , my kid played the young Tommy (when my son was 7) He's 18 now and an accomplished Guitarist ...I grew up on the Who....
I did as well....twice! I just saw the new one this past weekend. Itbwas beautifully staged, singers were spot on, but unless ny 73 year-old brain is embellishing my recollection of the original broadway production, this one seems a little slower and a little less edgey, but the finale still moved me. Everyone should still try to see this rock opera masterpiece!
I did too, and I thought it was actually lackluster. The movie was campy, but had an amazing cast and the band was in it. I'm a bit of a purist, and think the original album was the best, and timeless. That being said? This actually looks great and if it lasts a year I would try to see it. It's such a great story, and the music never gets old. Pete? Yeah he is old and raking in the bucks once again. Roger Daltrey does not paint a great picture of the man in his book, and I found his own biography to be boring and self centered. Just my opinions here, so please be nice with comments if you can.
It had to be a thrill for the cast to perform this medley with the legendary Pete Townsend. Not only did he create Rock Opera, but he also perfected Musical Theatre for guitar players that still resonates today..
BRILLIANT vocalist…..Such HEART and SOUL in the way he SINGS the words…..Not that Roger wasn’t brilliant too. …I first was listening to the Who when I was just 9 years old in 1971 …As a kid that age I was going into W H Smiths or Boots and buying their singles around the time Whose Next ….Like with the Beatles I later went back and listened to their earlier stuff later. ‘Let’s See Action ‘ just did something to me back then. That ending with Roger’s voice being put through that repeat echo unit with those harmonies and that acoustic guitar I would carry around inside my head right thru junior school everywhere….As a song ‘Join Together’ just blew my mind with its combination of original sounds and sheer stratospheric exuberance….And when I first heard the futuristic synth chords and power growl distortion riffs of ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ on this portable radio set upstairs radio set I remember as a kid just going crazy jumping on my parents bed like a trampoline with a Slazenger tennis racket pretending to play guitar like I was absolutely NUTS…lol,,,and this was before I even knew who Deep Purple were or Ritchie Blackmore Ah, the flashbacks.😊 Halcyon days.🎉 remember that Entwistle song -‘When I Was a Boy’ -those lyrics ..’when I was a baby, I hadn’t a care in the world. But now I’m a man my troubles fill my head. When I was five it was good to be alive but now I’m a man I wish that I was dead…and I count up all those wasted years…The hopes and the fears. The laughs and the tears, and I wonder,,, I wonder, I wonder what went wrong’….When I hear that music in my head today with those words my eyes just fill up…Sounds silly I know…But in the end,,,aloft,, there is only love ❤😢
Throughout act 1 when my family & I saw Tommy on Broadway, I actually shed a tear. I have never felt so much emotion go through me in a long time. I myself have autism, and I couldn't help but to feel sorry for Tommy when he was a kid with what he was going through. I would recommend this broadway performance to ANYONE who have never seen this performance live and in person!!
The who, one of true Legend groups from 60s - early 80s. Growing up listening to them also been few times in their concerts. Unfortunately, these Legendary rock groups won’t be replaced most of them from that era faded away. I’m 69 now, so glad I had the opportunity to listen to these awesome rock groups.
I love this with all of my heart. Tommy has brought immense joy to me and my friends and family for decades. It is the reason I started to play guitar. One of my oldest memories is watching my sister and her friend show my mom the interpretive dance routine they devised for See Me Feel Me. Townshend is such a real genius and we are so blessed to have him.
Pete is one of the best songwriters of all time, and highly underrated in this regard. The Who’s catalogue is one thing, but listen to his solo repertoire. Phenomenal!
Thank you for posting this. I just saw this on the Jimmy Fallon show and I was hoping someone would post this I enjoyed watching this tonight so thank you.
boy oh boy am I a lucky one. first time visiting NYC in a few days, and when I saw this will just be hitting the broadway I had to buy the tickets. I saw the who only once live in concert, but since I'm 35 that's only a blessing
Decades since I first heard Listening To You (as a kid with bad hearing and eyesight) and it still gives me goosebumps and chokes me up. Thanks Pete for being an inspiration in my life as an artist and a person. (Read his autobiography folks, or rather listen to the audiobook version he narrated himself. It is an amazing journey....)
