Friday, November 17, 2023

B'way Update: Tammy Faye Musical, Elton John Composes

Andrew Rannells and Katie Brayben in the
London production of
Tammy Faye.
Credit: Marc Brenner
The Almeida Theater production of the Olivier Award-nominated musical Tammy Faye, will transfer to a Nederlander Theater during the 2024-25 Broadway season. Tammy Faye features music by legendary songwriter Elton John, lyrics by Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, a book by award-winning writer James Graham (Ink, BBC’s Sherwood), and direction by Olivier Award-winner Rupert Goold (King Charles III, Ink). The show opened at London's Almeida Theater in the fall of 2022. Casting, a theater and specific dates will be announced later.

The musical follows the roller-coaster televangelical career of Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker whose broadcasts reached audiences of 24 million at their peak and ended in scandal. Tammy was also the subject of the 2022 film The Eyes of Tammy Faye for which Jessica Chastain won the Best Actress Oscar, and Fall from Grace, a 1990 NBC TV film starring Bernadette Peters and Kevin Spacey. 


(Top) Jessica Chastain in The Eyes of
Tammy Faye
; (Above) Kevin Spacey and
Bernadette Peters in Fall from Grace.


2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Fall 2023
Nov. 19--Hell's Kitchen (Public)
Nov. 20--The Gardens of Anuncia (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Nov. 24--Lone Star (Ruth Stage/Theater Row)
Nov. 30--Spain (Second Stage/Terry Kiser)
Nov.--Sad Boys in Harpy Land; Amusements; School Pictures (solo shows performed in repertory at Playwrights Horizons)

Winter 2023-24
Dec. 5--Manhatta (Public)
Dec. 10--How To Dance in Ohio (Belasco)
Dec. 11--Madwomen of the West (Actors Temple)
Dec. 12--Buena Vista Social Club (Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross)
Dec. 17--The Night of the Iguana (La Femme Theater Prods./Signature Center)
Dec. 18--Appropriate (Second Stage/Hayes)
Jan. 9--Prayer for the French Republic (MTC/Friedman)
Jan. 17--Public Obscenities (previews begin; opening TBA) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)
Jan. 21--Aristocrats (IRT)
Jan. 28--Days of Wine and Roses (Studio 54)
Jan. 30--Sunset Baby (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theater)
Feb. 1--The White Chip (Frankel Theater/MCC Theater)
Feb. 6--The Connector (MCC)
Feb. 8--Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (Vineyard Theater)
Feb. 15--The Ally (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Feb. 21--Teeth (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)
Feb. 26--Pericles (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)
Feb. 29--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/AA)
TBA--Brooklyn Laundry (MTC/City Center Stage I)
TBA--I Love You So Much I Could Die (NYTW)
TBA--The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Signature Center)

Spring 2024
March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 12--My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Lyceum)
March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)
March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)
March 19--Fish (previews begin; opening TBA) (Keen Co./Theater Five) 
March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)
March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)
March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)
March 28--Sally and Tom (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)
April 2--Mary Jane (previews begin; opening TBA) (MTC/Friedman) 
April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)
April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)
April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)
April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)
April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)
April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)
April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)
April 18--Suffs (Music Box)
April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)
April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)
April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)
April 30--Tony Nominations Announced
April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)
May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)
June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)
June--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)
TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)
TBA--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)
TBA--Home (Roundabout/AA)
TBA--Jonah (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Fall 2024
King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)

2024-25
Our Town
Smash
Tammy Faye

Spring 2025
Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)

Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Great Gatsby; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; What a Wonderful World; Working Girl.

2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:
New Plays:

The Cottage
Grey House
I Need That
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Mother Play
Prayer for the French Republic
The Shark Is Broken

New Musicals:
Back to the Future
Days of Wine and Roses
Harmony
The Heart of Rock and Roll
How to Dance in Ohio
Lempicka
The Notebook
Once Upon a One More Time
The Outsiders
Suffs
Water for Elephants

Play Revivals:
Appropriate
Doubt: A Parable
An Enemy of the People
Home
Mary Jane
Purlie Victorious
Uncle Vanya

Musical Revivals:
Cabaret
Gutenberg! The Musical
Here Lies Love
Merrily We Roll Along
Monty Python's Spamalot
The Who's Tommy
The Wiz

Solos/Specialties:
Alex Edelman: Just for Us
Melissa Etheridge: My Window
My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)


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