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From the archives: Tina Turner wowed Ottawa with several shows, including blowout greatest-hits tour

Turner died at age 83 on May 23, 2023, after a long illness, according to her manager

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Editor’s note: Tina Turner died at age 83 on May 23, 2023 , after a long illness, according to her manager. Following this news, we’re re-sharing this article written by Lynn Saxberg and originally published on June 10, 2000, about Turner’s career and several Ottawa shows the artist performed over the years. Date and time references have not been altered from their original wording. 

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From the archives: tina turner wowed ottawa with several shows, including blowout greatest-hits tour back to video.

Seventeen years ago this weekend — June 10 and 11, 1983 — Tina Turner was in Ottawa. She played a pre-makeover Barrymore’s, then a gritty rock club, and worked hard for her money.

Turner performed four shows over two nights even though only a few hundred people showed up.

I wanted to be there. Badly. I was a teenager in the process of discovering the blues and had been haunting second-hand record stores. I stumbled on Ike and Tina Turner’s Come Together album.

I bought it because I knew the Beatles song — it spoke to my other musical interest, old psychedelia — and because there was a woman on it.

Tina’s uninhibited shriek was a shock to my tender ears, but I loved it. Her voice was wild and untamed, she was everything that I — a boring white, middle-class suburbanite — was not.

But I wasn’t old enough to get into the club. 

”She rocked,” recalls Dennis Ruffo, the veteran Ottawa promoter who co-presented the show. She had a full backing ensemble, with singers, musicians and multiple costume changes. She also really liked the club’s chicken wings, he says with a laugh.

Turner was taking a break from rehearsals at the time, and looking for material for a new album that would complete her switch from R&B to rock. ”I’m burned out with R&B,” she said in an interview with the Citizen before the show.

Obviously, she found the songs she needed. Less than two years later, when Turner returned to Ottawa, her Private Dancer album had been released, sailed up the charts and fueled one of the most dramatic comebacks in pop-music history.

And in August 1985, Turner played two back-to-back stadium shows at the Ottawa Ex. Ruffo worked on that show, too, which was reviewed as one of the finest Ottawa had ever seen. Must have been the chicken wings — Ruffo remembers that she requested an order from Barrymore’s.

When Turner comes back to Ottawa tomorrow, it will be part of what she has said is her final tour. She’s 60 now, and finds it a lot of work, although fans aren’t likely to notice that her energy has diminished one iota.

At her sold-out concert in Toronto last weekend, she was still the strutting, vamping lioness she’s always been, from the top of her frosted mane to the bottom of her stiletto heels, though she left the highest kicks and the most vigorous hip shakes to the fit young dancers who accompanied her.

”I’m going to take you on a journey of my career — all the way from now back to 1960,” she said early in the evening, setting the tone for a greatest-hits retrospective of a concert.

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The 1960 starting point was A Fool In Love, the smash hit recorded by Ike and Tina Turner while they lived in St. Louis. It was a song of Ike’s, Tina’s ex-husband and the bandleader who discovered her talent, but it was intended for another singer. When he didn’t show up to the studio, Ike turned to the former Anna Mae Bullock to cut the demo.

The song turned heads as soon as it was released. Delivered in Tina’s sexy rasp of a voice, it hit a visceral nerve with its raw, primitive sound, sounding sort of like a female version of James Brown.

When Tina was finally able to tour — she had been in the hospital because of a difficult second pregnancy (Ike’s child) — audiences saw the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, a showy R and B orchestra with bass, drums, guitar, piano, a horn line and a trio of female backup singers — the Ikettes. Everyone was dressed to the nines, the men in suits and ties, the women in slinky full-length gowns, Tina’s pregnancy buried in chiffon. Their approach was taken and polished from Ike’s years on the club circuit with his Kings of Rhythm band.

