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Promotional graphic for The Who’s Tommy featuring the show's title in large, reflective gold lettering against a black background. Shattered gold glass shards surround the text, creating a dramatic, high-energy visual effect. Additional text reads “The Musical.”

Listening to You I Get the Music

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…or How I Got To Watch Pete Townshend Play Air Guitar By Constance Harvey Constance Harvey was the press rep at the La Jolla Playhouse when The Who’s TOMMY premiered there in 1992. She was on staff at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts two years later when the first national tour came to […]

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Two people pose together in front of a bright yellow promotional backdrop for The Who’s Tommy. One person wears a dark suit jacket with contrasting trim, and the other wears a dark collared shirt and necklace. Visible backdrop text includes “Tommy Can You Hear Me” and “The Who’s.”

Des McAnuff Sure Directs a Mean Musical in The Who’s TOMMY

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Nearly 60 years ago, The Who released its fourth studio album – and blew up the entire concept of an album with the first commercially successful rock opera, a song cycle tracing the life and experiences of the “deaf, dumb and blind kid” Tommy, who goes from tortured childhood to becoming a godlike figure – […]

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Promotional graphic for The Who’s Tommy featuring the show's title in large, reflective gold lettering against a black background. Shattered gold glass shards surround the text, creating a dramatic, high-energy visual effect. Additional text reads “The Musical.”

Rock Opera Revival: The Who’s TOMMY Comes to Denver in a Dazzling New Production 

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The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is thrilled to welcome a bold new production of the legendary rock opera The Who’s TOMMY playing Oct. 16–18, 2026 in the Buell Theatre at 14th & Curtis in downtown Denver. Fresh from Broadway, this high‑voltage revival brings renewed energy, emotional depth, and theatrical spectacle to one of […]

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