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Ali Louis Bourzgui

The Brightest Light On Broadway: Ali Louis Bourzgui

The 24-year-old actor is making his Broadway debut in the title role of a new production of The Who’s Tommy at the Nederlander Theatre

Written by Marshall Heyman
Photographed by Emilio Madrid
Shot on location at Corner Studio New York City

To prepare for his role as the Pinball Wizard himself in this season’s revival of The Who’s Tommy, Moroccan American actor Ali Louis Bourzgui watched every live performance by and interview with The Who that he could find on YouTube. As dedicated as that may sound, Bourzgui feels that the rock opera, last seen on Broadway over 30 years ago, “is to the classic rock world what Hamlet is to the classical theater world. It’s a timeless, legendary fable that changed the course of music in the late 1960s and then Broadway in the ’90s.”

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