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Sat. Aug. 9 - Sun. April 10 "Tommy" will not die, and why should it with Green Day's "American Idiot" doing ga ngbusters on Broadway and "Prometheus Bound" headed for the A.R.T.'s Club Oberon = as a rock musical. Rock operas have been hailed, damned, deemed hip and unhip, and "Tommy" - though not the first rock opera (Pretty Things' "S.F. Sorrow" gets that nod) was the transcendent one, the complex, somewhat convoluted story of the deaf, dumb and blind boy, who suffers child abuse (pertinent once again!), learns the art of pinball (a forgotten skill in this Xbox Kinect Wii age) and becomes a messiah (say hi to Scientology's David Miscavige) and is taken down by the once-adoring mob. Ken Russell's movie was a grandiose flob and the Broadway show was not considered much of a rocking experience. I saw the Who perform it once in the '80s in toto in New York and they killed. Now, the Boston Conservatory Theater Ensemble presents is on the beat, presenting "The Who’s Tommy,' April 8—10, 2011, at the newly-renovated Boston Conservatory Theater, It's directed by Boston Conservatory Alumnus Austin Regan, is a New York City-based director, who was an assistant director on "Idiot," among other things.
Tickets: $25. Shows Friday and Saturday at 8, Saturday and Sunday at 2.
31 Hemenway St. 617-912-9222 www.bostonconservatory.edu
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