For Elton John and his husband David Furnish, televangelist Tammy Faye has long been a figure of fascination. The two were drawn to her not only for her over-the-top style, including her bold eye ...

Elton John’s Broadway musical about the late Tammy Faye Messner, who was known as “the first lady of televangelism” when she was Tammy Faye Bakker in the 1970s and ’80s, is packing it up ...

Unfortunately for Sir Elton, the godawful musical about flamboyant 1980s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is a lot more of a “Lestat” than an “Aida.” ...

Elton John’s ‘Tammy Faye’ Musical Will Close on Broadway After Less Than One Month The musical, co-created with Jake Shears, will close on Dec. 8 after 24 previews and 29 regular performances ...

Elton John is sharing what inspired him to make a Broadway musical about one of America's most famous televangelists Tammy Faye Bakker, who died in 2007. In an interview with "Good Morning America ...

After Elton John’s musical “Tammy Faye” transferred to Broadway in November, it was not met with a lot of interest from American theatergoers.

This misguided West End import, directed by Rupert Goold with songs by Elton John, starts its story of the teary televangelist with a sense of wicked outrageousness. A white-gowned Tammy (Katie ...

'Tammy Faye,' Elton John and Jake Shears' musical about the life of the late American evangelist Tammy Faye Messner, is days away from its Broadway debut — and PEOPLE has a first listen at one ...

Elton John performs on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Sept. 23, 2022, left, and Tammy Faye Bakker appears during the taping of an infomercial in 1987.

Writing songs with Elton John Even as a kid growing up in the Pacific Northwest in the ‘80s, Shears found himself drawn to Tammy Faye and her story. Despite the PTL empire imploding during that ...

For Elton John and his husband David Furnish, televangelist Tammy Faye has long been a figure of fascination. The two were drawn to her not only for her over-the-top style, including her bold eye ...

The new Broadway musical “Tammy Faye” touches on all of these points of view but lands on none with any sense of confidence, consistency or purpose. It’s as messy as Tammy’s mascara.