Tina The Musical Tickets

Nutbush City Limits. Simply the Best. What's Love Got to do With it. We Don't Need Another Hero. They're just four of a stream of fantastic tunes made famous by Tina Turner. She's sold more than 180 million singles and albums. In 2008-09 she starred in one the highest selling ticketed shows of the year. Now there's a musical on the cards, designed to celebrate her awesome career and fascinating life.

It's all thanks to Stage Entertainment, who have just confirmed they'll be developing a sizzling new musical based on Tina Turner’s extraordinary story. On Friday 16th December 2016, Tina Turner herself turned up to meet the London-based creative and production teams and see the workshop presentation of the show.

The high calibre and extensive experience of those involved says a lot about the kind of show it's going to be. The writer Katori Hall is collaborating with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins. The director Phyllida Lloyd is involved, as is the set and costume designer Mark Thompson. The choreographer Anthony van Laast and musical supervisor Nicholas Skilbeck are on the team. Wow.

The highly experienced and seriously talented Tali Pelman is the Group Creative Director of Stage Entertainment. In her words, “It’s been an honour for us all to collaborate so closely with Tina Turner on this project. Tina is a music legend and her iconic songs are matched only by the power and inspiration of her remarkable and moving story. We are delighted to be working with Katori Hall, whose writing has a heart and humour that beautifully captures Tina’s life story, and to have the extraordinary director Phyllida Lloyd at the helm of such a talented creative team. It’s been exciting today to see the project move into its next phase.”

By all accounts the star herself is also delighted about the whole thing. As Tina Turner said, “We have been working on the musical for over a year now and today I am delighted to be able to share our news as we begin the next chapter of our journey. It has been wonderful to collaborate with Katori and Phyllida and to have my story nurtured by such an amazing creative team is thrilling. London has always had a very special place in my heart and it’s wonderful to be back.”

As you can imagine, a show like this doesn't just spring fully-formed off the page. It takes a great deal of hard work to grow it from the germ of an idea to an all-singing, all-dancing musical. We'll announce more details as they become available. In the meantime if you're a massive Tina fan, rest assured your dreams are about to come true...