Katie Brayben as Tammy Faye Bakker in the new musical Tammy Faye, opening at the Palace Theater in New York, NY on November 14, 2024.

Fall Arts Guide: The Tammy Faye Bakker musical with music by Elton John opens soon. We talk to star Katie Brayben and lyricist Jake Shears.

Tammy Faye Bakker's son has said that he was forced to relive his trauma by the new Elton John Broadway musical about her life.. Jay Bakker, 48, told PEOPLE the musical about the infamous 1980s ...

Elton John and Jake Shears’ Broadway musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker makes an unconvincing case for her iconic status. Senior Editor and Writer The central scene in the Broadway ...

'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 ...

Tammy Faye Bakker is dead, too, a truth made clear in the first scene of an internally conflicted new musical that carries her name, even though the felonious hubby who betrayed her with Jessica ...

“Tammy Faye,” the big-budgeted Broadway musical about the life and times of ’80s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, is already set to close just days after officially opening on Nov. 14.. Reps ...

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

After seeing Tammy Faye, the biographical musical about the late American evangelist Tammy Faye Messner, her son, Jay Bakker, hopped on a video call with Elton John, who wrote the music for it ...

So fully separating Tammy Faye from Jim is a bit of post-facto quarterbacking, frankly. But this is a musical, after all, and it’s certainly true that the grim, sexist men in suits were very ...

This week, Elton John's "Tammy Faye" musical closed on Broadway after only 24 previews and 29 regular performances. Although the show, about the rise and fall of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker ...