Pete Townshend Musical to Premiere in New York

Now, I enjoy listening to random obscure bands just as much as the next person, but I still very much get off on the great monoliths of classic rock stardom. My favorite of these rockstars, The Who's amazing Pete Townshend, is ready to wow audiences with a musical adaptation of his blog novella, The Boy Who Heard Music*. The novella was written in between September of 2005 and February of 2006 and was the basis for The Who's latest album, Endless Wire, their first original material in 24 years since their shoddy release, It's Hard (affectionately called "It Sucks" by many fans).

"The Boy Who Heard Music" will have its premiere dates on July 13th and 14th at Vassar College's Powerhouse Theater in Poughkeepsie, NY. The show will feature new material from the Towser, as well as songs from Endless Wire and his solo efforts, Lifehouse and Psychoderelict.
The effort was originally supposed to be a film starring Johnny Depp as Ray High, Townshend's semi-autobiographical character, under the direction of famous Python Terry Gilliam, but no serious plans appear to have surfaced. It's unknown if the show will have additional performances.
As of now, Townshend and The Who are busy with a European tour scheduled to end on July 9th in Helsinki, two days after headlining the Roskilde festival in Denmark.

*It seems that something is up with his site, so I've used the Internet Archive to sort of give readers a source of the materials. The PDFs are wonky, don't try them. You can navigate if you're at least a bit tech-savvy and can click on the "Archive" links at the right of the page. I'll update this if Towser's web hosting improves in the next few days.