1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:00,640 Speaker 1: Well. 2 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 2: It opened in May to rave reviews and standing ovations 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 2: and is currently playing at Theater Royal in Sydney. Tina 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 2: the Tina Turner Musical is coming to Crown Theater in 5 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 2: February February twenty seven to March twenty four to Pigsact. 6 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 2: Tickets are through Ticketmaster and the star of the show 7 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 2: is with us this morning, ruve Iguena is Tina. 8 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 3: Good morning, Welcome morning, Lisa, Good morning Clzy. 9 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 4: Thanks for having me well. 10 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 2: And the reason that you're here now, you know, this 11 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 2: far out from the show, is because you were in 12 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 2: town over the weekend for telethon. 13 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 3: Yes, I performed at Teallethon. It was my first telethon 14 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 3: and it was honestly amazing. Turn it on, don't oh 15 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 3: my goodness, broke the record because you were here. 16 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, honor. 17 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 3: It was so inspiring to see the just the generosity 18 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 3: and the kindness of humankind and the performances, the charisma, 19 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: the jokes, the dancing, the kids. 20 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 4: It was just it was incredible. 21 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 5: And seventy seven point five million dollar not only we 22 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 5: beat last year's record, but spashally by six million bugs. 23 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:08,639 Speaker 3: It's incredible that much money. I've never seen that before. 24 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 3: It's honestly amazing. 25 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 4: Very cool. 26 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 2: Well, speaking of honestly amazing, you are Tina Turner in 27 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 2: Tina The Tina Turner Musical. Now, what was the audition 28 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 2: process like for that? How does that sort of come about? 29 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: It was long and grueling. 30 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, first you get that, you know, the flyer Tina 31 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 3: the Tina Tena Musical auditions, and you rock up and 32 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,479 Speaker 3: you sing your one song and then you start your 33 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 3: callbacks and that's when they really turn up the heat 34 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 3: those I remember the first group dance call we had 35 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 3: was Proud Mary and I wanted to vomit, and I 36 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 3: remember we danced it over and over again and all 37 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: of a lot of us were on all fours crouched over. 38 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 3: One of my girlfriends was like, don't sit down, don't 39 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 3: sit down, you won't be able to get back up. 40 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 3: Stay keep pacing. Like it was just a very very 41 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 3: very tough, tough one. 42 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: So that's the full on bending over coming up. 43 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 4: It's a whole. 44 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's fierce, and it was just like go, go, go, 45 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,679 Speaker 3: don't hold back, you know, just give it everything you've 46 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 3: got and the charisma and you're in front of a panel, 47 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 3: so you're trying to impress and show everything you've got. 48 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 3: But it was just it was very very challenging audition, 49 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 3: and not only that, but then of course the singing. 50 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 3: You know, I had to sit with that MD and 51 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 3: he the music director, and he really pushed me and said, look, 52 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 3: if you're going to sing this, you have to be fearless. 53 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 3: You can't be scared, you can't hold back, and you 54 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 3: can't second guess yourself when you sing these songs. So 55 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 3: push yourself and it's going to be hard. But the 56 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 3: excitement and the thrill is on the other side of 57 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 3: pushing through the adversity of singing some of these songs. 58 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 3: So it was hard. 59 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: What's that call like when you find out you're it? 60 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 4: You got it? It's yours? 61 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 3: I cried, I was, I was in the supermarket, I 62 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 3: was and GOLs and I got a call from the 63 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 3: producer and I just burst into tears. I couldn't believe it, 64 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 3: and I just kind of had to walk around my suburb, 65 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 3: just do laps around myself. 66 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 4: Yeah. 67 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, just trying to trying to understand how much my 68 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 3: life is about to change. And I still I don't 69 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 3: even think I really understood now, looking back had the 70 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 3: journey I've been on. It's just been incredible, not only 71 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 3: in a career but self development and who I am 72 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 3: as a person and a performer and what Tina means 73 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 3: to me. 74 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 4: It's transformative. 75 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: You want to tell other shopers when you're there, you sort. 76 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 2: Of well, yeah, putting some oranges in a bag or something, 77 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 2: and you get this call and. 78 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: You start crying. You're say, I'm Tina Turner. 79 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 3: A man in the store next to me he overheard 80 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 3: the conversation and he was kind of, oh, congratulations. 81 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 5: All of a sudden, there's one hundred oranges in the bank. 82 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 5: So you've got an MD, you got a music thorg. 83 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 5: You're telling you to push and go all full on. 84 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 5: But how do you do that with twenty three songs 85 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 5: every night and not burn out early and lose that voice? 86 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really good question. 87 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 3: It boils down to technique and and I think a 88 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 3: lot of people, you know, they see talent in the 89 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 3: in the music industry, and these artists and icons they 90 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 3: are gifted and they're talented, but they're also craftsman at 91 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 3: their at their gift, you know, they work at it 92 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 3: and it's a skill and it's a technique to be 93 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 3: able to sing in a certain way every night and 94 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 3: to do it safely, and to build up your stamina. 95 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 4: That's another big thing. Stamina. You know. 96 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 3: We rehearse, we rehearse, rehearse and sing, I sing, I sing, 97 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 3: and I practice and practice to the point where your 98 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,119 Speaker 3: voice does get stronger, you know, and it does build 99 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 3: up this resilience to be able to, you know, sing 100 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 3: some of these rock. 101 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 4: Music and really go for it. 102 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 3: But there is there is a singing teacher in the background, 103 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 3: and there's a lot of lip trills and warming up 104 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 3: and cooling down, and a lot of vocal rest, a 105 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 3: lot of vocal a lot of vocal rest. Oh yeah, 106 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 3: every week. I don't speak for an entire day every week. 107 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: So do you just stay home? 108 00:04:58,080 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm schedule. 