Ike and Tina had moved to Los Angeles by 1962. They released a string of singles, vibrant and gritty in tone, but not hugely successful. A swaggering cover of Otis Blackwell’s Finger Poppin’ hinted at a change in direction toward a feistier, more rock-edged sound.

During the lean years (in terms of hits), touring became the major source of income. Ike kept his entourage on the road non-stop, working their way across the country, through the Southern states, up the eastern seaboard, across the Midwest, north to Denver and then a downward swing toward home. The route was repeated year after year.

In 1965, wunderkind producer Phil Spector, founder and undisputed king of the ”wall of sound” school of recording, decided he wanted to record a song with Tina. Not Ike.

The song was River Deep-Mountain High, and Spector cracked the whip, as Tina recalled in her autobiography, I, Tina, which was co-written with Kurt Loder.

”That intro — ‘When I was a little girl …’ I must have sung that 500,000 times, and I don’t know if I ever got it just the way he wanted it. I would sing it, and he would say, ‘That’s very close, very close. We’ll try it again.’ I don’t remember him saying ‘Got it.’

”Pretty soon, I was drenched with sweat. I had to take off my shirt and stand there in my bra to sing, that’s how hard I was working on that song.”

The lush production, with its soaring strings, throbbing studio orchestra, and Tina’s riveting vocal on top, was considered a Spector masterpiece. But it flopped on the U.S. charts, and drove Spector into hiding for years.

The song fared much better in England, making it to No. 3 and prompting the Rolling Stones to employ the Ike and Tina Turner Revue as opening act on their British tour. The Stones, like many other British bands, including the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and the Animals were enamoured with American blues and R and B, and saw Ike and Tina as the real thing.

Which, of course, they were. Growing up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Ike used to sneak away at night to watch Pinetop Perkins play piano. Later, he took record executives through the South to meet and record blues legends such as Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and B.B. King. His first band was a younger, more aggressive version of the old R and B swing orchestras.

Even more important to Mick and the boys, Ike and Tina were a great opening act, making the Stones work to surpass their energy. When they opened for the Stones on their U.S. tour in 1969, Ralph Gleason, jazz and pop critic of the San Francisco Chronicle (and co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine) wrote: ”Jagger ought to get a medal for courage in following B.B. King (who was also on the bill) and Tina Turner.” He described Tina as a ”hurricane” and said she ”must be the most sensational female performer on stage.”

Both Stones tours gave Tina a chance to see up close how a rock ‘n’ roll band functioned. She liked what she saw — the music, the playing, the swagger, the rhythm. It was clear they had soaked up the vibe of black music.

Before the Stones tour of 1969, Tina heard some songs she felt she had to sing. She persuaded Ike to let her try them and they worked on the Beatles’ Come Together, the Stones’ Honky Tonk Woman and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Proud Mary. Her versions bristled with energy: here was a black woman interpreting songs written by white bands that were influenced by black music. The songs took on new meaning in Tina’s hands — it was as if she was the honky-tonk woman.

”That was the beginning of me liking rock music,” Tina wrote in her autobiography. ”It wasn’t like we planned it — ‘Now we’re gonna start doing white rock ‘n’ roll songs.’ But those groups were interpreting black music to begin with. They touched on R and B, in a way, but it wasn’t obvious. I mean, it wasn’t the old thing. It was Honky Tonk Woman — wow! I could relate to that.”

Proud Mary was Ike and Tina’s biggest hit in the United States, reaching number four and selling one million copies in 1971. It earned Tina her first Grammy Award, for best R and B vocal performance, and landed the duo on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

Around this time, Ike and Tina’s version of the Otis Redding song, I’ve Been Loving You Too Long, which was on the charts in 1969, was a staple of their live show. Complete with Tina writhing and moaning, its blatant sexuality cemented her image as a sex symbol. Tina, however, found it embarrassing after a while — she says it was Ike who kept the song in the show for so long.

