![]() “I always wonder, is someone walking out when Uncle Ernie fiddles about,” Hendley said. The stage production has maintained the fun, and the political incorrectness, of the original. How can he be saved from the eternal grave?” Those attuned to foreshadowing are given the hint that someday Tommy will have a religious following. “He doesn’t know who Jesus was or what praying is. ![]() They lament that “Tommy doesn’t know what day it is” on Christmas. So begins the “Amazing Journey” of the boy in the “quiet vibration land – strange as it seems, his musical dreams ain’t quite so bad.” But while Tommy doesn’t visibly suffer, he parents anguish that their son is locked in a world apart. The traumatized boy becomes deaf, blind, and mute. The adults’ admonition, “You didn’t hear it, you didn’t see it, you won’t say nothing to no one ever in your life,” is taken too literally. ![]() ![]() In either case, the transgression is witnessed by young Tommy watching in the mirror. In this production (as in the original record), Captain Walker kills the suitor. Spoiler alert: In the 1975 movie, the lover murders Captain Walker. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. ![]()
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