109 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 2: It's I like, there are twenty three Tina Turner songs, 110 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 2: no wonder you need at least one shutdown day. Do 111 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 2: you have a favorite to perform? 112 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 4: Oh? 113 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 3: I love them all for different reasons. I will say Riverdeep, 114 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 3: Mountain High. It's my favorite to perform because it reminds 115 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 3: me of when I was younger, when I was fifteen 116 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 3: and I sang it in high school. It was my 117 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 3: first time performing in a musical at fifteen, and I 118 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 3: sang riverdep MOUNTA High for my high school and it 119 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 3: kind of became this like before viral was a thing 120 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 3: viral in the school that oh, you have to go 121 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 3: see the school play because Ruver sings riverdep Mount High 122 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 3: and it's amazing. And it sparked something in me and 123 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 3: performing and the trajectory of my life and the performing 124 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 3: arts changed from that moment. So now thirty at thirty, 125 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 3: fifteen years later, when I sing that, I'm taken back 126 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 3: to that high school moment, but now I'm Tina Tanner. 127 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah that if I could have. 128 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 2: Told my fifteen old selfish, she's gonna never believe me. 129 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 3: So it just feels like a journey. I'm very very grateful. 130 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, every circle, absolutely everyone knows Tina, but she goes 131 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 5: right across the gamut. So even rock artists love Tina. 132 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 5: So I love the story that Brian Johnson from a 133 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 5: CDC when he auditioned for Akadaca dig Nutbush. I think 134 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 5: that's pretty good to replace Bond Scott. 135 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: I think that's pretty cool. 136 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 3: That is so cool, such an icon, her music, her style, 137 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 3: her dance. 138 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 4: It's just it's woven into. 139 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 3: The fabric of our culture, music, what we love, the 140 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 3: sounds we hear, even the idea of women performing and 141 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 3: not just singing standing there and singing, but creating a show. 142 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 3: The Beyonces and the Madonnas, they they all took from 143 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 3: what Tina did with those ikets back back in the day. 144 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 3: They were the first to get up there and have 145 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 3: a choreographed show that was not really happening back then. 146 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 4: So she really is a piney in so many ways. 147 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 2: Absolutely, you did a few weeks ago, you did the 148 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 2: NRL Grand Final in the Tina role, because were you 149 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 2: aware of that connection of simply the best in the 150 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 2: NRL and Tina's I mean, she brought that thing back to. 151 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 6: Life, Yeah, that whole Yeah, yeah. 152 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: Incredible life and she really did. 153 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty incredible. 154 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 3: And when I got the news that I was going 155 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 3: to be performing there with the cast, and I did 156 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 3: a lot more research on it. It's quite massive shoes 157 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 3: to fill, you know, it's a hard audience to please, 158 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 3: and it's a huge it's a huge. 159 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: Day on any day. 160 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 6: Yeah, so the nerves were up, but I thought, well, 161 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 6: you know what, I'm doing this in honor of an 162 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 6: icon and a legend, and you know, as a black 163 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 6: woman and an Aussie, it just feels like the highest 164 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 6: honor to get to do that and to showcase something 165 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 6: that we don't get to see all the time in Australia. 166 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 3: But we have a lot of it. We've got so 167 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 3: much talent here. Sometimes we don't need to outside. We 168 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 3: can look in our backyards and showcase the incredible talent 169 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 3: that is Australian artists and performers. 170 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 5: You mentioned nerves. 171 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: I mean, how do you do that as a vocalist. 172 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 5: You can understand some people performing in the life, but 173 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 5: as a vocalist, how do you control on it and 174 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 5: turn it into positive for yourself when you're out there 175 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 5: on the pitch before lead Grand Final? 176 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 4: Oh it's tough. 177 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 3: My mouth was so dry I had to mouth but 178 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 3: like a desert in my mouth. But you know what 179 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 3: you have to Yeah, you do have to channel it 180 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 3: into your performance. 181 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 4: The nerves. 182 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 3: For me, it means I care, Yeah, yeah, like I'm 183 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 3: passionate and I care and I want to do a 184 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 3: good job. So I guess it's about harnessing that feeling 185 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 3: and using it in your performance, channel it instead of 186 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 3: using it to manifest fear, use it to manifest bravery 187 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 3: and courage to just push and play on stage. You know, 188 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 3: kick your leg there, if you want to run over 189 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 3: in that corner, try a different belt here, do a scream, 190 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 3: shout out something, go for it, try it all, because 191 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 3: that's the essence of being a performer and a star 192 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 3: is to communicate energy to the people there with you. 193 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 3: So I hope that I managed to channel those nerves 194 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 3: into a really positive, good performance. I mean, I've watched 195 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 3: it back and we'll having fun. Yeah. 196 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 2: Sounds like exactly the advice Teina would have given anyway. 197 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,599 Speaker 2: So you are playing the Queen, It's going to be amazing. 198 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 2: And as I said, it's at Crown Theater from February 199 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 2: to twenty seventh to March to twenty fourth. Tickets through 200 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 2: ticket Master. Get onto those because they will go quick. 201 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 2: So lovely to meet you, Thank you for coming in, thank. 202 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 4: You for having me. Lovely to meet you.