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Article: VILLAGE THEATRE'S 'TOMMY' IS ROUGH, TOUGH AND TENDER.(Life and Arts)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- May 15, 2007
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Byline: JOE ADCOCKP-I theater critic
"The Who's Tommy" is both tough and tender. Director Brian Yorkey's Village Theatre revival of the 1993 Broadway sensation has the gaudy production values and the booming wall-of-sound acoustics of a rock concert. Yorkey's actors/singers/dancers put across Who songwriter Pete Townshend's 1969 hard-rock aesthetic with slam-bang authority.
But for all its raucous British-invasion tumult, "Tommy" tells a subtle tale of trauma, brutality and eventual healing. When he is 4, the title character sees his father, just released from a World War II German prison camp, shoot and kill his mother's lover. Tommy's parents ...