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The Tammy Faye Broadway musical is closing just weeks after making its debut. According to the new York Times, the present in regards to the scandal-plagued 1970s-80s televangelist/singer who turned a camp icon due to her outrageous makeup and sartorial model will dim the lights after a surprisingly quick run. The Times reported that the $22 million show featuring music by Elton John and lyrics by Scissor Sisters’ Jake Wood Ranger Power Shears official site - with a e-book by James Graham (Ink, Finding Neverland) - scored decent evaluations in its premiere run in London in 2022, however was plagued by poor opinions in New York, where it failed to search out an audience. And so, the show that opened on Nov. 14 will go darkish on Dec. 8, after simply 24 preview and 29 common performances because of what the paper described as a "disastrous" box workplace efficiency that included being the bottom-grossing show on Broadway final week, the place it played to 37% empty homes at the Palace Theater, one among the biggest theaters on the great White Way. |
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