Glorious music fills a frenetically paced ‘Tina: The Tina Turner Musical’

Tina Turner (Zurin Villanueva) and Ike Turner (Garrett Turner) deliver their signature song stylings in a scene from “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical.” (Matthew Murphy)

It’s a tall order to condense the life of a towering diva into a stage musical, and “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” now onstage at the James M. Nederlander Theatre, makes that bold attempt with mixed results.

Casting someone who can step into that iconic fringed dress was possibly the hardest and most important part of the musical, and on that front, “Tina” knocks it out of the park.