Pete Townshend recounted the truth behind the story of how “Pinball Wizard” came to be part of the Who’s 1969 rock opera Tommy, forcing him to make the deaf, dumb and blind lead character into an ...

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A newly reimagined production of The Who’s TOMMY is coming to Broadway! Tommy will star Ali Louis Bourzgui as Tommy. Myth and spectacle combine in The Who’s exhilarating 1969 rock opera, ...

Fifty years ago today, “that deaf, dumb and blind kid” who scored immortality in “Pinball Wizard” was born when “Tommy” — The Who’s game-changing rock opera — was released on May 23, 1969. And the ...

CHICAGO — In the beginning, there was no pinball wizard. “Tommy” was the fourth studio album released by the British band known as The Who and a colossal step forward when it came to rock music and ...

Casey Cott's a pinball wizard! The Riverdale fave is starring alongside Christian Borle and Mandy Gonzalez in the Kennedy Center production of The Who's Tommy, which is playing through April 28. Take ...

Tommy, we can’t hear you. And it’s a shame. He still plays a mean pinball, that deaf, dumb and blind kid, but once he snaps out of his self-induced catatonic state, the young pinball wizard can’t make ...

It’s a good thing it was the 1960s — before video games — when The Who was working on its iconic album, “Tommy.” The English rock band’s famous tune, “Pinball Wizard,” just wouldn’t have had the same ...

Mitchell Lam Hau, center, as Tommy, during dress rehearsal of StageWorks Fresno's production of "The Who's Tommy" at Dan Pessano Theatre at Clovis North High School's Performing Arts Complex in Fresno ...

In the beginning, there was no pinball wizard. “Tommy” was the fourth studio album released by the British band known as The Who and a colossal step forward when it came to rock music and narrative ...