The smash hit show TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL has announced the talented Kristina Love will join the West End cast, sharing the role of Tina herself with Elesha Paul Moses from 12th October 2022. Love joins the Company following her title role in Hamburg, which she played to great critical acclaim. The magic carries on at the Aldwych Theatre, recently extended until 3rd September 2023.
Who’s involved in Tina - The Tina Turner Musical?
This hugely popular production of TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL tells the life story of the legendary artist Tina Turner. Produced in association with Tina herself, the West End world premiere in April 2018 broke all Box Office records at the Aldwych Theatre. The Broadway production has now finished its run, but the show continues in Utrecht and Madrid, and there’s a North American Tour underway. It opens in Germany in March 23 and hits Australia in May.
- Kristina Love was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Houston Texas. At just 11 years old she began studying classical music. A Bachelors of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre Performance from the University of Oklahoma followed. On graduation she relocated to Germany, where she worked in the ensembles of Dirty Dancing, Rocky the Musical, Sister Act, Disney's Aladdin and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She played the title role in the first non-English version of the show in Hamburg
- Elesha Paul Moses, who shares the lead role with Kristina, has had an epic career in the music industry lasting more than over 25 years. Mentored by Matthew Knowles, Will. I. Am and Tom Jones while appearing on The Voice, she has also worked with the house production duo Ku De Ta, superstar Lionel Richie, and industry hero Nicky Graham. She recently led the touring shows Whitney: Queen Of The Night and Tina: What's Love Got To Do With
- Caleb Roberts continues as Ike Turner. He studied at The Brit School and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, making his professional debut playing The King of France opposite Sir Ian McKellen in King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End. More theatre credits include Cinderella at the Gillian Lynne Theatre for which he won a Black British Theatre Award; I Think We Are Alone for Frantic Assembly, She Ventures and He Wins for the Young Vic Theatre and Richard III for Headlong. His television and film credits include Stephen Frears' A Very English Scandal and Petrichor
- Paula Kay plays Tina's mother Zelma Bullock, Charis Alexandra plays Tina's sister Alline Bullock, George Jennings plays Tina's Manager Roger Davies, Irene Myrtle Forrester plays Tina's Grandmother, Kelly Hampson plays Ike and Tina's manager Rhonda Graam, Gregory Haney plays Tina's father Richard Bullock, Cordell Mosteller plays Tina's first love Raymond Hill, Chris Grahamson plays Record Producer Phil Spector and Lyricist Terry Britten and Joseph Richardson plays record company Marketing Manager Erwin Bach
- Ensemble members are Megan Armstrong and Vanessa Dumatey, Thomas Sutcliffe who plays Carpenter, Turrell Barrett-Wallace who plays Tina's son Ronnie and Joey James plays Tina's son Craig, the Ikettes are played by Karis Anderson, Marie Finlayson and Natorii Illidge and swingsare Lauren Allan, Richard Appiah-Sarpong, Joshua Da Costa, Miles Anthony Daley, Amber Sylvia Edwards, Livvy Evans, Imogen Rose Hart, Jaz Robinson, Brad Veitch, Saran Webb and Samuel J Weir
- The children's cast currently comprises Isabella Francis, nine years old from Bromley, Tia Roche, twelve years old from Bedfordshire and Maya Parks, eleven years old from Bromley, who share the role of Young Anna Mae; Cece Somolu, ten years old from Richmond, Kizzy Murrell, eleven years old from Surrey and Eden Butcher, ten years old from Barking, share the role of Young Alline; Spencer Salami, nine years old from Lambeth, Jhobe Duncan, nine years old from Waltham Forest, and Cohen March, eight years old from Lambeth, share the role of Young Craig
- Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins
- Choreographed by Anthony van Laast, with set and costume designs by Mark Thompson, musical supervision by Nicholas Skilbeck, lighting by Bruno Poet, sound by Nevin Steinberg, projection design by Jeff Sugg and orchestrations by Ethan Popp
- TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICALis produced in the West End by Stage Entertainment, Joop van den Ende and Tali Pelman, in association with Tina Turner herself
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