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Sir Elton John's Tammy Faye musical announces closure

Sir Elton John's musical 'Tammy Faye' has announced it is closing next month, just days after it officially opened on Broadway.

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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

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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

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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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The 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards: a glittering night with the brightest stars of London theatre

Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Mendes, Ian McKellen... the glamour quotient was off the scale

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Elton John's musical about Tammy Faye Bakker to land on Broadway next season

Elton John’s musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is coming to Broadway from London

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Director Michel Franco was issued ‘inaccurate’ warning about Jessica Chastain post-Oscar win

Director says Chastain was ‘the opposite’ of what people predicted

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Olivier awards toast the screen stars storming it on stage

Normal People’s Paul Mescal and Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer took acting prizes at the ceremony while the Almeida’s success shows Rupert Goold has a winning formula

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2023: full list of winners

My Neighbour Totoro, A Streetcar Named Desire and Prima Facie were among the winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Olivier Awards 2023 winners: The complete list in full

Paul Mescal, Jodie Comer, and David Tennant were among this year’s nominees

The Independent UK

Olivier Awards 2023 nominations: The complete list in full

Paul Mescal, Jodie Comer, and David Tennant are among this year’s nominees

The Independent UK

Olivier awards 2023: complete list of nominations

My Neighbour Totoro leads the way with nine nominations at this year’s awards – see who else is in the running

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Our pick of playwright James Graham’s ten best works, as new National Theatre Gareth Southgate play announced

There are few playwrights doing it better than Graham

The Independent UK

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

The Independent UK

George & Tammy review: A crooning, booze-soaked Nashville melodrama

Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain play the country music couple in a show just as big, brash and unsubtle as its protagonists

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: our new Theatre Review (Tammy Faye & Marvellous)

Coming to you from the stage of the Shaftesbury Theatre, currently home to musical & Juliet, we kick off our brand-new theatre show.

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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.

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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

Evening Standard

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

This musical is a carnivalesque takedown of something rotten

The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Guardian - UK

‘I want my work to be invisible’: Hollywood’s prosthetics maestros share their secrets

How makeup masters lay the foundation for award-worthy performances, from transforming Bradley Cooper into Bernstein to helping Brendan Fraser play a very obese man in The Whale

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