Producers of the forthcoming UK & Ireland tour of TINA – The Tina Turner Musical have announced casting for the show.
The tour kicks off at the Curve in Leicester on 6 March 2025, and then visits Sunderland, Bristol, Belfast, Dublin, Birmingham, Plymouth, Nottingham, Liverpool, Southend, Sheffield, Glasgow, Southampton, Canterbury, Edinburgh, Manchester, Norwich, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Newcastle, and Leeds. See all tour dates & booking here
Starring in the show will Elle Ma-Kinga N’Zuzi (Moulin Rouge! Das Musical) and Jochebel Ohene MacCarthy (Ghost the Musical), who will share the role of music legend Tina Turner.
Elle Ma-Kinga N’Zuzi joins the tour having alternated the role of Tina Turner in the Stuttgart production of the show. Jochebel Ohene MacCarthy has alternated the role of Tina Turner in the original Australian production.
They will be joined by David King-Yombo (Moulin Rouge!) as Ike Turner.
Other principal cast 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.
Ensemble members are 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 are played by D’Mia Lindsay-Walker, Alana Robinson and Sedona Sky and swings are 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.
Tina also continues its run at the West End’s Aldwych Theatre, where it has played for over 6 years, and is currently booking until 25 October 2025.
The show is a success around the world, with 8 productions having opened including on Broadway, a US tour, Germany, Spain, Netherlands and Australia. The show is currently on tour in both North America and Australia.
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is the story of legendary artist Tina Turner, the twelve-time Grammy Award winning Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her iconic hits, including The Best, What’s Love Got To Do With It?, Private Dancer and River Deep, Mountain High, the musical is an inspiring true story of a woman who dared to dream fiercely, shatter barriers and defy the bounds of age, gender, and race to conquer the world against all odds.
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Olivier Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Katori Hall, with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is choreographed by Anthony van Laast, with set and costume designs by Mark Thompson, musical supervision by Nicholas Skilbeck, lighting by Bruno Poet, sound by Nevin Steinberg, projection design by Jeff Sugg, orchestrations by Ethan Popp, and wigs, hair and makeup design by Campbell Young Associates, casting by Pippa Ailion CDG and Natalie Gallacher CDG.
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