Regions Bank Broadway in Atlanta is delighted to announce that tickets for TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL will go on sale on Dec. 2 for eight performances from Feb. 21 to Feb. 26, 2023. The
cast is led by Naomi
Rodgers (Frozen)
and Zurin Villanueva
(The
Lion King, Mean Girls, Shuffle Along, The Book of Mormon) who
will evenly share the role of
Tina Turner, each playing four (of eight) performances a week.
Also starring are Garrett
Turner as Ike
Turner, Roz
White as Zelma
Bullock, Ann
Nesby as Gran
Georgeanna and Lael
Van Keuren as
Rhonda.  “It
has been years since I toured the US and I am very excited that my own musical
can now bring my music and story to my fans in their home cities across
America. It’s a homecoming and that is very special to me,” said Tina Turner. “We
are delighted to begin this next chapter for TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL. The North
American tour will see the show enjoy its sixth production around the world
since opening in the West End in 2018, which is testimony to Tina’s
extraordinary legacy. This tour clearly has special resonance for Tina
herself, and now more than ever we can’t wait to uplift audiences across
America with her joyful and triumphant story," the producers, Tali
Pelman from Stage Entertainment and Jimmy Nederlander said. “We can’t wait to
introduce America to the two megawatt superstars—Naomi Rodgers and Zurin
Villanueva — who will share the role of Tina, Garrett Turner in the role of
Ike and the incredibly talented company who are hitting the on the road on
tour!" Produced
by Stage
Entertainment, James
L. Nederlander and Tali
Pelman, in association with Tina Turner, TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL was written by
Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and
Kees Prins.  TINA
– THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL is
directed by Tony Award nominee Phyllida
Lloyd with choreography by Tony Award nominee Anthony van Laast,
set and costume designs by Tony Award nominee Mark Thompson, musical Music
Supervision, Arrangements & Incidental Music by Nicholas Skilbeck,
lighting by Tony Award nominee Bruno
Poet, sound by Tony Award nominee Nevin Steinberg,
projection design by Tony Award nominee Jeff Sugg, orchestrations by Tony
Award nominee Ethan
Popp, wigs, hair and makeup design by Drama Desk Award winner
Campbell Young
Associates,
and casting by The
Telsey Office. An
uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the
inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock
n’ Roll. One
of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, Tina Turner has won 12
Grammy Awards and her live shows have been seen by millions, with more
concert tickets sold than any other solo performer in music history. This
new musical based on the life of legendary artist Tina Turner and
presented in association with Tina Turner herself, received its world
premiere in April 2018 in London, where it opened to five-star reviews and
has broken box office records at the Aldwych Theatre. In March 2019, the
German production opened at Stage Operettenhaus in Hamburg, and the Dutch
production opened at the Beatrix Theater, Utrecht, in February 2020. A third
European production opened in Fall 2021 at the Teatro Coliseum in Madrid,
Spain. TINA
– THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL originally opened on
Broadway on November 7, 2019, was nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best
Musical. The production reopened at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on
October 8, 2021, following the 18-month industry wide shut down due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. The Broadway production ended performances Sunday, August
14. Produced
by Stage Entertainment
and Ghostlight
Records and featuring the original London cast, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical:
Original Cast Recording
is available worldwide on CD, both online and in stores. The
CD features a 20-page booklet, which includes liner notes, synopsis, and
production and studio photography. The album was recorded in February 2019 at
Angel Studios and
RAK Studios,
produced by the show’s Music Supervisor Nicholas Skilbeck and Kurt Deutsch, and
co-produced by Tom
Kelly. To download or stream the album, or order the CD,
please visit http://www.ghostlightrecords.lnk.to/riverdeep-tinaturnermusical. When
she was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in October, 2021, Tina Turner
became one of only three women in the institution’s history to be inducted
twice (she was initially inducted in 1991, alongside Ike Turner). The
Emmy-nominated feature documentary TINA
is now available to stream on HBO Max. A revealing and intimate look
at the life and career of musical icon Tina
Turner, TINA
charts her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and
professional struggles throughout her life and her even more improbable
resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s. The feature documentary is
from Academy Award-winning directors Dan
Lindsay, T.J. Martin and Lightbox, the production company
founded by Academy Award-winning producer Simon Chinn and Emmy-winning producer
Jonathan Chinn,
together with Emmy-nominated producer Diane
Becker.  PERFORMANCE
SCHEDULE The
performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday
–
Thursday
7:30 p.m. TICKET
INFORMATION Individual
tickets for TINA –
THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL will go on sale Dec. 2. Tickets will
start at $39 with a select number of premium tickets available. Tickets will
be available at the Fox Theatre box office at 660 Peachtree Street NE,
Atlanta, Georgia 30308, by visiting foxtheatre.org/tina-turner-musical
or by calling (855)-285-8499. Group orders of 10 or more may be placed by
calling the Fox Theatre at (855)-285-8499. |
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