In 1939, Anna Mae Bullock was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, the youngest of three daughters. Initially she lived with her grandmother after her parents separated. Her life was often lonely and difficult and marked by poverty but her love of singing in the community church gave her great comfort, serving her well early on in her turbulent life. Anna Mae was destined to become the incomparable Tina Turner.
When as a teenager, she met the domineering Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm Band, one of the best and worst segments of what would become a truly adventurous journey began. Come learn about her career and how meeting a young singer Ike Turner would change her life forever, at the Palace Theater in Waterbury in “TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL” written by Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins.
From Saturday, November 1 at 8 p.m. to Sunday, November 2 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., come meet the woman crowned with the title “The Queen of Rock and Roll.” Jayna Elise will embody the role of playing this fiery icon, along with the violent and abusive Ike Turner, her mother Zelma Bullock, her grandmother Gran Georgeanna and Ike Turner’s manager and later Tina’s manager, Rhonda. This show, with the blessing of Tina Turner herself, has won 12 Grammy Awards and received the same amount of Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical. With its world premiere in London in April of 2018, it opened on Broadway in November of 2019 and reopened in October 2021 after being closed for the pandemic.
Being inducted in 1991 with Ike Turner to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she is only one of three women in the institution’s history to be inducted twice. The second time was in October of 2021 when she was 81. Come hear her music raise the rafters with her signature songs like “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” “Proud Mary," “Private Dancer,” “River Deep-Mountain High,” ”A Fool in Love,” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” two dozen in all. Under the direction of internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd, Tina’s songs and story are sure to ignite your heart and soul in a triumphant comeback tale like no other.
With choreography by Tony Award nominee Anthony van Laast and set and twenty costume designs by Tony Award nominee Mark Thompson, this show is stuffed with superlatives and resonates with spirit and joy.
For tickets ($49 and up), call the Palace, 100 East Main Street, Waterbury at 203-346-2000 or online at palacetheaterct.org.
Come see and hear for yourself that Tina Turner is and will always be “simply the best."
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