Review: The Who’s Tommy at Birmingham REP

With an opening montage of Donald Trump mocking a disabled reporter and images of the effects recent cuts have had on disabled people in the UK, I knew that this show was going to be unlike anything I have seen before. Tommy, which first took to the stage in the early 90s following the success of the 1975 film, is based on The Who’s 1969 rock opera album of the same name. With music and lyrics by Pete Townshend, the story follows Tommy, a ‘deaf, dumb and blind’ kid who watches his own father get murdered by his mother’s new... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
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