Nothing less than classic. Brilliant, great, wonderful, dazzling, inventive, awesome, meaningful---classic. Thanks, Pete! Thanks, The Who! Thanks, Jimmy! Thanks to the cast and crew of "Tommy" on Broadway now! THIS is the Broadway show to see this year! Rock on!☮️❤️✌️
I was a teenager when The Who released their first record. I loved them then and saw them on their Quadrophenia tour and a few times after that. Nobody else has ever sounded as amazing as The Who.They will always be our friends.
Wonderful show! I was lucky to play the Acid Queen in a community theater production many years ago. I actually met Michael Cerveris after a Broadway performance of "Titanic". He was very gracious and we wrote to each other a couple times over the years. I also was lucky enough to go backstage and Bill Buell(original magistrate) gave myself and friend the tour. We stood on the stage and it is a memory I'll always be thankful for. I also met Anthony Barille(cousin Kevin) and Uncle Earnie. He was smoking outside the stage door. So incredible.
Having seen The Who perform Tommy at The Fillmore East, and at Woodstock, it’s uplifting see it coming to Broadway for a new generation. Mmmmy gennneration. 👏👏👏👏👏
Wow, I was 8 when Woodstock occurred. I did see Tommy in the movie theater as a teenager and had a great time with my friends. I gotta get tkts for this.
My first concert seeing the who in 1979 after Moon died, thinking I would never get to see them.. as a 19 year old, See Me Feel Me, to this day is the song that I remember from that concert.. just through the roof Goosebumps
Pete Townsend is the original mod, rocker and punk even after all these years. I love how intense his playing is. You can hear, see and feel his passion for the music.
I remember the television station played the music LISTENING TO YOU during midnight movies on weekends when I lived in KC back in '70. I remembered the music one night stoned at a midnight showing, The Kids Are All Right, in Wichita.
I’m from Colombia and I visited the city last July with my parents, I took them to this musical and it was beautiful. My father has been a huge The Who fan and although they don’t know so much English and it was their first time in the States, it was a beautiful experience. I bet this will be one of my fav memories with them ever. They were super happy, totally worth it.
Saw the show 3 times at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago last summer including one of the final performances that Pete showed up at. The audience went nuts. Seeing it again next week in NYC and can't wait!
None of the performers in this show were alive when The Who released “Tommy”. This is what it means to be a legend and have a legacy. 56 years from now, nobody will be listening to Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber…but, they will be listening to The Who.
I lived in Jersey 20 minutes from The City & Damn It! Now Tommy comes to Broadway?!? PLEASE take this on the road & go to my new home Chicago. The Who is my Number 1 favorite all time favorite band & I think I’m more of a Townsend fan. Freaking genius is an understatement.
I was fortunate enough to see the original production of Tommy on Broadway and describing it as spectacular is an understatement. Thank you Jimmy for the entertaining and informative interview with the legend Pete Townsend. 🎶❤️🎶
All those gorgeous voices (especially the harmonies and soaring vocals,) plus all the excellent musicianship. What an huge thrill for the very lucky audience!
Great performance. Its testament to the songs Pete wrote aged 24, that they still stand up to amazing new reinterpretations year after year. I saw The Who at the Albert Hall in 2000 at the inaugural TCT gig, at the end they got loads of the kids the charity was helping dancing up on the stage, to Listening to You. It was a huge moment and deeply emotional.
After 50 years of concerts I have seen them all except the Beatles! I went to this movie when it was released! As I was stoned it was fantastic! A MASTERPIECE!!!
this movie was released and it changed rock music forever! Such an amazing thing to watch and hear and fall deep into it. I never tire of it! Roger Daltrey was the man!!!
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I remember seeing the original at the Macy's parade in 1993. I've been hoping for a revival for years. Just saw it on Saturday, what a welcome jolt this show is! Ali truly owns the stage, well done! I'll be going back in May. :D
When I was a kid you *had* to have the English import version of the album. I always felt it one of the more brilliant pieces of music ever written. Still do.
That my Friends is so relevant Today as it was 50+ yrs ago. Listening to you was so powerful!!!! United we stand. Listening to you is a world Anthem. Tommy is the Genius of Pete Townsend. I wish I could see the play. Absolutely brilliant and beautiful. ❤ the Who forever
I'm 98 yrs old and still restore pinball machines. And for lack of better judgment, I will not sell my business, only because of this song.
May you live 2b 100!
Thats Amazing , which cities do you operate in?
The black woman is amaze balls!
Who’s the red head?
