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→Act 1: Spelling/Grammar Check, typos fixed: psychosomaticaly → psychosomatically
===Act 1===
===Act 1===
In the stage show, as in the movie, Mrs. Walker's husband is a World War II RAF pilot, however in the musical, he is not shot down but MIA, presumed dead, leading Mrs. Walker into an unknowingly adulterous relationship with an unnamed man. When Tommy's father returns home and catches them together he kills his wife's new lover in a fit of rage, and Tommy witnesses it via a reflection in a full length mirror in the living room. Realizing that the murder was witnessed by Tommy, his parents insist "You didn't hear it, you didn't see it. You won't say nothing to no one Ever in your life..." and Tommy takes those words to heart, becoming psychosomaticaly deaf, dumb and blind.
In the stage show, as in the movie, Mrs. Walker's husband is a World War II RAF pilot, however in the musical, he is not shot down but MIA, presumed dead, leading Mrs. Walker into an unknowingly adulterous relationship with an unnamed man. When Tommy's father returns home and catches them together he kills his wife's new lover in a fit of rage, and Tommy witnesses it via a reflection in a full length mirror in the living room. Realizing that the murder was witnessed by Tommy, his parents insist "You didn't hear it, you didn't see it. You won't say nothing to no one Ever in your life..." and Tommy takes those words to heart, becoming psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind.
What follows is a musical number, sung by a man garbed in silvery robes who tells us how Tommy now experiences the world in colors and music, without truly perceiving the world around him. The trial of Tommy's father on murder charges is shown and his father was acquitted. We then see Tommy examined by a series of doctors, as his parents realize the damage they caused him, and try to have him cured. during this sequence the child actor playing 4 year old Tommy, is replaced with an adolescent, playing 10 year old Tommy.
What follows is a musical number, sung by a man garbed in silvery robes who tells us how Tommy now experiences the world in colors and music, without truly perceiving the world around him. The trial of Tommy's father on murder charges is shown and his father was acquitted. We then see Tommy examined by a series of doctors, as his parents realize the damage they caused him, and try to have him cured. during this sequence the child actor playing 4 year old Tommy, is replaced with an adolescent, playing 10 year old Tommy.