Turner was almost 34 when Nutbush City Limits was released. It was a big hit in the U.S.; an even bigger hit in Britain, sparking talk of an Ike and Tina comeback. But the song, an autobiographical ditty written by Tina herself, was their last single to crack the top 30.

While Ike snorted cocaine, gambled thousands and spent a fortune outfitting his recording studio, Tina was developing her inner strength through Buddhist chanting. In 1975, she made a splash as the Acid Queen (and sang the song of the same name) in the film rendition of the Who’s rock opera, Tommy, a role that boosted her confidence even more, partly because Ike, who had controlled her life for so long, was not involved.

Tina made her first ‘solo’ album in 1974. It was recorded at Ike’s studio, but with an outside producer and musicians. Tina Turns the Country On didn’t sell well, and it’s no wonder: it was out of character, a country album of cover songs by the likes of Hank Snow, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson, James Taylor and Bob Dylan.

Tina finally left Ike on Independence Day weekend in 1976, although the divorce was not final until two years later. She needed to rebuild her career, which she began, tentatively, with shows on the supper-club circuit and then a solo album called Rough. It contained evidence of Tina’s increasing infatuation with rock music in a cover of Bob Seger’s Fire Down Below, but the album sank and she was dropped by the record company.

In debt to promoters and the Internal Revenue Service to the tune of some $400,000, Tina had her first meeting with Lee Kramer and then-partner, Roger Davies, the young Australian who would become her manager and change her career.

They decided to take her on after seeing her perform in a hotel ballroom: ”Tina came on and she had so much energy, she blew me away. It was amazing … I thought, ‘Well, the second show can’t be as good.’ But it was better. People were standing on tables; the chandeliers were shaking,” Davies said in I, Tina.

But Davies thought the show was too Vegas; the band too disco in their silver tuxedos. He knew Tina needed a rock band behind her. She had to ditch the glitzy Bob Mackie costumes and the long wigs.

In 1981, Tina and her hot new band made their public debut at the Ritz in New York City in front of a crowd that included Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Mary Tyler Moore and other celebrities. She was a huge success. A return engagement was just as triumphant. In the audience was Rod Stewart, who invited Tina to join him on Saturday Night Live that weekend. They sang Stewart’s hit, Hot Legs, reminding millions of viewers of the power of Tina’s performance. Three stadium shows opening for the Rolling Stones in New Jersey left no doubt.

Sometime later, a request came from two young British producers, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig, who would go on to become the synth-pop group Heaven 17. They were compiling an album of their favourite pop songs, done to electronic backing tracks, and wanted Tina Turner to sing Ball of Confusion.

Fearful of getting stuck in the R and B rut again, Tina almost backed out when she found out they had the old Temptations hit lined up for her. But she did the track and impressed Ware and Craig so much they invited her to come back and do a record.

In a move that’s now part of rock history, she did return to the duo to record Let’s Stay Together. It was 1983, sometime after Tina’s aforementioned club date in Ottawa, and by the end of the year the song was a top 5 hit in Britain. It was the first glimmer of what would become Tina’s breakthrough album.

Davies cobbled together more producers and songs, including a track written by Mark Knopfler, Private Dancer, that didn’t make the last Dire Straits album. The songs fell into place, including What’s Love Got To Do With It, Better Be Good To Me, I Might Have Been Queen, Steel Claw (with Jeff Beck on guitar), an electronic version of Ann Peebles’ I Can’t Stand the Rain and David Bowie’s 1984.

The album cruised up the charts, reaching No. 3 by September and staying there for three months, topped by two of that year’s blockblusters: Prince’s Purple Rain and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. Private Dancer defined the 45-year-old singer as sexy, cool, proud and defiant. It also showed that she could really sing — not just scream. And when word got out on the abuse she suffered from Ike, she was seen as the ultimate survivor.

Described by the New York Times as ”two sensational legs topped by an explosion of hair,” Turner swept the 1984 Grammy Awards (presented in February 1985), winning best record and best female pop vocal performance for What’s Love Got to Do with It and best female rock vocal performance for Better Be Good To Me.