Good on you! I hope you take on apprentices because pinball is soooo good that these machines should be played forever!!!!
I don't throw around the term living legend too often but Pete is definitely it.
😊 oh yeah
Well, he did pen the now famous rock opera.
@@williamcrowe2576 Tommy Shaw did some also
He once sat in with the grateful dead 🍄
He sure is…now that’s a GOAT 🔥
As an old man, I kind of cried listening my youth music again.
And these performers, most of whom weren't even born then, embracing and appreciating it!
Agreed. I saw The Who in Germany 🇩🇪 when I was stumped there in the Army in the ‘70s. Outstanding!
Michael
Had Album on Vinyl in Grade School, Hard not to get Emotional, Awesome Performance 🎸💕
I hear ya. I was 15 when Tommy came out. Definitely felt emotional.
We need to fully appreciate the legends, Townsend, Daltrey, McCartney, Jagger, Richards etc while they are still able to perform.
Performing better without pitch correction, autotune and all that b.s.!
Makes ya wonder what's in the water across the Pond that allows all these Legends to still be alive? 😎
@@danielives379 Maybe something in those sandwiches Nigel Tuffnell complained about? Or in the tea?😁🤔
@IMeMineWho Something we don't know about Tea & Crumpets? 🤣🤣
@@danielives379 Let's all have 'em and see!
When they hit "listening to you ..", gave me shivers up my spine. Legend.
Me too ! We’re going this Summer ! Can’t wait
Absolutely.
I saw the musical a few days ago on Broadway. The final was a big emotion believe me. I never want to cry in a theater, I do everything it’s posible not to, but it was just imposible. The crew was fantastic. That show was from another reality. Amazing
Pete is absolutely one of the true living Legends of Rock..it is a blessing he is still with us and kicking out the jams
Paul
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@@EvelynLogan-od7zcPete > Paul
I cried too!
My God, that was beautiful. I bet it sounded amazing live. Pete Townsend, 78 and still rocking the world with his music.
I commented on this already. But I will say so again. I live in NYC. I see a Broadway show every week, and this is one of the best I have ever seen. I saw Cabaret in its first preview with Eddie Redmayne on Monday, which was amazing. But I have to say I liked Tommy even more. PLEASE see this if you are in NYC and help make it a hit! I don't want this show to get lost in the huge number of new shows this season.
Somehow I think that this show is going to be a huge hit with the baby boomers, gen X and possibly millennials. I don't know about Gen Z.
I went to Tommy on Broadway couple of weeks ago (and I see a LOT of theatre - over two dozen shows so far this year) and this production of Tommy is in my all-time top 5. One of the most spectacular things I’ve ever seen.
I'm on Long Island and I saw the first show back in 1993 at the St. James theater. Not to mention 9 concerts including the Tommy show at Forest hills with my son Tommy on fathers day 2018. Ya I'm a huge fan. Happy you enjoyed this show.
I saw it last week. I still can’t believe how beautiful it was. Great emotions. That musical is a legend for me now. One of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen.
See Me, Feel Me sends shivers down my spine every single time.
as well as “Listening to You”
The odd thing about both pieces is that neither one was an official track on the original album, just parts of "We're Not Gonna Take It."
The Woodstock version was the best!!
I was blessed to work on the original launch in Toronto of Tommy with Des, Pete, and the Mirvish Family and their amazing team. As a guitar player, it was beyond amazing to see Pete in action giving music direction each day...I still have a signed original charts. Priceless.🎶🎵🎸
Hi 👋
Lucky so and so!
It launched in the US at The La Jolla Playhouse in 1992
I saw that show, at the Winter Garden theatre. Amazing.
That is so cool. AWESOME
Choked up. Good tears. 71 Still have the LP.
Such a beautiful inspiring song. Pete is definitely one of the best songwriters of the 60s and 70s.
And now..Beads on 1 String, I'l l Be Back, Ball and Chain.
And he was barely in his 20’s; freaking GENIUS!
@@Seahawkess Not to mention Another Tricky Day, Let My Love Open the Door in the 80s..
Steve
@@IMeMineWho The Sea Refuses No River
To see and hear this performed after all these years. Tears of joy.
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Imagine, the rock (opera)album I cherished as teen becomes a Broadway play some 50+yrs later. Who would have thunk? Classic. "Long live rock...b it dead or alive!"
That young man has a fantastic voice.
The Who are one of my all time favorite bands- and this looks like a show that might do them justice!
