“Yes, the jukebox musical can get tricky sometimes. It’s like, ‘How do we fit this music into a story’?”encapsulates the darkness which marred Tina’s early life and career, admitted on the red carpet. “Thankfully, here’s a story where Tina’s music paralleled her life.”
A case can be made that more than a few recent bio-jukebox attempts have bent the medium and the musical into irreparable shapes. But if ever there was a queen whose story — one of ancestry and family, of childhood neglect lived again as spousal abuse, of a fall from grace and a glorious second act — writes itself as theater, it’s Tina’s.
“You see her at her lowest lows and her highest highs, and she’s someone who’s had the lowest of lows,” remarked “But, somehow, no matter what obstacle was put in her way, she was able to overcome it, to be resilient and to come out on the other side with love and light,” Warren toldat Jazz at Lincoln Center, where cast, crew and friends gathered for the opening night after-party.
In that tumultuous narrative — one many of her fans experienced alongside her — is a sense of ownership to protect this story and artist.Myra Lucretia Taylor
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