The Who’s Tommy

Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend, Additional Music and Lyrics by John Entwhistle and Keith Moon, Book by Des McAnuff and Pete Townshend

After witnessing the accidental murder of his mother's lover by his father, Tommy is traumatized into catatonia and, as the boy grows, he suffers abuse at the hands of his sadistic relatives and neighbors. As an adolescent, he's discovered to have an uncanny knack for playing pinball and, when his mother finally breaks through his catatonia, he becomes an international pinball superstar.