Tina ended 1985 starring in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome with Mel Gibson. She dueted with Mick Jagger in the massive Live Aid event. By this time, she had enough money to do whatever she wanted. So she cranked out another album.

Break Every Rule was widely considered a restatement of Private Dancer, but scored a hit in the put-down song Typical Male.

Then came the 1989 album Foreign Affair, a polished and sophisticated outing (popular for the song, The Best), though it was criticized by some for not having any harder-edged rock material for Tina to strut her stuff on.

And while Tina would occasionally talk about retiring from touring, she mounted elaborate tours for Foreign Affair and 1993’s What’s Love Got To Do With It soundtrack, which accompanied the Hollywood movie about Tina’s life. Both tours stopped in Ottawa.

She toured again in support of the album Wildest Dreams in 1996, which updated her sound in a Europop style, with guest appearances by Sting, U2’s Bono and The Edge, the Pet Shop Boys producers Trevor Horn and Nellie Hooper and even Barry White.

But with her 60th birthday approaching, Tina decided last year to give up life on the road in favour of boating, gardening, learning French and spending time at her villa in Switzerland with longtime beau, EMI executive Erwin Bach.

”I’ve worked more than half of my life,” she said in announcing her farewell tour. ”Now I don’t want to schedule. What I want to do now is still make a statement by recording. I’ll still do my videos. I’ll do TV specials, musical specials. I’ll be a guest star periodically every now and then.”

This year’s album, Twenty Four Seven, marks Tina’s 25th anniversary as a solo artist. The first single, When The Heartache Is Over, was co-written by John Reid of Nightcrawlers and produced by Metro, the London team behind Cher’s multimillion-selling disc Believe. The disc also includes a cameo appearance by Bryan Adams, Turner’s longtime friend, with whom she sang on the 1985 hit, It’s Only Love.

The new disc’s easy pace and soft-pop approach seems to indicate that Tina is preparing for a graceful bow from big stadium touring. In concert, the impression is anything but.

She is going out kicking and screeching in a burst of fireworks and special effects. She’s playing almost every song she’s known for, and then some. It’s a two-hour spectacle that only a few artists can pull off. 

Tina Turner is one of those artists.

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Tina Turner’s intimate and unexpected connection to St. John’s and Newfoundland

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Tina Turner is being remembered in Newfoundland and Labrador for her kindness, her connection with the province, and for the series of unforgettable shows she played in St. John’s to kick off the North American tour for her biggest album.

Geoff Meeker was a 28-year-old writer and editor with The Newfoundland Herald magazine when Turner arrived in St. John’s in July 1985 to launch the “Private Dancer” tour, which helped reinvent her career. The small province on Canada’s East Coast had never seen anything like the four shows Turner and her band played at Memorial Stadium, he said.

“She was on top of the world at that point,” Meeker said in an interview Thursday. “She could have played anywhere in the world. But she came here because it was backwater. She was attracted by the fact that it was a quiet place, a beautiful place.”

Meeker said Turner and her band arrived about a week before her first show, and they could be spotted walking casually down Water Street, which is the main street in St. John’s.

“People would say to her, ‘Hi Tina!’ And that was it,” he said.

“They’d keep on going, and there was no mobbing of her at all,” he said, adding that she was kind and warm to everyone who approached her, including him.

Turner died Wednesday at the age of 83. She is being remembered across the globe as a formidable singer and performer, whose life was an awe-inspiring story of triumph.

She released “Private Dancer” when she was 44, eight years after she’d escaped an abusive marriage to Ike Turner, with whom she’d built a successful career in the 1960s and ‘70s. The album was a massive hit that sold more than eight million copies and won four Grammys. “Private Dancer” and its accompanying tour firmly established Turner as a solo artist, in a feat said to be among the greatest comebacks in pop music history.

