Tina Turner Has Passed Away
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pablitonizer
Chorus Member Joined: 4/8/21
#3Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 2:50pm
Simply the best.
"It's an idiom, you idiot!"
#4Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 2:55pm
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
#5Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 2:57pm
Not just a Super Star. A Super Woman.
SEMPER FORTIS
Updated On: 5/24/23 at 02:57 PM
#6Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:01pm
WOW NOOOOO.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
thirtythirtyninety
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
#7Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:06pm
The Greatest. Her like will never be seen again. RIP
#8Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:13pm
Listening to her music right now. Jesus, this one hits me as hard as losing Sondheim did.
#9Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:13pm
RIP to a legend.
It's upsetting to think of how few genuine legends we have left.
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#10Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:17pm
ICON
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
verywellthensigh
Stand-by Joined: 6/14/22
#11Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:26pm
Kenneth Anger also died in the last 24 hours. Some people you simply think are going to live forever.
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#12Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:29pm
Ugh, what a seismic loss.
I wish she had received a bio-musical that was worthy of her talents and impact. I know she was credited as a producer on it, but it just seemed quaint and hokey compared to her real life.
#13Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:36pm
For many of us, this will be the biggest gut punch since Sondheim’s passing.
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#14Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:46pm
Wow, I just went online and this is the first thing I see. Tina’s music got me through some difficult times and her loss is huge to me. Her contribution to the world can’t be put into words. This is so sad.
Updated On: 5/24/23 at 03:46 PM
#15Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 3:50pm
Training staff today. Trying to keep it together until tonight. I predict a good cry in my hotel room tonight. No words suffice to describe her impact on me & the world.
#16Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 4:09pm
I read this in my email and immediately burst into tears and have crying ever since! An amazing woman and performer! The very first time I saw her, during "Proud Mary", during one of her spins, I caught a drop of her sweat on my right cheek! She was a fantastic force of nature!...
#17Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 4:12pm
The music world lost a true icon! The Queen of Rock & Roll has left this earth! May she rest in peace!
#18Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 4:53pm
So tragic.
In a weird timing/twist of fate: the Tina tour is in lay -off week. They do not perform again until 5/30. I am curious what they will do in Tina’s honor when they return, and kind of a funny coincidence that Tina passed on their layoff week.
phantom8019
Featured Actor Joined: 12/6/05
#19Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/24/23 at 7:02pm
I was 4 years old when Tina Turner released the song "What's Love Got to Do with It?" and it was the first time in my short life that I ever noticed a song entirely on my own--that I said, "Hey, I like that!" Until then I had only heard standard kid fare, like "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "The Wheels on the Bus." I quickly became obsessed with "What's Love Got to Do with It?" and the music video. I would walk around the house singing it, driving my family crazy because I really didn't know or understand the lyrics. My sister kept trying to explain to me that the lyric is not "What's love but a second hand in motion" but actually "What's love but a second hand emotion." I certainly did not understand the difference, but boy did I love that song.
Around age 6, one of my 13-year-old brother's friends made fun of me when I proudly announced Tina Turner was my favorite singer. He was shocked and concerned and informed me that I can't like her because she's "88 years old." (She was in her 40s at the time, so I have no idea what that was about.) I didn't listen to him anyway, because with her stylish hair and denim jacket in that video she was simply the coolest thing ever. Wasn't it obvious to everyone? Oh and she was a woman totally in charge in that video, another thing my young self had never seen.
We had these very nice next-door neighbors, and one time their teenage kids played a harmless cute little trick on me. I forget what it was because it was so insignificant. Again, I was 6 or 7. But I was livid about it and demanded that to make things better they "buy me a Tina Turner poster." A few days later they actually showed up at my house with a poster--but Madonna. They said they looked all over the mall for Tina but couldn't find her, so would Madonna do? My mother was very annoyed that I guilted these older kids into buying me a poster, and she told them they really shouldn't have, but what could she do? I was allowed to keep it.
Ten years ago, in my 30s, I hadn't heard the song in a while. So one day I listened to it, just the song, no music video, over and over again, and got in touch with my little young self. Thanks, Tina, for introducing me to real music.
I think we are all born sleeping within ourselves, slowly waking up to who we actually are (if we are permitted, if we are allowed to bloom). I would honestly say that this song was one of maybe 15 significant awakenings across my life because it showed me real music for the first time, and music is one of the most important things to me as an adult, from Bach to Broadway.
Penna2
Broadway Star Joined: 2/24/18
#21Tina Turner Has Passed Away
Posted: 5/25/23 at 12:21am
I first saw her live (with Ike) when I was about 10 years old. I will never get that Proud Mary out of my head.
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