I should have listened to the bad reviews on here. This is, without a doubt, one of the crappiest productions of anything I have ever seen on Broadway, or anywhere, for that matter. I saw the original Broadway production, which was pretty innovative for its time with all sorts of flying and special effects. None of that here. It looks like they spent as little as possible to put this on stage. No flying here. No great effects. Just all sorts of projections and lights blinking on and off. Very, very cheap looking set. The sound was horrific. You couldn't hear lyrics over the orchestra for half of it. If you don't know the story, it comes off as incomprehensible. There were a lot of little kids around me and parents trying to explain what was going on. It's really, really bad. If you must see this show, make sure you are located in a center section, because the way this is (poorly) staged, if you are sitting to the far sides, you are going to miss a lot of it. I was sold a partial view ticket that was not labelled partial view. I almost complained but I couldn't sit through this thing again anyway, so who cares.
Mercifully, the show is relatively short, at just over two hours.
By the way, last night, Des Mcanuff, who has apparently lost any and all directorial magic he may have once had, came out before the show to announce that it was "Tommy alumni night" and that the audience was filled with cast and crew who had been in previous productions of Tommy. Suffice to say, if you people don't like screaming in the theatre, you would have hated being there last night because there was screaming from beginning to end.