Needless to say, it was a big deal for Turner to launch part of that tour in Newfoundland and Labrador, which was home to about 579,000 people in 1985, said Marit Stiles.

“It was the talk of the town. I feel like at that moment we felt like we were at the centre of the universe,” said Stiles, who was 15 at the time. She grew up in Newfoundland and is now the leader of Ontario’s New Democrat Party.

Stiles couldn’t get tickets to the show, but she was babysitting for two kids just down the street from the St. John’s stadium where Turner played. She said she could hear the concert – and all of the wild cheering – when she opened the windows.

“I can very clearly remember hearing the songs enough that I could make them out, and feeling like I was close enough to it, to something really big and important happening,” Stiles said. She remembers feeling proud that someone like Turner felt that Newfoundland was a safe place to launch a show that was clearly going to help define her career.

Stiles said Turner was an inspiration to her 15-year-old self, and that admiration has only grown as Stiles entered middle age.

“To see that you can have that whole new career, that whole new life, and come back in such a powerful way,” Stiles said. “She was somebody that I think a lot of people looked up to, and continue to.”

Tina Turner sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 12 Grammys, and she was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: first with Ike in 1991, and then as a solo artist in 2021. Her life became the basis for a film, a Broadway musical and an HBO documentary in 2021 that she called her public farewell.

– With files from the Associated Press

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Remembering Tina Turner: Her Vancouver concerts were simply the best

A rock 'n' soul road warrior, Tina Turner left impressions on generations of local listeners

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Like any road warrior, Tina Turner rolled into Vancouver more than a few times over the course of her 66-plus-year career.

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The singer — who was born Anna Mae Bullock on Nov. 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tenn. — died on Wednesday in Küsnacht, Switzerland, following a long illness. She was 83.

A look back at the archives proves Turner was no stranger to Vancouver. From her early days to the heights of her solo career, the queen of rock ‘n’ soul stirred local listeners’ hearts on many occasions.

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One of the earliest gigs on record is the July 24, 1974, visit by the Ike & Tina Turner Revue to Baceda’s located at 1607 East Hastings. A hot spot for blues, funk, soul and Motown artists, the venue hosted B.B. King, James Brown, Little Richard, the Miracles and many more.

According to a Setlist.fm entry for the show, the group that at the time was considered the hottest live act in R&B performed a set that included covers of I’ve Been Loving You Too Long and Respect to the duo’s hit version of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Proud Mary.

Less than a year later, Vancouver Sun photographer Glenn Baglo captured Turner in full flight when the Ike and Tina Turner Revue played a dance at BCIT on Feb. 8, 1975.

Province reviewer Jeani Read noted that the show was a one-night stand before the group appeared for a three-night residency at the Cave. She described the vocalist in full flight “teeth gnashing and hair flying like whips, she burns efficiently and effectively through her material, true-to-form devilish and deadly and bewitching, treading the fine line between seduction and sarcasm with finely tuned accuracy.”

The revue would disband in 1976 and Turner would continue working as a solo artist. After rising to the heights of touring with the likes of the Rolling Stones, she was back grinding out multi-night club tours, such as at the Commodore Ballroom in April, 1983.

Then came the release of Private Dancer in 1984.

Not only was her fifth album the best-selling of her career, hitting seven-times platinum in Canada alone, it also earned the artist four Grammy Awards. Among these was song of the year for the iconic ballad What’s Love Got to Do With It?

In 1985, she would make Canadian music history by introducing Canadian Hall of Fame inductee and North Vancouver rocker Bryan Adams for a performance of the duo’s song It’s Only Love at that year’s Juno Awards.

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In an industry known for its ageism, particularly for female acts, Turner was back on top at age 44. She never left after that, selling out arenas worldwide in subsequent tours.

Photos from her sold-out Vancouver date in 1987 prove all the firepower of her early days remained in full force. The Vancouver Sun review of a concert at the Pacific Coliseum on Oct. 6, 1987, noted “Turner sang 13 songs and three encores for 10,000 fans.”

