Elle Ma-Kinga N’Zuzi and Jochebel Ohene MacCarthy will share the title role in the first UK and Ireland tour of Tina – The Tina Turner Musical.
After alternating the role of Tina Turner in the Stuttgart production, N’Zuzi (Sweet Charity, Nottingham Playhouse, Kiss Me, Kate, Sheffield Crucible) will share the role with MacCarthy (The Color Purple, Curve Leicester/Birmingham Hippodrome, Hairspray, London Coliseum), who previously alternated the role in the original Australian production. They will star opposite David King-Yombo (Moulin Rouge!, Piccadilly Theatre and Oklahoma!, Wyndham’s Theatre) as Ike Turner.
Due to open at Curve Leicester on 22 March, the tour cast will also include Martin Allanson as record producer Phil Spector, William Beckerleg as record company marketing manager Erwin Bach, Rushand Chambers as Tina’s father, Richard Bullock, Claude East as Tina’s grandmother Gran Georgeanna (GG), Isaac Elder as Tina’s manager Roger Davies, Georgia Gillam as Tina’s sister Alline Bullock, Letitia Hector as Tina’s mother Zelma Bullock, Kyle Richardson as Tina’s first love Raymond Hill and Gemma Sutton as Ike and Tina’s manager Rhonda Graam.
The ensemble members will be Viquichele Cross as Lorraine, Charlotte Elisabeth-Yorke as Toni, Kane Matthews as Tina’s son Craig, Daniel N’Guessan-Lopez as Tina’s son Ronnie and Richard Taylor Woods as Martyn Ware. The Ikettes will be played by D’Mia Lindsay-Walker, Alana Robinson and Sedona Sky. The swings will be Loren Anderson, Ella Howlett, Eleanor Morrison-Halliday, Max Mulrenan, Tom Self and Toby Shellard.
Children’s casting includes: Chloe Angiama, Chizaram Ochuba-Okafor and Ava Wallace-Corbett as Young Anna Mae Bullock, and Shaniyah Abrahams, Lily Bunn and Mariah Martinez as Young Alline/Young Craig.
Following the Leicester Curve run which ends on 22 March the tour will visit Sunderland Empire, Bristol Hippodrome, Grand Opera House Belfast, Bord Gais Energy Theatre Dublin, Birmingham Hippodrome, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Theatre Royal Nottingham, Empire Theatre Liverpool, Cliffs Pavilion Southend, Sheffield Lyceum, King’s Theatre Glasgow, Southampton Mayflower Theatre, Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre, Palace Theatre Manchester, Theatre Royal Norwich, Milton Keynes Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff, Theatre Royal Newcastle and Leeds Grand Theatre.
The longest-running show to play London’s Aldwych Theatre, the West End production is currently booking up to 25 October. Written by award-winning writer Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, the critic and crowd-pleasing story of the superstar singer received its world premiere at the Aldwych in 2018 where it has broken all box office records.
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the show’s creative team also includes choreographer Anthony van Laast; set and costume designer Mark Thompson; musical supervisor Nicholas Skilbeck; lighting designer Bruno Poet; sound designer Nevin Steinberg, projection designer Jeff Sugg and orchestrator Ethan Popp; with wigs, hair and makeup design by Campbell Young Associates; and casting by Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher.
Angela Thomas
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