When the North American tour of “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical” comes to the Nederlander Theatre in March, Chicago audiences will meet not one, but two Tinas: Naomi Rodgers and Zurin Villanueva.
Each plays the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll four times per week in the biographical jukebox musical, presented in association with Tina Turner herself, which has played on Broadway and in several European productions since its 2018 London premiere.
The musical features the characters of Rhonda Graam, Turner’s close friend and one-time manager, and Roger Davies, the manager who helped launch Turner’s solo career after she left Ike. While playing a real-life rock star may seem daunting, one benefit is that there is plenty of source material to draw from. Villanueva cited two books as key parts of her research — Tina’s 1986 autobiography “I, Tina” and her 2020 memoir “Happiness Becomes You.”
She also reiterated that the show is about “how you can get broken down and how you can build yourself back up. I think that’s where my power comes in for my Tina — the breaking down and the coming back up.”Zurin Villanueva and Ann Nesby in the Broadway tour of"Tina - The Tina Turner Musical" at Nederlander Theatre.
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