It’s only November, and Broadway has posted its first closing notice. “Tammy Faye,” the new $25 million Elton John musical about Tammy Faye Bakker, will close on Dec. 8, at which point it will have ...

NEW YORK — Cable TV in the early 1980s had no more hypnotic oddity than “The PTL Club,” otherwise known as “The Jim and Tammy Show,” wherein an oily host and his mascara-loving spouse peddled their ...

If you remember Tammy Faye Bakker at all from the peak of her ’80s televangelical fame, you’ll most likely remember the scandals, the mascara, the tarantula-leg eyelashes, the big, big hair, the ...

BRUCE R. MILLER Jul 31, 2021 Jul 31, 2021 Updated May 2, 2022 There’s a great musical – maybe an opera – lurking in the story of evangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker. Highly theatrical and colorful, ...

Cable TV in the early 1980s had no more hypnotic oddity than “The PTL Club,” otherwise known as the Jim and Tammy Show, wherein an oily host and his mascara-loving spouse peddled their prosperity ...

It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make “Tammy Faye” divinely suited for musical theater. It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy hoot, a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While those familiar with the life and times of televangelist-turned-LGBTQ+ icon Tammy Faye Bakker might automatically link her to her ...