John, who wrote the music for the show, which is coming to Broadway this fall, calls the televangelist's life a 'Shakespearean story.'
David Furnish and Elton John attend the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party on March 10, 2024.
“So when we got the chance to write the musical, I jumped at it, because I love interesting people like that who have had great success and then been banished and lost everything, and then come back because of their faith and because of their belief, and turn the tables,” he continued.John had also just seen a run through of the musical for the first time with the Broadway cast. John said he was “very, very happy” with what he heard, and with the show’s new choreography.
“It’s also such a bright, brash, colorful world, it’s larger than life and music was such an integral part of that world. Tammy was a great singer. The importance of hymns and music and faith. That fits musical theater so brilliantly. It was just screaming out,” Furnish said.
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