Soul Sister
From: Saturday, 14th April 2012
To: Saturday, 5 May 2012
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Synopsis
A musical inspired by the life and times of Ike and Tina Turner. Pulsing with heart and soul and featuring classics such as What's Love Got to Do with It, Proud Mary, Private Dancer and River Deep Mountain High. Soul Sister follows the highs and lows, the passions and heartbreak of Ike and Tina Turner as their careers blossomed and their marriage crumbled.
Our Review:
20 April 2012
This is a big, vivid show with a blistering central performance by Emi Wokoma as Tina Turner. If you’ve ever appreciated strong soul music, and prefer theatre when it comes as rock concert, you’ll love this.
In 1956 in St Louis, Anna Mae Bullock, aged just 17, in her Sunday-best coat and ankle socks, auditions for Ike Turner, ace guitarist and band-leader.
Turner realises this huge-voiced girl is going to transform his fortunes, Anna Mae is renamed Tina and falls in love with Ike. Thus begins a 20-year partnership in which the pair and Ike’s band, The Kings of Rhythm, become the hardest-touring outfit in show business.
Against a backdrop of racial segregation and the growth of civil rights, and after years of graft, their brand of powerful rock ‘n’ soul is recognised by the white world and they receive their dues.
In the process Tina, a startlingly confident and compelling performer, suffers Ike’s numerous inf...
Latest User Review
rose poole - 10 June 2012:
This was one of the most amazing shows I have seen and the venue is second to none. Fantastic night....
Cast
Emi Wokoma (Tina Turner)
Chris Tummings (Ike Turner)
Sharon Benson
Nadine Higgin
Ngo Ngofa
Joanne Sandi
Creative
Pete Brooks (Author)
John Miller (Author)
Bill Kenwright (Producer)
John Miller (Producer)
Simply the Best Productions Limited (in association with Hackney Empire) (Producer)
Bob Eaton (Director)
Jason Pennycooke (Choreographer)
Jason Pennycooke (musical staging) (Music)
Pete Brooks (Design)
Laura Hopkins (Design)
Simon Wainwright (projection) (Design)
Nick Richings (Lighting)
Ben Harrison (Sound)
Keith Strachan (musical supervisor/arranger) (Music)
Sean Green (Musical Director)
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