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Des McAnuff, the two-time Tony Award winner who directed the original Broadway staging of The Who’s Tommy, will direct a new production of the musical for 2021, producers Hal Luftig and Patrick Catullo announced today.

“Our new production of Tommy will be a reinvention aimed directly at today,” said McAnuff in a statement. “Tommy combines myth and spectacle in a way that truly soars. The key question with any musical is ‘Does the story sing?’ and this one most certainly does.”

McAnuff called the Tommy character – marking his 50th birthday this year – “the anti-hero ground zero. He is the boy who not only rejects adulthood like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, but existence itself. He becomes lost in the universe as he stares endlessly and obsessively into the mirror at his own image. This gives our story a powerful resonance today as it seems like the whole...

Up there, high, high in the lovely apartment in midtown Manhattan, lives the mysterious Paul Kandel. Who is this creature What is he How did he come to be there Hush Rob and Kevin will tell you as they sit down with the wonderful Mr. Kandel, best known for his role as Uncle Ernie inTHE Who's TOMMYand as the voice of Clopin in Disney'sTHE Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

Sex In A Coma, a new play by Susan Eve Haar, will make its New York City debut directed by renowned director Lee Breuer, in his first collaboration with a living American playwright. The play stars Tony Award nominee Paul Kandel The Who's Tommy, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, David-Julian Melendez User 927 and Romeo amp Juliet at Here, Obie Award winner Maude Mitchell Mabou Mines Dollhouse, The Laramie Project, Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran Oresteia, Flipzoids, Jessica Weinstein Mabou Mines DollHouse, The Best, and Wendy vanden Heuvel The Barbie Project, Resurrection Blues. Music for the play will be composed by Eve Beglarian Mabou Mines DollHouse, Animal Magnetism.The show plays tonight, December 1st through December 11th, at Here Arts Center 145 Sixth Avenue, NYC.

t was announced today that Sex In A Coma, a new play by Susan Eve Haar, will make its New York City debut directed by renowned director Lee Breuer, in his first collaboration with a living American playwright. The play stars Tony Award nominee Paul Kandel The Who's Tommy, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, David-Julian Melendez User 927 and Romeo amp Juliet at Here, Obie Award winner Maude Mitchell Mabou Mines Dollhouse, The Laramie Project, Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran Oresteia, Flipzoids, Jessica Weinstein Mabou Mines DollHouse, The Best, and Wendy vanden Heuvel The Barbie Project, Resurrection Blues. Music for the play will be composed by Eve Beglarian Mabou Mines DollHouse, Animal Magnetism.

Full casting has been announced for Open The Dark Door, an indie rock musical by David Lefort Nugent that confronts the modern American justice system. Starring in the production at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival are Broadway's Mary Ellen Ashley (Annie Get Your Gun), Paul Kandel (Tommy, Titanic, Jesus Christ Superstar), Laura Jordan (Cry Baby), and Andrew McGinn (Coast of Utopia). The production will feature direction from Susanna Gellert (Fugue States at Ps 122) and runs from October 8th to October 17th at the American Theatre of Actors.