Saw it last week. It was mind blowing, highly recommend
Just saw it last week and it was INCREDIBLE. I'd go back in a heartbeat
I'll never forget the spiritual experience I had seeing the Who play these songs in 1976 at Madison Square Garden when Keith was still playing. That album will always make people wonder it's meaning.
I was so fortunate.
That's part of the genius, it's has different meanings to different people.
@@EmilyGolden1979 though deep Townshend fans know Tommy is a tribute to the Meher Baba
Great rock albums will live on forever, if you've never heard Tommy give it a listen, it's fantastic beginning to end
I would definitely recommend Ken Russell's film adaptation.
Seriously ? The movie is unwatchable. To be clear, The Who are the most important bands in my life. The movie is an unwatchable mess. just a mess. @@williamcrowe2576
@@williamcrowe2576 It's on youtube now for free.
Being a musician with a son with autism, I understood the importance and beauty of the message in Tommy, about how a computer (at that time, a pinball machine) could be a realization for an autistic boy, and then a path of union for all humanity if we learn how to see, feel and then heal ourselves.
It’s a beautiful idea, my mother doesn’t know English but she had an autistic brother and the musical got her with a lot of memories and emotions.
Nice to see Pete driving the car, again. Shades of Denver, '72. The Man!
After that short rendition I’m ready to see the whole production !!! Awesome vocals and instrumentals !!! Tommy is one of my all time favorite sets of music for the past 50 years!!!!
I didn't idolize or have very many heroes in my youth but The Who was sure 1 of them. Still are. Thk u Pete & Roger! RIP Keith & John! "Long live rock...I need it everyday!"
Roger Daltrey played Tommy in the movie, and, well, that is who I'll always picture playing the part. But it's good to see and hear Pete speaking, still (The Who played a concert at my high school in Southfield, Michigan in 1968 or '69).
They played in ann arbor 2 shows then to and i hired them with some friends. It was at the fifth demension club. Daltrey looked like he weight like 90 pounds?
@@karldettling5981what year? He was sick for a time and lost a lot of weight. ❤❤❤
@@meltheartist1147 I think 1967 but you can look it up on google under fifth demmesion club in ann arbor.
I thought it was amazing that the Who would play at a high school. And yet, there it is on the Web: "The night of Nov. 22, 1967, is indelibly etched in the memories of local music fans lucky enough to nab a ticket to The Who’s performance at Southfield High School’s gym."
Damn no matter how many different versions of these tunes its always great, this actually tugged my emotions, Pete is amazing..
Ordinary singer…
@@ceciliasoriano3122 he's a genius.
Who fan FOREVER and from the first time I heard Tommy in '68 as a 13 year old kid the finale STILL gives me chills!
The music never gets old. So good then and always.
Gotta give it up for Ali Louis Bourzgui. The Who has been my favorite band for over 20 years, and Tommy got me into them. I’ve seen them 4 times and watched every DVD and video I could find when I was a teenager, always honing in on Tommy. I was skeptical given how associated Roger Daltrey is with the role voice of Tommy in my mind, but the second Ali started singing, I felt myself amazed, as if he was both channeling and honoring Roger’s gruffness and also making it his own. I watched this with my Mom, who got me into them when I was 15, and we were both crying tears of joy by the end and laughing at ourselves. Now we’re talking about going to New York and seeing this! It looks like an amazing production, and it warms my heart to see Pete, who got me into rock music as well as playing the guitar (which I still do every day), still out there doing what he loves and seeming really happy doing it. The Who will never cease to inspire me to live a better, more purposeful, more energized life. So cool that Pete and Ali connected to share Tommy with the world once again.
Sean
Ali is effing incredible!!! ❤
Ali is so magical! I saw him during Goodman Theatre's run of TOMMY last summer. You should definitely try to see it!
Yes, I felt exactly the same about Ali's singing.
Ali is a STAR. I see a bright future ahead for him.
Saw it on Saturday. One word: Wow.
What. An. Incredible. Show. The classic album, music and story from 1969 are drawing crowds and selling out theaters in 2024, and on Broadway! The curtain went up, the Overture kicked off, and I was enthralled. I got teary-eyed, enraptured to see it all unfolding in the magic of theater, the lighting, the settings and the performances from professionals who let you know right away this is the real deal, and these are the big boys and girls playing.
And now I see several comments from those who also shed tears of joy. It's good to know I'm not alone!
