Theater Review: 'The Who's Tommy'

There’s something exhilarating and also a little bizarre about Tommy as both time capsule and time traveler. Pete Townshend’s music and the otherworldly hero it’s wrapped around clearly have legs for days: Who doesn’t want to headbang when that “Pinball Wizard” guitar riff starts? At the same time, and for all its zealous energy, the Who’s heady rock opera can’t help feeling like a curio, one that seems to come back around every three decades or so. The album is …