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- Quadrophenia is a stage musical based on the sixth studio album by English rock band The Who, released on 19 October 1973, and a film of the same name, released in 1979. The album was the group's second full-length rock opera, and the story reveals social, musical and psychological events from an English teenager's perspective.
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Quadrophenia rock opera by The Who. Quadrophenia is a stage musical based on the sixth studio album by English rock band The Who, released on 19 October 1973, and a film of the same name, released in 1979.
Oct 26, 2023 · Quadrophenia Is A Living Document. Like Tommy, Quadrophenia got a stoner-friendly cinematic treatment, and has hit the stage in various iterations over the years. But after a 1992 Broadway musical based on Tommy, the band hardly touched it in its full glory — save a solo tour by Daltrey performing it in full.
Quadrophenia is a stage musical based on the sixth studio album by English rock band The Who, released on 19 October 1973, and a film of the same name, released in 1979.
Quadrophenia is the name of several stage musicals based on the 1973 studio double-album Quadrophenia by the Who. This album also spawned a 1979 movie of the same name.
There have been several amateur productions of a Quadrophenia musical. In 2007, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama performed a musical based on the original album at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, featuring a cast of 12 backed by an 11-piece band. [89]
Nov 3, 2023 · Conceived by Pete Townshend as “hard and grandiose music”, Quadrophenia tells the story of young Jimmy, a restless, working-class “mountain of paranoia” struggling against a backdrop of unemployment, parental pressures and excessive amphetamine use. Mod culture and trips to Brighton provide an identity before the real Jimmy pushes out ...
Aug 29, 2012 · You’d naturally expect Quadrophenia to be some kind of musical; after all, the movie is based on the Who’s 1973 double-album song cycle. That work came out the same year as Pink Floyd’s equally alienated, overweening The Dark Side of the Moon, and both are headphone operas, half critiquing and half celebrating the space where youth ...
