Ealing students re-imagine rock opera Tommy in immersive style

By VMZ Staff on January 23, 2026

Theatre students at the University of West London in Ealing performed an adaptation of The Who’s rock musical Tommy.

The performance, featuring 22 first- and second-year students at UWL’s London College of Music explored how immersive theatre can reimagine this classic work.

The show started in the University’s Lawrence Hall in a free-standing performance before the audience of fellow students, friends and family were taken through to Freddies for a cabaret style performance, then returned to Lawrence Hall for the remainder of the show.

Selected audience members were taken to a separate room throughout for a private one-on-one performance (in the style of the immersive and interactive performances by theatre company Punchdrunk.

The aim was that every audience member experienced the show slightly differently.

It was directed by the course leader for Musical Theatre, Gillian Ford, and choreographed by lecturer Kirsty MacLaren.

 

 Tommy Half-Speed Master vinyl LP are available

One of the most important albums of all time, Tommy is a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy, which, when released in 1969, reached #2 in the UK charts and #7 in the US. The 2-LP album. It is packaged in the original triple-gatefold sleeve with the 12-page full-colour libretto.

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The Who may not make another album because they won’t make any money from it.

 Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend – are proud of how well-received 2019’s ‘Who’ was but they made a loss on the record and there was tension between the two of them, so they are reluctant to do it again.(Music-news)

“There’s no record market any more. Everybody talks about streaming, but have you seen what artists get from that? It’s a joke.

 

 

 

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