I really really want to see this!! I’ve been a fan of The Who and this album for the longest time. I’m gonna make it happen!!
I really hope it tours since I can’t get to nyc.
i saw this show in chicago last summer TWICE because of how amazing it is. if you have the chance to see it, you absolutely should. it was the best show i’ve ever seen!!
Taylor
my local HS did a production of Tommy , my kid played the young Tommy (when my son was 7) He's 18 now and an accomplished Guitarist ...I grew up on the Who....
I saw Tommy on Broadway in the 90s and it was amazing. If I had the chance I would go see it again with this new production.
Me too, I visited from Australia and it was incredible
I did as well....twice! I just saw the new one this past weekend. Itbwas beautifully staged, singers were spot on, but unless ny 73 year-old brain is embellishing my recollection of the original broadway production, this one seems a little slower and a little less edgey, but the finale still moved me. Everyone should still try to see this rock opera masterpiece!
I did too, and I thought it was actually lackluster. The movie was campy, but had an amazing cast and the band was in it. I'm a bit of a purist, and think the original album was the best, and timeless. That being said? This actually looks great and if it lasts a year I would try to see it. It's such a great story, and the music never gets old. Pete? Yeah he is old and raking in the bucks once again. Roger Daltrey does not paint a great picture of the man in his book, and I found his own biography to be boring and self centered. Just my opinions here, so please be nice with comments if you can.
I saw it in 1993 and it was amazing. This production is terrible. Don’t waste your time!
@@kgaertner Now I’m really glad that I saw it the first time around.
It had to be a thrill for the cast to perform this medley with the legendary Pete Townsend. Not only did he create Rock Opera, but he also perfected Musical Theatre for guitar players that still resonates today..
I saw it Sunday! It was amazing!!!Goosebumps and a dumb smile the whole show! Better than any production ever!
BRILLIANT vocalist…..Such HEART and SOUL in the way he SINGS the words…..Not that Roger wasn’t brilliant too. …I first was listening to the Who when I was just 9 years old in 1971 …As a kid that age I was going into W H Smiths or Boots and buying their singles around the time Whose Next ….Like with the Beatles I later went back and listened to their earlier stuff later. ‘Let’s See Action ‘ just did something to me back then. That ending with Roger’s voice being put through that repeat echo unit with those harmonies and that acoustic guitar I would carry around inside my head right thru junior school everywhere….As a song ‘Join Together’ just blew my mind with its combination of original sounds and sheer stratospheric exuberance….And when I first heard the futuristic synth chords and power growl distortion riffs of ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ on this portable radio set upstairs radio set I remember as a kid just going crazy jumping on my parents bed like a trampoline with a Slazenger tennis racket pretending to play guitar like I was absolutely NUTS…lol,,,and this was before I even knew who Deep Purple were or Ritchie Blackmore Ah, the flashbacks.😊 Halcyon days.🎉 remember that Entwistle song -‘When I Was a Boy’ -those lyrics ..’when I was a baby, I hadn’t a care in the world. But now I’m a man my troubles fill my head. When I was five it was good to be alive but now I’m a man I wish that I was dead…and I count up all those wasted years…The hopes and the fears. The laughs and the tears, and I wonder,,, I wonder, I wonder what went wrong’….When I hear that music in my head today with those words my eyes just fill up…Sounds silly I know…But in the end,,,aloft,, there is only love ❤😢
Not that Roger wasn't brilliant? Are you serious? This Broadway showtime hack can't hold a candle to Roger. This is an embarrassment
This is for middle class housewives
West End singing is just so staid, nothing at all like Roger Daltrey.
He sounds like Tom Jones
Totally agree with you. This guy can't touch Roger! @@garyscarpulla100
Throughout act 1 when my family & I saw Tommy on Broadway, I actually shed a tear. I have never felt so much emotion go through me in a long time. I myself have autism, and I couldn't help but to feel sorry for Tommy when he was a kid with what he was going through. I would recommend this broadway performance to ANYONE who have never seen this performance live and in person!!
The who, one of true Legend groups from 60s - early 80s. Growing up listening to them also been few times in their concerts. Unfortunately, these Legendary rock groups won’t be replaced most of them from that era faded away. I’m 69 now, so glad I had the opportunity to listen to these awesome rock groups.
GREAT PERFORMANCE! FUN TO SEE THESE YOUNG PERFORMERS SINGING A CLASSIC THAT WAS BIG BEFORE THEY WERE BORN.
