★★☆☆☆
She was a larger-than-life figure, yet Tammy Faye Bakker emerges as a cipher with lots of lipstick in this tepid new musical from Elton John. In the 1980s the singing tele-evangelist and her preacher husband, Jim, achieved notoriety in the US when their lucrative Praise The Lord empire imploded amid financial and sexual scandals.
The prospect of hearing a new set of songs by one of our greatest musicians means that tickets are in short supply. Yet for all Katie Brayben’s efforts in the title role, this show – a decade in the making and fitted with serviceable lyrics by the Scissor Sisters star Jake Shears – trundles from one set-piece to another.
Part of the problem lies with the book by that fine
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