Tina Turner Musical – West End
If ever a pop star merited a jukebox musical, it is the extraordinary Tina Turner. In addition to a voice that could blow the roof of any theatre, the powerhouse pop star has a back story to match the strength of her back catalogue.
In Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall’s hands, Tina: The Musical becomes much more than your standard story of pop stardom. She and director Phyllida Lloyd (‘Mamma Mia’) elevate it into a quasi-pop-rock opera, aware that Turner’s life marries tragedy and triumph, all mapped against America’s history of racial division and discrimination.
Read MoreBorn in Nutbush, Tennessee, under the name Anna Mae Bullock, she’s first seen unleashing an outrageous voice at the local community church, to her mother Zelma’s embarrassment. Given her parents’ turbulent relationship – her mother leaves home with her sister Aline – Anna Mae is brought up by her grandmother Georgeanna and, as a teenager, set to work in the cotton fields.
On visiting her mother and sister in St Louis, she’s spotted at a nightclub by the rising singer-songwriter Ike Turner, who chances to hand her the mic mid-song and, blown away by her belt voice, signs her up for his backing band and, in time, as his wife. Anna Mae Bullock becomes Tina Turner.
The story of their marriage is well-documented, rife with drug and domestic abuse, but onstage, it lands with horrible force – and Hall’s book gives Ike’s charisma as much room as his cruelty. It is only on breaking free from their relationship, physically and emotionally bruised, that she starts to take flight on her own path to stardom.
Even so, Tina’s blessed with a score to send audiences soaring. A show that starts with the infectious exuberance of ‘Nutbush City Limits’ builds into a toe-tapping, lust-busting medley over the first half as hit after hit tumbles off the stage: ‘River Deep Mountain High’ raises the tempo and the temperature before ‘Proud Mary’ all but raises the roof.
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Which Theatre
Tina the musical is showing at the Aldwych Theatre, 49 Aldwych, London WC2B 4DF.
Duration
The Tina Turner Musical has a running time of 2 hours and forty-five minutes, including a 15-minute interval.
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Age Recommendation
For ages six and above.
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Cast
Karis Anderson – Tina Turner
Elesha Paul Moses – Tina Turner
Okezie Morro – Ike Turner
Mark Anderson – Phil Spector
Jonathan Carlton – Erwin Bach
Vanessa Dumatey – Alline Bullock
Irene Myrtle Forrester – Gran
Earl Gregory – Richard Bullock
Harry Harrington – Roger Davies
Emma Hatton – Rhonda Graam
Jairus McClanahan – Raymond Hill
Carole Stennett – Zelma Bullock
Lauren Allan – Ensemble
Turrell Barrett-Wallace – Ensemble
Morgan Broome – Ensemble / Ikette
Amara Campbell – Ensemble / Ikette
Abiola Efunshile – Ensemble / Ikette
Joey James – Ensemble
Zara MacIntosh – Ensemble
Thomas Sutcliffe – Carpenter
Richard Appiah-Sarpong – Swing
Jenna Bonner – Swing
Ana Cardoso – Swing
Junior Delius – Swing
Livvy Evans – Swing
Ewan Grant – Swing
Imogen Rose Hart – Swing
Llewellyn Jamal – Swing
Amy Punter – Swing
Ellie Seaton – Swing
Samuel J Weir – Swing
Creative
Tina Turner – Executive Producer
Katori Hall – Book
Frank Ketelaar & Kees Prins – Book
Phyllida Lloyd – Director
Anthony Van Laast – Choreographer
Mark Thompson – Set & Costume Designer
Nicholas Skilbeck – Musical Supervisor, Arrangements, and Additional Music
Bruno Poet – Lighting Designer
Nevin Steinberg – Sound Designer
Ethan Popp – Orchestrator
Jeff Sugg – Projection Designer
Campbell Young – Hair, Wigs & Makeup Designer
Pippa Ailion CDG and Natalie Gallacher CDG – Casting
Kate Waters – Fight Director
Ingrid Mackinnon – Intimacy Support
Katherine Hare – International Associate Director
Simone Mistry-Palmer – International Associate Choreographer
Ben Atkinson – Musical Director
Ewa Dina – Resident Director
Renée Ocran – Resident Choreographer
Jack Galloway – Costume Associate
Max Narula – International Associate Lighting Designer
Tony Gayle – Associate Sound Designer
Mogzi – UK Associate Projection Designer and Programmer
Stage Entertainment – Producer
Joop van den Ende – Producer
Tali Pelman – Producer
The Nederlander Organisation – Associate Producer
Tina Turner and Erwin Bach – Executive Producers
Mark Rubinstein – General Manager
Sacha Milroy – Production Manager
Marc Anderson – Company Manager
Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng – Assistant Company Manager
Nadia Javed – Stage Manager
Harry Deely – Deputy Stage Manager
Natasha Harper Smith – Assistant Stage Manager
Louisa Kemp – Assistant Stage Manager
Matthew Richard Smith – Assistant Stage Manager