AT PALACE THEATRE, NEW YORK
Tammy Faye: Broadway
Music by Elton John, Lyrics by Jake Shears, Book by James Graham, Directed by Rupert Goold
Event details
From Oct 2024
Following its sold-out run at the Almeida in 2022, Tammy Faye transfers to Broadway this October.
A “divinely delirious glitz-bomb of a musical” (Financial Times), Tammy Faye features music by legendary songwriter Elton John, lyrics by Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, a book by Olivier Award-winning writer James Graham (Dear England, Ink), choreography by Lynne Page (Ink, Standing at the Sky’s Edge), and direction by Olivier Award-winner Rupert Goold (Patriots, Dear England).
The story of a travelling preacher’s wife who beamed into homes with a message of hope… and stole the country’s heart.
It’s the 1970s, and for the very first time, satellites are bringing cable television into American homes. As families gather in their living rooms, young preacher Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye hit the airwaves to build a nationwide congregation and put the fun back in faith.
But while Tammy dazzles on screen, rivals plot behind the scenes, jealous of her popularity and threatened by her determination to lead with love.
Wrapped in a joyful and deliriously fun score that could only come from Elton John, Tammy Faye shines a sparkling light on the generous, loving, often lonely soul behind the illustrious lashes. Reprising her celebrated performance, the divine cast will be led by Olivier Award winner Katie Brayben as Tammy Faye and she will be joined by Tony Award winner Christian Borle as Jim Bakker.
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Production Photos
2022 Almeida Production | Photos by Marc Brenner
Cast & Creatives
Further casting to be announced.
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Cast
Christian Borle
Katie Brayben
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Creatives
Elton John
Music
Jake Shears
Lyrics
James GrahamJames Graham
Book
James Graham
For the Almeida: Tammy Faye (also Broadway, nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Musical); Ink (also West End/ Broadway, nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play and a Tony Award for Best Play).
Theatre includes: Best of Enemies (Young Vic); Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Labour Of Love (West End, Olivier Award for Best New Comedy); This House (National Theatre/ Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ UK tour); Monster Raving Loony (Theatre Royal Plymouth/ Soho Theatre); Privacy (Donmar Warehouse/ Public Theater, New York); The Vote (Donmar Warehouse/ More4); The Angry Brigade (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Finding Neverland (American Rep Theater/ Broadway); The Whisky Taster (Bush Theatre); Bassett (National Theatre/ Bristol Old Vic); The Man; Sons of York; Little Madam; Eden’s Empire; Albert’s Boy (Finborough Theatre); A History of Failing Things (Theatr Clywd); Tory Boyz (Soho Theatre); Coal Not Dole; The Tour Guide (Edinburgh Fringe).
Film includes: X + Y (selected for the Toronto International Film Festival 2014).
Television includes: Sherwood; Quiz; The Crown; Brexit: The Uncivil War; Coalition; Prisoners’ Wives; Caught In A Trap.
Radio includes: Where Shall I Go? What Shall I Do?; Diving the Union; The Grudge; How You Feelin’ Alf?; Albert’s Boy.
Rupert GooldRupert Goold
Director
Rupert Goold
Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, founding Artistic Director of Headlong (2005 to 2013), Associate Director at the RSC and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres (2002 to 2005).
For the Almeida: Women, Beware the Devil; Tammy Faye; Patriots (also West End); Spring Awakening; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Richard III; Medea; The Merchant of Venice; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; American Psycho (also Broadway); Ink; King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway).
Theatre includes: Dear England (National Theatre/ West End); The 47th (The Old Vic); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong/ National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON (Headlong/ West End/ Broadway); Made in Dagenham; Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; No Man’s Land (West End); King Lear (Headlong/ Liverpool Everyman/ Young Vic); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong/ West End); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ Broadway).
Film includes: Judy; True Story.
Television includes: Macbeth; King Charles III; Richard II.
Opera includes: Turandot (ENO); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera).
Rupert has received Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director twice and won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth. Rupert received a CBE in 2017 New Year’s Honours for services to drama.
Lynne Page
Choreographer
Bunny Christie
Scenic Designer
Katrina Lindsay
Costume Designer
Neil Austin
Lighting Designer
Finn Ross
Video Designer
Nick Lidster
Sound Designer
Mark Dickman
Orchestrations
Tom Deering
Musical Supervisor, Arrangements, Additional Music & Orchestrations
