Ari Groover, who performed as Tina Turner on opening night, gave her all, capturing the frenetic energy and commanding stage presence for which Tina Turner was justly famous.
Now onstage at Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Theatre, through Sunday, February 18, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical gives the full biographical jukebox musical treatment to one of Tennessee’s most talented exports and favorite daughters, with a collection of her greatest musical hits and an incisive book by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall (also one of the Volunteer State’s favorite daughters; she’s from Memphis!) that clearly elevates the material and distinguishes Tina from all the other recent musicals of its ilk.
It s rare that a musical ends with a concert, but that s exactly what happened at the Walton Arts Center Tuesday night for "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical."
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