BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20231129T190000Z DTEND:20231130T020000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Love the Glove Film Series Presents: The Who's "Tommy" DESCRIPTION:The Love the Glove Film Series concludes its celebration of movies with memorable scores with The Who's Tommy\, the star-studded\, psychedelic rock opera!\n\nNora Walker is told that her British bomber pilot husband is missing in action and presumed killed in World War II. On V.E. Day\, Nora gives birth to their son and names him Tommy. When Tommy is an adolescent\, Nora marries shifty camp-counselor Frank\; shortly thereafter\, Tommy suffers an emotionally traumatic experience associated with his father and stepfather which\, based on things told to him at that time\, results in him becoming deaf\, mute\, and blind\, and several people exploit this situation for their own pleasure. As Nora tries several things to bring Tommy out of his psychosomatic disabilities\, he\, now a young man\, discovers pinball. Playing by intuition he becomes a pinball master\, which makes him--and Nora and Frank by association--rich and famous. Nora literally shatters Tommy to his awakening\, which ultimately leads to both the family's rise and downfall as people initially try to emulate Tommy's path then rebel against it.\n\nPresented with FREE admission thanks to a generous underwriting by the Perrott\, Peck\, and Blackmon Families.\n\nScreened with permission of Swank Entertainment. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Love the Glove Film Series concludes its celebration of movies with memorable scores with The Who&rsquo\;s Tommy\, the star-studded\, psychedelic rock opera!
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Nora Walker is told that her British bomber pilot husband is missing in action and presumed killed in World War II. On V.E. Day\, Nora gives birth to their son and names him Tommy. When Tommy is an adolescent\, Nora marries shifty camp-counselor Frank\; shortly thereafter\, Tommy suffers an emotionally traumatic experience associated with his father and stepfather which\, based on things told to him at that time\, results in him becoming deaf\, mute\, and blind\, and several people exploit this situation for their own pleasure. As Nora tries several things to bring Tommy out of his psychosomatic disabilities\, he\, now a young man\, discovers pinball. Playing by intuition he becomes a pinball master\, which makes him--and Nora and Frank by association--rich and famous. Nora literally shatters Tommy to his awakening\, which ultimately leads to both the family'\;s rise and downfall as people initially try to emulate Tommy'\;s path then rebel against it.
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Presented with FREE admission thanks to a generous underwriting by the Perrott\, Peck\, and Blackmon Families.
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Screened with permission of Swank Entertainment.
\n LOCATION:The Glove Theatre 42 N Main St Gloversville NY 12078 UID:e.97.41812 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260514T205725Z URL:https://business.fultonmontgomeryny.org/events/details/love-the-glove-film-series-presents-the-who-s-tommy-41812 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR