According to music historian Ed Nimmervoll, Arena "was not comfortable. This was not her. This was not what she wanted to be for the rest of her life. Tina went into seclusion while she decided what to do next, moving to Los Angeles to be a nobody again." She had relocated to LA in 1991, where she took more singing lessons and started song writing. Upon return to Australia, in 1993, she performed in the local December 1992 to February 1993 musical theatre production, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", as the Narrator, at the "State Theatre", Melbourne. In 1992 Arena sang background vocals on the debut album by Australian singer-songwriter Rick Price, titled "Heaven Knows", which was released in July 1992, and she appeared in the 1993 music video by Price for the single "A House Divided".