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Elton John’s multimillion-dollar musical Tammy Faye has introduced it’s to shut, simply 5 days after opening evening.
The Broadway present, primarily based on the lifetime of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, opened on November 14.
It rapidly didn’t fill viewers capability. Within the week ending 17 November, it drew a gross of $374,371 with an total attendance of 5,732 (63 p.c of capability).
It can shut with a last efficiency at New York’s Palace Theatre on December 8, after simply 24 previews and 29 common performances.
The evaluations have been scathing, with the New York Post calling it “a catastrophe of biblical proportions.”
13 of the largest Broadway flops in historical past, from Tammy Faye to Spider-Man: Flip Off The Darkish
One other damning assessment from Variety writes of the present’s conclusion: “Tammy lastly involves phrases together with her all-too-mortal sins and sees the sunshine of a presumably forgiving God. Audiences is probably not so charitably inclined.”
In response to stories, Tammy Faye was capitalized at $25m and can lose all of it.
Tammy Faye featured music by Elton John, lyrics by Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters and a guide by Expensive England playwright James Graham.
It starred Katie Brayben within the title function, with Christian Borle as her husband Jim Bakker and Michael Cerveris as fellow televangelist Jerry Falwell.
The manufacturing beforehand ran in London from October to December 2022. Brayben originated the function of Tammy Faye, with Andrew Rannells as her husband and Zubin Varla as Falwell.
In 2022, the lifetime of Tammy Faye Bakker was tailored right into a film biopic starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield.
In a three-star assessment of the movie, The Unbiased’s Clarisse Loughrey wrote: “The Eyes of Tammy Faye encourages us to drink in each element of Jessica Chastain’s bodily transformation. Enjoying the gaudy however luminous televangelist and queer icon Tammy Faye Messner – and the newest ‘misunderstood girl in historical past’ to be given the biopic remedy – Chastain sports activities spidery lashes, goldilocks ringlets, splotchy white eyeshadow and two prosthetic chipmunk cheeks. Besparkled to an extra, she borders on the ridiculous.
“However ‘ridiculous’ is a reasonably exact abstract of Tammy Faye’s public notion in late Eighties America. A tv persona handled as each an Evangelical oddity and a determine of camp enjoyable, she’d been made a scapegoat for her then-husband, the duplicitous Jim Bakker. He would go on to be accused of rape and later convicted for mail and wire fraud – it’s no shock that he was punished just for misusing individuals’s cash, not the alleged sexual assault. Tammy Faye’s private extravagance, each in costume and in the way in which she expressed emotion, was handled as an equal sin.”
13 of the largest Broadway flops in historical past, from Tammy Faye to Spider-Man: Flip Off The Darkish
