The Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City presents, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical! Featuring the life, times, and the music of the multi award-winning performer, Tina Turner. Beginning with her humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, through the turbulent years singing and performing with Ike Turner, and the tragic death of her mother, to her transformation into the global, 12-time Grammy Award winning rock ‘n roll star that she has become today. Over her career, she has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, with Rolling Stone Magazine ranking her one of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and among the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
“I’VE RARELY HEARD AN AUDIENCE WITH THIS MIGHTY A ROAR.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES
“It’s irresistibly uplifting.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“Euphoric, moving, and totally joyous.” – People Magazine
The musical opens with Anna Mae Bullock singing in the community church, much to her mother, Zelma’s embarrassment, and unable to take a difficult relationship anymore, Zelma walks out, taking her eldest daughter Aline, with her, and leaving Gran Georgeanna to bring up Anna Mae. A few years later, Anna Mae is invited to join her mother and sister in St Louis. Alline introduces Anna Mae to the nightlife, and she eventually crosses paths with Ike Turner and his band.
One night Anna Mae joins Ike on stage to sing, and the success of the performance leads Ike to ask Zelma if Anna Mae can join his band, under the stage name Tina Turner. After numerous successful tours, Ike pops the question to Tina, who enjoys playing music with him, is also concealing a romance with another band member, and despite expecting Raymond’s child, Tina agrees to marry Ike. Despite Ike’s infidelities and violence, Tina continues to perform with his band. Eventually, during a recording contract, Ike grows angry with the recording studio’s wish to record Tina solo. A violent encounter follows a performance in which Tina walks out battered, bruised and bloody, and she spends the night in a hotel.
Now performing in Las Vegas with her new manager, Rhonda. But the two are struggling, since Ike claims ownership of all the songs from the “Ike & Tina Revue,” and given that Tina is getting close to 40, no record labels want to sign a black woman. Finally, Tina meets the young Australian music producer and enthusiast Roger Davies, who re-invents her by going into rock and roll, and since the labels will not sign her, they decide to promote by her through touring performances in the United States. Tina’s new performances are a success, and Capitol Records begs to sign with them, and Tina agrees, but on her own terms.
Zelma is on her deathbed, and Alline has just arrived. Zelma requests that Tina and Ike get back together when she sees her in the hospital, but Ike storms out of the hospital after failing to apologize to Tina, and Zelma passes away shortly after.
TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, which was workshopped in 2016 with Tina Turner herself, has a creative team that includes Katori Hall, book writers Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, director Phyllida Lloyd, set and costume designer Mark Thompson, choreographer Anthony van Laast, and musical supervisor Nicholas Skilbeck. Early drafts of the novel were written by Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, with Katori Hall taking over midway through.
The musical opened on London’s West End in March 2018 at the Aldwych Theatre. It was nominated for three Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best Musical, and eventually won Best Actor in 2019. TINA opened on Broadway in October of 2019 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. In 2020, it won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress.
Experience Tina Turner’s triumphant story live on Broadway at the exhilarating, undeniable mega hit: TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL.
Celebrate the unstoppable woman that dared to dream fiercely, shatter barriers, and conquer the world—against all odds. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters.
“Prepare to be ecstatically blown away. It’s a miracle the roof hasn’t taken flight to space.” – The Daily Beast
“ROOF-RAISING! IT HITS THE RAFTERS. THIS IS TINA AS WE KNOW AND ADORE HER.”- Variety