On May 13, 2000, Turner played a sold-out show on her farewell tour. Performing a 22-tune career-spanning set, she wow’ed fans with hits ranging from River Deep, Mountain High to We Don’t Need Another Hero (ThunderDome) and well-chosen covers such as Rod Stewart’s Hot Legs.

On Nov. 27, 2000, she paid her final visit to Vancouver on a second goodbye encore performance. The singer had celebrated her 61st birthday the day before the show.

Vancouver Sun reviewer Kerry Gold was impressed, noting how hypnotizing it was to watch “ Turner doing her famous, long-legged funky mama strut across the stage, and making the mere mortals among us wonder how she can go for two solid hours without appearing to break a sweat, lose her breath or twist an ankle in those four-inch heels.”

Tina Turner was simply the best.

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“tina”  the tina turner musical, the full monty, toronto, on, july 26 – 28, 2024, 3 – day tour.

THERE IS ONLY ONE. HER VOICE IS UNDENIABLE. HER FIRE IS UNSTOPPABLE. HER TRIUMPH IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER.

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. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters.

Jolly Tours seen this performance in London, UK Fall 2023 and it was deemed to be the “best show” our Tour Director has seen in all the years!

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This will be an experienced packed weekend, starting with a delightful dinner harbour cruise upon arrival in Toronto. Day two has us visiting a place called “Little Canada” …. imagine an immersive journey through the sights, sounds and wonders of Canada on a miniature scale, you can even add yourself to the exhibit if you wish!

Late afternoon we are off to pre-theatre dinner before our performance of “TINA” at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre.

Day three is sure to delight with a scrumptious Sunday brunch before we make our way eastbound, towards home, but not without a stop for a second show this afternoon on the way! Located in Port Hope, the Capitol Theatre was designated a National Historic Site in 2016, having debuted in 1930 as a premium Canadian entertainment venue. This afternoon, look forward to a performance of “The Full Monty” A raucous, pop-rock-musical that takes it all off!

While spying on their wives at a “Girls’ Night Out,” a group of unemployed steelworkers from Buffalo come up with a bold (and unclothed) way to make some quick cash. In preparing for the show, they find themselves extremely exposed, both physically and emotionally. As they conquer their fears, self-consciousness, and prejudices, the men come to discover that they are stronger as a group, and the strength that they find in each other gives them the individual courage to let it all go.

Inclusions and Costs

• Transportation via Deluxe Motorcoach
• Two Nights’ Hotel – Downtown Toronto
• Toronto Dinner Harbour Cruise
• Entry to “Little Canada”
• Breakfast Day Two
• Sunday Brunch Day Three
• Pre-Theatre Dinner, Day Two
• Reserved Orchestra Floor Ticket – “TINA” The Musical
• Reserved Seating “The Full Monty” Broadway Musical
• Baggage Handling (1 Piece Per Guest)
• All applicable Taxes & Gratuities on Included meals
• Jolly Tour Director

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Remembering Tina Turner

Jully black, michael williams, garvia bailey and amanda hess reflect on the legacy of the late legend.

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The Queen of rock 'n' roll, Tina Turner has died at the age of 83. To celebrate Turner's life and all the music she gave us, Jully Black , Michael Williams , Garvia Bailey and Amanda Hess join in conversation about the legacy of the late singer.

She died peacefully in her Switzerland home after a long illness, her representative said on Wednesday.

WATCH | Legendary singer Tina Turner dead at 83:

You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts .

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There was only one. Her voice was undeniable. Her fire was unstoppable. Her triumph was unlike any other. 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. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters. One of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, Tina Turner won 12...

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There was only one.

Her voice was undeniable. Her fire was unstoppable. Her triumph was unlike any other.

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. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters.

