{"id":792754,"date":"2019-02-05T15:46:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=790125"},"modified":"2019-02-05T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:46:23","slug":"tina-turner-musical-adrienne-warren-performs-passionate-river-deep-mountain-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/tina-turner-musical-adrienne-warren-performs-passionate-river-deep-mountain-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Turner Musical: Adrienne Warren Performs Passionate \u2018River Deep, Mountain High\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/adrienne-warren-river-deep-mountain-high.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>After a hugely successful run in London\u2019s West End, <em>Tina, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tina-turner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tina-turner\" data-tag=\"tina-turner\">Tina Turner<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/musical\/\" id=\"auto-tag_musical\" data-tag=\"musical\">Musical<\/a><\/em> will make its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\">Broadway<\/a>\u00a0debut this fall. To get fans excited, the producers announced on Tuesday that Adrienne Warren will reprise her critically lauded portrayal of the rock legend. They also released a video of the performer singing the iconic \u201cRiver Deep, Mountain High,\u201d which is also available on the cast album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking on this show has been a life-changing experience for me,\u201d Warren said in a statement released to the press. \u201cTina\u2019s unshakable courage, grace and determination have been our constant inspiration, and I am honored to have had the opportunity to be part of this telling of her story. It has been an amazing year in London, working with the incredible Phyllida Lloyd, Katori Hall and the creative team, in a city that has welcomed me with open arms. Returning home to Broadway, in this role and in this show, is a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Phil Spector, \u201cRiver Deep, Mountain High\u201d \u2014 which was ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127\/ike-and-tina-turner-river-deep-mountain-high-70555\/\">Number 33<\/a> on Rolling Stone\u2019s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list \u2014 was recorded by Turner in 1966 using his trademark Wall of Sound music technique. \u201cI must have sung that 500,000 times,\u201d Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127\/ike-and-tina-turner-river-deep-mountain-high-70555\/\">later recalled<\/a>. \u201cI was drenched with sweat. I had to take my shirt off and stand there in my bra to sing.\u201d The scene is reimagined in the musical as the pivotal moment when she finds her voice as a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing this musical to life on stage and working with this team has meant so much to me,\u201d Turner, who co-produced the musical, said in an earlier statement. \u201cI feel that it is in many ways a culmination of my career. London audiences have been and continue to be extraordinary. Now, the bright lights of Broadway are calling, and I\u2019m very excited to share this beautiful show with New York audiences next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/adrienne-river-deep-mountain-high-from-tina-turner-musical-broadway-790125\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a hugely successful run in London\u2019s West End, Tina, the Tina Turner Musical will make its\u00a0Broadway\u00a0debut this fall. To get fans excited, the producers announced on Tuesday that Adrienne Warren will reprise her critically lauded portrayal of the rock legend. They also released a video of the performer singing the iconic \u201cRiver Deep, Mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 17:32:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}