Christian
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I love this with all of my heart. Tommy has brought immense joy to me and my friends and family for decades. It is the reason I started to play guitar. One of my oldest memories is watching my sister and her friend show my mom the interpretive dance routine they devised for See Me Feel Me. Townshend is such a real genius and we are so blessed to have him.
Peter Townsend is right up there with the very best. True legend.
Pete is one of the best songwriters of all time, and highly underrated in this regard. The Who’s catalogue is one thing, but listen to his solo repertoire. Phenomenal!
I can't believe we are lucky enough to witness this. Wow.
Thank you for posting this. I just saw this on the Jimmy Fallon show and I was hoping someone would post this I enjoyed watching this tonight so thank you.
boy oh boy am I a lucky one. first time visiting NYC in a few days, and when I saw this will just be hitting the broadway I had to buy the tickets. I saw the who only once live in concert, but since I'm 35 that's only a blessing
They did a good job and how much of a thrill to have Pete there playing along?! Wow!
I just shivered when they played "See Me" and "Listening to You". Saw them several times in the late 6os. Had the same feeling then.
Glad you never got old Pete! Hope this show comes to Toronto.
I was hoping the same but had to get nyc tickets just in case! I can't friggin risk missing this.
Went to see Tommy yesterday and it was fantastic! If you can make it, go see this. The cast is incredible.
Decades since I first heard Listening To You (as a kid with bad hearing and eyesight) and it still gives me goosebumps and chokes me up. Thanks Pete for being an inspiration in my life as an artist and a person. (Read his autobiography folks, or rather listen to the audiobook version he narrated himself. It is an amazing journey....)
Nothing less than classic. Brilliant, great, wonderful, dazzling, inventive, awesome, meaningful---classic. Thanks, Pete! Thanks, The Who! Thanks, Jimmy! Thanks to the cast and crew of "Tommy" on Broadway now! THIS is the Broadway show to see this year! Rock on!☮️❤️✌️
Great seeing Pete still putting it in 🎶
I was a teenager when The Who released their first record. I loved them then and saw them on their Quadrophenia tour and a few times after that. Nobody else has ever sounded as amazing as The Who.They will always be our friends.
OMG... Phenomenal performance! Tears in my eyes... this was the 2nd album I ever owned and I played it so much I bought a 2nd copy years later...
Oh ya!!!
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This guy nailed the lead vocals!
Wonderful show! I was lucky to play the Acid Queen in a community theater production many years ago. I actually met Michael Cerveris after a Broadway performance of "Titanic". He was very gracious and we wrote to each other a couple times over the years. I also was lucky enough to go backstage and Bill Buell(original magistrate) gave myself and friend the tour. We stood on the stage and it is a memory I'll always be thankful for. I also met Anthony Barille(cousin Kevin) and Uncle Earnie. He was smoking outside the stage door. So incredible.
One of my favorite musicals of all time! So glad it’s been revived!
Excellent!!! Tommy the who live musical in newyork bravo!!!
Indeed
Nicholas
THE WHO has brought me from depression. to happiness. In my lifetime . NOW THATS a doctor I found to cure the boy!!!!
Marty
Fantastic! That young man makes a fabulous Tommy and always an everlasting pleasure to hear Pete Townshend play, sing or speak. ❤
Having seen The Who perform Tommy at The Fillmore East, and at Woodstock, it’s uplifting see it coming to Broadway for a new generation. Mmmmy gennneration. 👏👏👏👏👏
Wow, I was 8 when Woodstock occurred. I did see Tommy in the movie theater as a teenager and had a great time with my friends. I gotta get tkts for this.
My first concert seeing the who in 1979 after Moon died, thinking I would never get to see them.. as a 19 year old, See Me Feel Me, to this day is the song that I remember from that concert.. just through the roof Goosebumps
Love this! What a musical. What a story. The talent of Pete!!
Bill
I got to see The Who perform in 1982 when tickets were $18 bucks,this music is timeless.
Pete Townsend is the original mod, rocker and punk even after all these years. I love how intense his playing is. You can hear, see and feel his passion for the music.
I remember the television station played the music LISTENING TO YOU during midnight movies on weekends when I lived in KC back in '70. I remembered the music one night stoned at a midnight showing, The Kids Are All Right, in Wichita.
What memories.. I'm amazed that I still remember the lyrics.. Good God, those were the days of my teens..
