For decades, the story of Tommy Walker has enthralled audiences. The titular character in “The Who’s Tommy” has been the focus of the groundbreaking 1969 concept album, the zany 1975 film and the hit Broadway musical, which debuted in 1993.
Through music, all these outlets have told the story of a disenfranchised post-war youth who witnesses a horrific act of violence at the hands of his father and becomes disassociated from reality before finding his gift for pinball and becoming enmeshed in his own savior complex.
