TAMMY FAYE will transfer to Broadway in 2024-2025 Season — Page 12

Agreed.

I am quite curious who they will cast as Jan Crouch - didn't care for the portrayal in London and hope they remove "Run This Show", her duet with Falwell that landed with a thud (the idea behind it would be a great scene, but it doesn't deserve a whole song).

Also curious who they cast as Jessica Hahn and if they have rightfully fleshed out that character, given how notoriously famous she became during the scandal. In London, she had a quick scene, a few lines in a song, then all but disappeared before we knew who she was. There was potential there.

Updated On: 8/19/24 at 11:59 AM

Don’t they typically announce the full company on the day of the first rehearsal?

Having seen this show in London, I can attest to the fact that this show is for anyone that enjoys serious musical theatre with a bit of kitch and a bit of camp. "The Gays" will adore this show as it pays homage to her love of the gay community but also illustrates the price she paid for having a "love everyone" ethos that often contrasted with the views of the religous "right".

The score is first-rate and the book by James Graham raises it to a level of sophistication that we often miss in in today's "its a musical so check your brains at the door" environment.

I look forward to seeing the newly revised version as the Almeida production wasn't perfect, but had a LOT of promise and potential.

I cannot understand why anyone would instantly dismiss this show without giving it a fair shot but that is their loss. It says more about their limited perspective than it does about the show.

Updated On: 8/18/24 at 05:48 PM

It's great that you personally had a chance to see it in London and you consider this musical to be worthy of your time and money. So far, as a person who sees nearly everything on Broadway, I wasn't convinced that it's worth mine. Their socials are non existent. There's no marketing whatsoever, and I still honestly have no clue what this musical is really all about. I have purchased quite a few advance tickets for new upcoming shows but I have yet to discover a single reason to get a ticket for Tammy Faye. It's the shows marketing teams job to convince me to buy a ticket, but nobody is working on it, it seems."

If i may ask, what did you see that didn't convince you that it was worth your time? I barely knew anything about Tammy Faye, but it was a new Elton John score, the book by James Graham and Katie Brayben in the lead role that got me to buy a ticket. It's also the first show in many years that has enticed me back to NYC later this year, purely to see this and Sunset Blvd again. Hopefully you'll see something soon to sway you to give it a go.

I agree with TBFL. Not sure what else one needs to lure them in, given that it has an Elton John score, a leading trio of terrific actors, a book by a man who is arguably the hottest playwright at the moment (or at least he is here in London) and a subject matter that is suited to Broadway like a hand to glove....not to mention a handful of very promising reviews in London.

Hopefully, once their marketing plan kicks in you might think twice.

Updated On: 8/19/24 at 02:38 AM

I wonder if they'll still have the Archbishop of Cantebury as a character. He is so UK specific that i doubt many Americans would know who he is

they could give me a free ticket to this and I wouldn’t accept it. I know at least 10 gay friends who have no interest in it and all think it will be a massive flop.

I know no one that would be interested in this. And a Broadway show needs a broad audience to make money, not just "the gays" as is being assumed in this thread. Elton John helps but people don't go to a show to only hear the score with the price of Broadway shows today. Just my thoughts though, perhaps this will be a massive hit.

Updated On: 8/20/24 at 11:52 AM

Sutton Ross said: "they could give me a free ticket to this and I wouldn’t accept it. I know at least 10 gay friends who have no interest in it and all think it will be a massive flop.

I know no one that would be interested in this. And a Broadway show needs a broad audience to make money, not just "the gays" as is being assumed in this thread. Elton John helps but people don't go to a show to only hear the score with the price of Broadway shows today. Just my thoughts though, perhaps this will be a massive hit."

No one said it was just 'the gays'.

I'm really curious as to why people are not interested in seeing this show. It's about a larger than life personality that many Americans are familiar with, or at least know of, a new score by Elton John and Jake Shears, it's staring 2, 2 time Tony award winners - Christian Borle and Michael Cerveris, 2 time Olivier award winner Katie Brayben giving a star making performance, a very clever, witty book by Olivier Award winner James Graham, who's play Dear England is coming to Broadway, it's opening in the newly refurbished Palace Theatre. If none of that interests you enough to book a ticket.... then you really should just stay home.

Broadway Flash said: "The run time on Broadway Direct says it’s 2 hours and 10 minutes, I wonder if that’ll still be the case when it comes to Broadway?"

I assume that is without interval? The show was 2.45/2.50 in London. 20 mins is a lot to cut out

I really hate the term 'the gays', it's so outdated and borderline insulting in 2024. We aren't all the same, we don't like all the same stuff, and we aren't all aware of the same pop cultural stuff. I can't imagine it being said about any other demographic.

I can't imagine this show attracting many overseas tourists so it will be more reliant on the American market, compared to some other shows

I wouldn't get too twisted over comments about "the gays" given that the phrase is in parentheses which is a hint that it is tongue in cheek. As "a gay" it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Re the appeal of TAMMY FAYE, if you had said to me that foreign tourists would be flocking to a Broadway show that is a send-up of the Mormon religion or a rap musical about Alexander Hamilton I might have thought you were bonkers but would have been wrong.

So maybe, instead of armchair quarterbacking about its appeal, or lack thereof, we wait til it begins previews so we can see what the show actually is and then maybe start making assertions? True, the show had a London production (which I saw) but given that the show went into redevelopement and had a new post-London workshop, the Broadway production will be a revised version of that show and none of us know what it will be like in its new iteration.

If a show with a new Elton John score, featuring a trio of fine actors with two Tony Award winners and a subject matter that promises to be interesting if not both poignant and possibly hilarious doesn't appeal to you, I would have to question your knowledge/taste when it comes to musical theatre. But in the meantime, knocking it down/picking it apart and claiming it has no mass appeal before it has even started rehearsals is asinine and a waste of time.

Updated On: 8/20/24 at 01:30 PM

I wonder if Nederlander has an agreement with the hotel that if they wanted to raise the theatre, they had to agree to advertise and encourage their guests to go see whatever show is in the Palace, and sell tickets at the front desk.

Theatrefan2 said: "I really hate the term 'the gays', it's so outdated and borderline insulting in 2024. We aren't all the same, we don't like all the same stuff, and we aren't all aware of the same pop cultural stuff. I can't imagine it being said about any other demographic.

I can't imagine this show attracting many overseas tourists so it will be more reliant on the American market, compared to some other shows"

"I can't imagine it being said about any other demographic" he says, making the same sweeping statement and generalisations about overseas tourists. They're not all the sam and they don't all like the same stuff.