What a legend !!!!!
I’m from Colombia and I visited the city last July with my parents, I took them to this musical and it was beautiful. My father has been a huge The Who fan and although they don’t know so much English and it was their first time in the States, it was a beautiful experience. I bet this will be one of my fav memories with them ever. They were super happy, totally worth it.
Saw the show 3 times at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago last summer including one of the final performances that Pete showed up at. The audience went nuts. Seeing it again next week in NYC and can't wait!
Broody fantastic!!! I love this song .
None of the performers in this show were alive when The Who released “Tommy”. This is what it means to be a legend and have a legacy. 56 years from now, nobody will be listening to Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber…but, they will be listening to The Who.
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I’m pretty sure most of them weren’t alive when it first ran on Broadway! Just an amazing important piece of music.
Perhaps. Then again, I’d rather listen to Red or Evermore than Psychoderelict or The Iron Man. 😉
I lived in Jersey 20 minutes from The City & Damn It! Now Tommy comes to Broadway?!? PLEASE take this on the road & go to my new home Chicago. The Who is my Number 1 favorite all time favorite band & I think I’m more of a Townsend fan. Freaking genius is an understatement.
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Uhhh...Goodman Theatre 2023
Brilliant in every way- Just perfect performance- Thank you!
Such an Amazing Journey; pure -- and easy.
Mark
Loved you for almost 50 years,Pete!!!! Bless you always!!!!! Xo Mel ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🫂🎸🎸🎸
Goosebumps!
Still has the magic, part of the soundtrack of my life. Great job everyone.
I was fortunate enough to see the original production of Tommy on Broadway and describing it as spectacular is an understatement. Thank you Jimmy for the entertaining and informative interview with the legend Pete Townsend. 🎶❤️🎶
Brilliant!! There's a lot of good new music today, but nothing like this that has stood the test of time. Would love to see this show.
All those gorgeous voices (especially the harmonies and soaring vocals,) plus all the excellent musicianship. What an huge thrill for the very lucky audience!
That opening riff always gives me chills. I don’t car how many times I’ve heard.
Saw the show at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. Incredible!
Dave
I love that Tommy is being cherished and respected this way, and I'm glad to see Pete Townsend feeling the love!
James
Great performance. Its testament to the songs Pete wrote aged 24, that they still stand up to amazing new reinterpretations year after year.
I saw The Who at the Albert Hall in 2000 at the inaugural TCT gig, at the end they got loads of the kids the charity was helping dancing up on the stage, to Listening to You. It was a huge moment and deeply emotional.
After 50 years of concerts I have seen them all except the Beatles! I went to this movie when it was released! As I was stoned it was fantastic! A MASTERPIECE!!!
this movie was released and it changed rock music forever! Such an amazing thing to watch and hear and fall deep into it. I never tire of it! Roger Daltrey was the man!!!
The Who forever
We saw Tommy on Saturday. It was awesome!
Saw them do some songs (encore) from Tommy before it was released. Back in May 18 1969 at the Fillmore East, great show!
Stephen
....being a The Who fan and seeing the front man take that song on was exceptional, well done!
See Me Feel Me, 😢always got me❤but wow,this was a maze ball's 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Oh how i wish I could see this show. One of my favourite albums
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I remember seeing the original at the Macy's parade in 1993. I've been hoping for a revival for years. Just saw it on Saturday, what a welcome jolt this show is! Ali truly owns the stage, well done! I'll be going back in May. :D
Incredible performance!!!! I've seen Tommy on broadway and it's great.
Jonny
The rock opera "Tommy" is an absolute masterpiece. Some of greatest music ever written by a true living legend. Pete Townsend.
Happy for Pete and The Who legacy.
When I was a kid you *had* to have the English import version of the album. I always felt it one of the more brilliant pieces of music ever written. Still do.
Incredible. What a legend!
Pete is the greatest songwriter of all time - this, the r&b hits, the 70s stadium rockers and I didn't even mention quadrophenia...
Saw The Who in 1981 in Philadelphia. The energy in this was just amazing. Can't wait to see the musical live!
Thank you Pete for many years of great music
That my Friends is so relevant Today as it was 50+ yrs ago. Listening to you was so powerful!!!!
United we stand. Listening to you is a world Anthem. Tommy is the Genius of Pete Townsend. I wish I could see the play. Absolutely brilliant and beautiful. ❤ the Who forever