“Tammy Faye’s story needs to be told in a way that shows her loving kindness.'
November 5, 2022, 5:06 AMTammy Faye is the newest musical from singer and songwriter Elton John and Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears about the rise and meteoric plummet of Christian televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker, with shows from Oct. 14 to Dec. 3 at north London’s Almeida Theatre.
“How sad that we as Christians — who are to be the salt of the earth, we who are supposed to be able to love everyone — are afraid so badly of an AIDS patient that we will not go up and put our arm around them and tell them that we care,” Faye beseeched to her 20 million viewers. Tammy Faye is the newest musical from songwriter Elton John and Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears about the rise and meteoric plummet of Christian televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker, with shows from Oct. 14 to Dec. 3 at north London’s Almeida Theatre.
Faye, originally a gospel singer, began her television career alongside her first husband, Jim Bakker, as the first host of “The 700 Club,” on Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network in 1965. From that point, the couple built a moneymaking empire over two decades only to witness the business’s bankruptcy -- in part due to Jim Bakker’s sexual harassment scandals -- by the end of the 1980s.
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