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Commentary: The Tina Turner musical takes on new resonance after the powerhouse performer’s death

A view of "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical" signage outside the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Dec. 16, 2021, in New York City.

LOS ANGELES — Reverence for Tina Turner electrified the Hollywood Pantages Theatre during Wednesday night’s opening of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” which landed in L.A. a month after the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll died at home in Switzerland at the age of 83.

It’s one thing to watch a bio-jukebox musical about a star who has long been gone but quite another to sit in the audience for a show about a legend who passed toward the tail end of her eponymous

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