<P> In 1991, Townshend broke his wrist in a cycling accident and could not play guitar . Looking for alternative work while recuperating, he responded to a request from the PACE Theatrical Group for the rights to a Broadway musical adaptation of Tommy . The group introduced him to La Jolla Playhouse director Des McAnuff, and the pair began to develop the musical together . It opened at La Jolla in summer 1992, and was an immediate commercial success . Townshend wrote a new song, "I Believe My Own Eyes", to explain the relationship between Tommy's parents, but otherwise tried to be faithful to the music on the original album . </P> <P> The musical had a mixed response from critics, while Daltrey and Entwistle thought the show was too passive . Anthony DeCurtis, writing in Rolling Stone, said the orchestra drummer had "the thankless task of having to reproduce Keith Moon's parts". Townshend and McAnuff rewrote parts of the musical when it moved from La Jolla to Broadway, to show a darker side for the title character . McAnuff won a Tony Award in 1993 for Best Director, while Wayne Cilento won the award for Best Choreographer . The Broadway run lasted from 1993 to 1995 . McAnuff revisited Tommy during the 2013 season of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival . </P> <P> In 2015, bluegrass band The Hillbenders released a cover of the album, arranged by Jim Rea and produced by Louis Jay Meyers . The group have informed Townshend and Daltrey in order to get official blessing . The performance of the bluegrass version has been critically praised, with Rolling Stone marking the Hillbenders appearance at South by Southwest one of the "50 Best Things We Saw At SXSW 2015". Townshend met with the group after the band's May 2015 performance in Nashville . </P> <P> Track names and timings vary across editions; some editions have two tracks merged into one and vice versa . "See Me, Feel Me", for example, is the second half of "We're not Gonna Take It", but is its own track as a single and on the 2003 deluxe edition. All tracks written by Pete Townshend, except where noted . </P>

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