Sunday night, Mr. Q and I went to see Tina Turner with our friend, Jules. As the title of this post implies, it was AMAZING!
Tina, 68 years young, sang, danced, and shimmied for over two hours. She had five costume (and shoe) changes, and made quite an entrance on each return to the stage. She opened the concert from a 3′x3′ platform extended about 25 feet in the air - with no railings or harnesses. It slowly receded into the stage, all the while she sang the opening number. There were fireworks and flames shooting out of the stage at some points (half way back on the 2nd level of the AAC, we could feel the heat of the flames!). But wait, there’s more….she ended the concert on a crane platform that did have railings, but was extended about 20 feet over the audience. That thing scared me…she walked back and forth on the part without anything to hold on to, and was quite physical on the whole thing. Oh, and did I mention she did this and the ENTIRE concert 4" - 5" inch heels? (There’s photos from the stage and the concert here - and click on the ‘video’ tab for more treats!)
The music was great, her dancers, backup singers and band were all excellent. And, she looked AWESOME! She’s still got those beautiful legs and used them to dance around the stage all night long. And she did dance; not some lame shuffle to make us think she was dancing. I don’t know how she did it, but she did it well.
The music was a walk down memory lane, including the song from Thunderdome, Golden Eye, a couple of Stones standards, her ‘anthem’, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, along with Simply the Best, Private Dancer and my fav of the night, Proud Mary in which she and her dancers worked those legs (and other body parts) the most. (As Mr. Q said, can you imagine THAT audition to be a TT dancer!?)
I’ll admit when we first talked about going, I was like ‘okay, not something I need to see before I die, but should be fun’. It was TOTALLY worth the price of admission. Thanks, Tina for a great concert!
