Tina (The Tina Turner Musical) - Aldwych

Bless her heart. I think it’s fabulous she’s even able to do 2 shows in a day from how demanding vocally and physically the role sounds from reviews!

I feel like you can never beat the original- same as nobody could ever sing as good as Whitney could in the Bodyguard but they are all so amazing still, Adrienne is a force

My friend WhatsApp'd me last night saying that the birthing scene which I described to her is no longer in the show. I'm glad it's out. It was awkward and reminded me of Wicked. Just thought I'd share.

Imagine a jester and his wife arguing over some sausages, then a crocodile appears and the wife fires a new born baby into the audience. Adoption papers are then served by an usher to whoever makes the catch.

That’s the way to do it.

I really enjoyed this though you could feel the audience wanting to sing and dance earlier than they were allowed.

I think a lot of people were surprised by the first half, there were some real gasps at some of the violence and language and they weren't as familiar with the sixties songs.

The second half has less of a struggle but enough incident to keep it going. It's interesting how dramatically her life shifted into a much whiter world in the 1980's and it shows in the audience though you could argue her audience has always been predominantly white in the UK - Riverdeep was a much bigger hit here than the US and she and Ike toured with the Rolling Stones rather than in the soul tours other black artists were involved in here.

Huge energy with the end concert and musically pretty much every Tina song you would expect was there though some of them were a bit thrown away which you could tell disappointed the audience. Don't Turn Around was an odd choice as even though she sang it first, it's hardly considered her song. I suppose the biggest hit they missed was Typical Male which you thought would have fitted in somewhere with this story!

Adrienne was great as was Kobna, the rest of the cast were fine in pretty thankless roles. The weakness is she's not Tina Turner but who is.

Thank goodness they cut the birth Wicked scene. I laughed!

There is a cd with the TINA logo on the front - but beware it is an old compilation of hits and not a cd of the show.

Out of all the shows this week this on bgt this is the only one that got an ovation, so glad I saw this show in April tempted to see it again in two weeks anyone know how much returns are as I'd love to take my sister to see this. plus will Adrien be doing Thursday matinees thank you

Amazing publicity for them wow...agree it’s gonna sell out for months!!!

I'm useless at lip-reading. What does Amanda say to Alesha at about 3.33, as she adjusts herself?