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You're not just doing makeup for right here, you're doing makeup for that last row
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So I'm Gio Bryan-Hennings, the hair and makeup supervisor of the Tina Turner Musical on Broadway
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Gio is very serious about makeup. I never thought that I'd be able to work with Tina Turner or work on something like Tina Turner
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So when this came up, I was like, oh, this is it. You're really creating a character on me, with me, in me
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Tina at 17 to Tina at 45 in about 25 minutes. See
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You can do it all. It's a full makeup application. Look at what she used to look like
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I know. And the reason for the wigs, you have to remember, can you imagine traveling trying to find hairstyles Right Or doing it on the bus and then she couldn even go to the bathrooms or hotels Right They had to sleep on the bus Over 200 wigs in the show Yes
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How difficult is that? It's not a show where we can freeze the wigs with hairspray and they stop moving and then
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that's it. They've got to be highlighted and colored. Right. And the bangs have to be cut
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It's a process. Before Tina Turner, no one looked like her, no one sounded like her
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She had this really uncanny natural beauty. She was black and beautiful
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That's what we want to accentuate. So it goes, hit, hit, hit, hit
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Yeah! Oh my God! When you go on stage and that audience sees you for the first time
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I want them to go, you know what I mean? Sometimes as a makeup artist, we can lose the artist part
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And becoming a technician is my worst fear. We're working at the highest level of theater in the world
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There's only one Broadway. That level has to be at 150% every day
