Title: MUCH ADO
Product review: If you can imagine The Who's "Tommy" as performed by a Broadway musical cast, well then there's no surprises here. The Who's original "Tommy" album was a success due to it's innovative music but it's very thin storyline and simple themes of worldly gain and loss glare akwardly in this original Broadway cast recording. Peter Townsend's original work compared itself to traditional opera in that it's story was secondary, indeed only a backdrop to the music, but Broadway takies it oh so seriously with nary a drop of humility and restraint. It amounts to the sound of a loud parade passing by, in tune but colorless. For a better transition, see Ken Russell's 1975 film, "Tommy".
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