TAMMY FAYE Previews — Page 8

PipingHotPiccolo said: "two totally separate arguments happening here. one is about whether theres an audience for a Tammy Faye musical by Elton John. I think there might be, but it looks like not so much based on sales.

that has little to do with the quality of the Tammy Faye musical by Elton John."

The natural core audience would be fans of Tammy Faye. Whether the show can widen its audience by word of mouth or marketing to the general public to sustain a run through Tony Awards is another question.

The bullying pile-on really is getting nasty now. Obviously certain posters have nothing to say about the actual show.



Why are you lot even on here if you hate it so much? It's profoundly weird to spend all day every day posting about a show you don't even like.



I saw the show on the third preview and I thought it was great. Not perfect, not as good as in London, but still a thoroughly enjoyable show. They fixed the problem with the bows which was the major issue that the show had in London. I'd never heard of either of the actors who played Jim before but I thought both did a credible job with a not all that interesting character who is overshadowed by Tammy. I'd watch Katie recite a shopping list. Maybe Americans receive that differently. My hotel telly was showing televangelist content. I was surprised. I didn't know that still exists. It's a show told from the British perspective to be sure. I loved how camp it was and the comedy maybe was more British style of humour but I found it really funny and moving. I'm looking forward to seeing it again when it's more bedded in.



You can't keep dragging the conversation back to an actor, post gifs of that actor on every page, then complain and say the actor is irrelevent to the conversation. Of course he's relevent. Anything to do with the show is relevent and that includes the casting decisions. I don't follow American theatre much but I've never seen an actor pull a red carpet stunt that like Tonys video, of course ppl will react like sharks smelling blood in the water to an actor starting drama in public. Theatre fans LOVE drama don't we? I don't know why he dropped out but there are enough accounts online (including closed Facebook groups where you can see real names of posters) from different ppl saying that he was difficult to work with. Afaik no one has come forward to say they worked on the show and it's not true. Just fans getting in their feelings.

lilpunkin said: "Meh one show that’s not selling well after a couple of previews, vs being blacklisted and likely never working in the UK again.


Out of curiosity I looked elsewhere online and the response on Twitter and Instagram is near universally positive, response on Reddit is more mixed but leaning towards positive, and on the NY sub-forum of TheatreBoard, universally positive."

This is just not true, or just a bizarrely biased interpretation!!!

BETTY22 said: "This is heartbreaking......Elton is also lead producer.....which mean him and his husband are running this show"

What is heartbreaking?

Lestat was amazing lol

I'm looking forward to Tammy Faye. I saw and loved it in London. I don't mind that Rannells is not in it, he was ok, but the show belongs to Tammy and Jerry Falwell. Although I haven't seen the Broadway production yet, I do understand that people don't have to like shows -- despite being a fan of Jamie Lloyd, I think Sunset has been wildly overrated -- but I don't understand all the negativity about Tammy Faye.

bway1430 said: "Eddie3 said: "I'm looking forward to Tammy Faye. I saw and loved it in London. I don't mind that Rannells is not in it, he was ok, but the show belongs to Tammy and Jerry Falwell. Although I haven't seen the Broadway production yet, I do understand that people don't have to like shows -- despite being a fan of Jamie Lloyd,I think Sunset has been wildly overrated -- but I don't understand all the negativity about Tammy Faye.

You should know that a lot of that negativity was built in well before Tammy Faye even started previews....from the moment it was announced they booked The Palace to Andrew Rannells departure,the thread became a bitchfest of negativity and more boring than the show itself ever could ever be.

Like you, I enjoyed it in London - not a perfect show, but one with a lot of promise and a rather good score. I look forward to your thoughts and how you think it compares from the Almeida run.



And I assume from your post that you haven't seen what is onstage at The Palace right now? I did not see it at the Almeida, but I was highly anticipating seeing it here. It was an abomination. What plays in a 300 seat regional UK house will not necessarily translate well to a 1600 seat Broadway house -- ESPECIALLY if the show in question is trying to skewer a certain subset of Americans (radical "Christian" evangelicals) -- that actual Americans know more than enough of already and don't need the Brits to "mansplain" them to us.

"Bitchfest" over. Let us know if you ever actually see the show on Broadway.