Quadrophenia

[coolphantom919]

Posted: 2/19/07 at 9:10pm

In your opinion, could The Who's Rock Opera Quadrophenia come to Broadway????



P.S. Tommy did!


P.P.S. Tommy won 5 Tonys
Updated On: 2/19/07 at 09:10 PM

[coolphantom919]

Posted: 2/19/07 at 9:19pm

good music...

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 2/19/07 at 9:30pm

Quadraphenia is a great album, but I think it has a lot of problems as a musical. First and foremost is the fact that Townsend, like a lot of other people, totally confused schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder (now dissociative identity disorder), so the term quadraphenia makes no sense at all. From there you have the fact that each personality has its own musical theme and was performed by a different band member. So do you stage it with one guy doing four personalities, or integrate four actors into one role? Finally, the story is very gritty and ends in, what, a suicide? Tommy may have been a lot of style with little substance, but Quadraphenia would drown in its own self-importance.

[coolphantom919]

Posted: 4/2/07 at 9:18am

i heard a regional production of Quadrophenia was put up a little while ago. In Pete Townshend's web post h put a link to a gallery of pics from it... Now I can't find it! I'll look hard to show everyone on this site.

[Taryn]

Posted: 4/2/07 at 9:44am

I think that Quadrophenia has the capacity to work much better on stage than it ever did being performed live by The Who. Because of the complexity of the album, the necessity of backing tracks on tour was notoriously hated by the group, who loved being able to go wherever they wanted when performing. I don't see how the four themes/personalities would somehow be a problem--I would cast one actor to play split personalities.

Quadrophenia doesn't actually end in a suicide. In "Love, Reign O'er Me" Jimmy finds release and rebirth in the rain. Even in the movie he doesn't kill himself. And WOW, that would be an amazing eleven o'lock number.

I personally would love to see the full extent of Quadrophenia given real life on stage.

[winston89]

Posted: 4/2/07 at 11:41am

NO NO NO NO NO. As a die hard who fan who loves the who almost as much if not mre then I love theatre I don't want this to come to broadway. I feel that Townshend killed a masterpeace when he brought Tommy to broadway. He sugarcoated tommy way to much for broadway and I don't want to see it happining again. Quadrophenia by the way is name of a made up medical condition that Townshed created.

So I would rather see 500 SH*TTY movies turned musicals before they EVER put this on broadway. LOVE the album but not worthy of a broadway show same with TOMMY.