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Elton John’s “Misguided West End Import” Announces Closure Five Days After Opening Night

Elton John's musical Tammy Faye, based on the life of the famous televangelist, has failed to connect with US audiences. The post Elton John’s “Misguided West End Import” Announces Closure Five Days After Opening Night first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Elton John’s $25m Broadway musical announces closure just five days after opening

‘Tammy Faye’ is set to close next month

The Independent UK

Elton John’s musical Tammy Faye to close on Broadway less than a month after opening

Despite Olivier awards success and a sold out run in the West End, the show received unfavourable reviews from US critics and performed poorly at the box office

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Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for Broadway

When Elton John was on tour in America during the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye

The Independent UK

Tammy Faye star shares ‘disappointing’ news about Broadway production

The Tony-nominated actor was set to reprise his role from the West End production of ‘Tammy Faye: A New Musical’

The Independent UK

Andrew Rannells And Katie Brayben To Star In Tammy Faye

Andrew Rannells and Katie Brayben star in Tammy Faye musical on Broadway with Elton John's music at the Palace Theater. Renovated venue opens on Oct. 19.

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Jodie Comer, a gen-Z Elle Woods and a giant swimming pool: The best theatre of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme

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Elton John debuts new musical all about Tammy Faye Bakker ... because of course he did

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Tammy Faye Bakker renaissance shows no signs of slowing down.

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The week in theatre: Tammy Faye; Hamlet; Marvellous – review

Katie Brayben nails the title role in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new West End theatre is launched by an amazing life

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye: A New Musical review – Elton John’s hymn to biblical kitsch

Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons – so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears lyrics are sometimes overwhelmed by glitz

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye review: Camp, cutesy and hard to resist

Rupert Goold’s production at the Almeida about the televangelist, with music by Elton John, is gloriously OTT and packed with great performances

The Independent UK

Tammy Faye at Almeida Theatre review: praise be, it’s a religious riot

This musical is a carnivalesque takedown of something rotten

Evening Standard

‘Fame, greed, redemption – the story is biblical’: behind the scenes of Tammy Faye

With songs by Elton John and Jake Shears and a script by James Graham, this new musical about the televangelist has a lot of talent behind it. The creative team explain how they brought her dramatic life story to the stage

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