One of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, Tina Turner won 12 Grammy Awards and her live shows were seen by millions, with more concert tickets sold than any other solo performer in music history.

Featuring her much loved songs, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by the internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd.

TINA − The Tina Turner Musical is recommended for ages 14+. The production includes loud music, strobe lighting, haze, gun shots, scenes depicting domestic violence and strong language.

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TINA: The Tina Turner Musical is coming to Toronto.

Mirvish Productions just announced their 2023-24 subscription series featuring 7 musicals, which will end with the Canadian premiere of  TINA – The Tina Turner Musical .

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The dazzling tribute will highlight  Tina Turner's triumphant story, from humble beginnings in Tennessee to her rise to become the global Queen of Rock ‘n Roll, set to the soundtrack of her greatest hits.

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by the internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd behind Mamma Mia!, the musical has received rave reviews so far.

Using iconic songs like “Proud Mary,” “Private Dancer” and “The Best”, the hit musical tells the story of a woman who dared to defy the bounds of her age, gender and race.

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The musical premiered in London in 2018 and opened the following year on Broadway, which closed last August. The tour is currently making its way across North America.

Unfortunately, you'll still have to wait awhile longer as TINA: The Tina Turner Musical won't be in Toronto until June - July 2024. In the meantime, you can check out what else is coming in the Mirvish subscription series.

The other 6 musicals within the subscription series include In Dreams, SIX, Jagged Little Pill, 42nd Street, Disney's Aladdin, and Les Misérables.

Main Mirvish Subscriptions start at $279, which include flexible ticket exchanges, priority booking on all shows, and exclusive benefits. To subscribe, you can visit their website or call.

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More than two decades after Tina Turner’s “Farewell Tour” stop in Vancouver, the city is saying a final goodbye to the legendary singer-songwriter, who died Wednesday at age 83.

From her earliest performances in Vancouver as part of the Ike and Tina Revue, to her last at Rogers Arena in 2000, Turner has had an impact on residents across the Lower Mainland, based on the tributes pouring in on social media.

SIMPLY THE BEST SINGER WAS ‘TOTALLY AMAZING’

Photographer Bev Davies remembers her first time seeing Turner perform at The Cave Supper Club in the 70s as part of the Ike and Tina Revue, before the downtown Vancouver venue closed in 1981, and prior to the couple’s public and messy separation.

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Besides the show at The Cave, Davie says she saw Ike and Tina Turner perform at Baceda’s Nightclub and, years later, photographed Tina Turner’s debut solo concert at The Commodore Ballroom in 1982.

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“When she left Ike and recreated her career, it was really, really hard for her. Everyone wanted to talk about the abuse,” said Davie. “I just wanted to tell her we’re sorry—of course that’s what we wanted to hear about but it was hard for her.”

Davie’s favourite song by Tina Turner is a classic—Proud Mary—but she says people should take time to listen to some of the artist’s earlier work.

“I’m thinking about pulling out some records. Maybe that’s what we should all do,” she said.

LIGHT MEMORIES, HEAVY HEARTS

Luisa Marshall, a Turner tribute artist based in Vancouver, knows the late singer’s discography well.

After learning of her icon’s death on Wednesday, Marshall wrote on Facebook that her heart is heavy and broken.

“I have no words right now. Just tears and sadness,” said Marshall, who’s career as a Turner tribute artist began in 1995 and has included performances on both The Oprah Winfrey and The Ellen DeGeneres shows.

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Great duet! My favorite Tina Turner memory was her 'Tiny Dancer' comeback concert in Vancouver. What a show! What a legend! What an inspiration! Rest in peace Queen of Rock 🙏💕 https://t.co/9U6q1AQgzG

“There will never be another Tina!” John Kovacic tweeted in a post about his favourite concert—and Ike and Tina Revue performance in the 70s that was part of the Vancouver Jazz Festival.

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“With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model,” Bernard Doherty said in a statement.

