It’s one thing to watch a bio-jukebox musical about a star who has long been gone but quite another to sit in the audience for a show about a legend who passed toward the tail end of her eponymous show’s inaugural North American tour, jessicagelt writes.
“Sing like you are singing to the god inside yourself,” Phil Spector says to Turner in the first act of the show. Turner says she knows just how to do that, and it’s easy to believe that she is a kind of god. Certain artists’ gifts are so great that they seem touched by the divine. Mere mortals can only wonder what it might feel like to belt out one’s emotions with a voice like Turner’s.
In this way, the show welcomes reflection on the nature of genius — how it doesn’t always arrive in a neat package, and rarely serves up a happy ending. Many of the musical geniuses of the 20th century are dying. In the last decade alone we have lost Aretha Franklin, Tom Petty, Chuck Berry, Prince, David Bowie, B.B. King, Leonard Cohen and Burt Bacharach, to name only a few.Here are a few of the photos illustrating Tina Turner’s long stint in the spotlight.
These musicians represent a moment in time for music that will never come around again — a singular ripple in the space-time continuum of history. As with members of the Greatest Generation who fought in WWII and are no longer around to tell their stories, we will soon reach an era where almost no one remains who can remember what it felt like to watch Billie Holiday in concert, or to see Elvis wiggle his pelvis for the first time on national TV.
For this reason, the “Tina” musical resonates differently in the wake of the icon’s death. What was once a highly enjoyable show — light on storytelling but heavy on musical thrills — is now a symbol of all that we are losing as rock ’n’ roll inevitably shifts from a groundbreaking form of revolution into formulaic complacency.
Turner represented many things to many people, and love for her — and music’s ineffable soul — had everything to do with it.Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays. Ends June 9.
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