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Ari Groover as 'Tina Turner' in the North American tour of TINA - The Tina Turner Musical. Photo by Matt Murphy for MurphyMade, 2023

Zurin Villanueva performing as ‘Tina Turner’ and Garrett Turner as 'Ike Turner' in the North American touring production of TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL. Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade, 2022

Zurin Villanueva and Ari Groover as 'Tina Turner' 2022-2023. Photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade.

Ari Groover as 'Tina Turner' and the cast of the North American touring production of TINA - The Tina Turner Musical. Photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade, 2023.

Zurin Villanueva as ‘Tina Turner’ in the North American touring production of TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL. Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade, 2022

TINA – The Tina Turner Musical

June 18 - July 28, 2024

CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre

244 Victoria St , Toronto ON , M5B 1V8

Performance Schedule

Tuesday - Saturday: 8PM Wednesday: 1:30PM Saturday & Sunday: 2PM

Running Time

2 hours 40 minutes (includes intermission)

Use of strobe lighting, loud music, gun shots, haze and scenes including violence and domestic violence. Recommended for ages 14+.

Real-time closed captioning right to your own personal mobile device.  Available for all performances.   Visit the GalaPro page for more info.

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THERE IS ONLY ONE.

HER VOICE IS UNDENIABLE. HER FIRE IS UNSTOPPABLE. HER TRIUMPH IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER.

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. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters.

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.

Featuring her much loved songs, TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL   is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by the internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd .

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Her voice is undeniable! Her fire is unstoppable! Her triumph is unlike any other! The inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock n' Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits. A matinee performance at The Ed Mirvish Theatre. Includes lunch. 

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Board a luxury motor coach for a musical day in Toronto! Enjoy an included lunch at Hot House restaurant followed by a matinee performance of TINA – The Tina Turner Musical at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.

TINA – The Tina Turner Musical : 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. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters.

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Musical About Life of Tina Turner Coming To Tulsa

Saturday, May 11th 2024, 11:14 pm

Tina Turner died almost one year ago at 83 years old, and the musical about her life will come to Tulsa for eight performances.

Tina Turner performed several times in Tulsa, and News On 6 visited some of those iconic stops.

"Tina, the Tina Turner Musical" is coming to the Tulsa Performing Arts Center May 14th through the 19 th .

"It's a fantastic show, a really compelling story about Tina Turner coming from her roots in Tennessee all the way to becoming a huge rockstar. Obviously, lots of ups and downs,” said Kristin Dotson, Celebrity Attractions CEO.

The "Queen of Rock 'n Roll" has visited Tulsa many times, dating back to the 1960s.

Lester "Doc" Shaw owns the Historic Big 10 Ballroom near Apache and Peoria and said the Ike & Tina Turner Revue performed there many times.

"Everybody I talked to said how energetic the band was, how nice she was. It was an amazing time,” said Shaw.

Tina Turner also performed at ORU's Mabee Center 40 years ago.

"May 15, 1984, I believe Tina was just sort of making her comeback and she came out on tour with Lionel Richie, who probably at the time, was probably one of the biggest stars in America,” said Tony Winters, Mabee Center General Manager.

Those who got to see her perform say her shows are unforgettable.

“The Tina Turner Private Dancer Tour in 1985 was my very first concert,” said Dotson. “I was here in Iowa City at the Carver Hawkeye Arena, and it was the tour where she had the shirtless, muscley saxophone player."

Now, one year after her death, Green Country welcomes the Broadway show about her life as young musicians continue to be inspired by her legacy.

Shaw said music students from his non-profit are excited to meet one of the lead actors in the show.

"They're going to allow her to come here and talk to the students and talk about where she's been and those kinds of things and her experience on Broadway,” said Shaw.

Celebrity Attractions said the show has two different actresses that rotate in the lead role because the role is so demanding physically and emotionally.

Tickets are still available at TulsaPAC.com.

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