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NEW YORK (AP) — Elton John's musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is coming to Broadway from London. “Tammy Faye” will land in New York City during the 2024-25 season, producers said Friday. John wrote the music, while Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears penned the lyrics The musical was nominated for four 2023 Olivier Awards, including best musical, but lost the musical crown to “Standing at the Sky’s Edge.” The story is by James Graham with direction by Rupert Goold. Bakker, who died of cancer in 2007 at age 65, has captivated popular culture. Her story was told in the...

Columbia Gorge Repertory Theatre/Jesse Merz, Artistic Director and Lisa Dozier announce that The Gospel According to Tammy Faye, a new two-act musical based on the life of televangelist Tammy Faye Messner, will be presented in three special industry readings in New York City, on Sunday, December 16 at 7PM; Monday, December 17 at 4PM and Tuesday, December 18 at 2PM. Mindy Cooper (choreographer for Dracula, The Musical) directs and choreographs and Seth Farber is the musical director. With a book by Fernando Dovalina and music and lyrics by JT Buck, The Gospel According to Tammy Faye is based on a...

“Our lives are but a single breath, We flower and we fade, Yet all our days are in your hands, So we return in love, What love has made.” -Eye Has Not Seen Marty Haugen Tammy Faye Messner, the former wife of evangelist Jim Bakker, is a brave woman. A Christian preacher who’s known for her singing and flashy lifestyle, Tammy has been a bone of controversy even before she was stricken ill of colon cancer. That’s why she’s the kind of woman we can admire and learn from, if only we take her seriously. On July 19, 2007, I...

By the time Tammy Faye Messner died Friday, the outspoken, fake-eyelash-donning 65-year-old had gone from Christian televangelist to reviled woman to gay icon. How did Messner become a gay icon? With fabulousness and honesty. Tammy Faye's religious background made her an unlikely object for this kind of adulation, but in many ways she had the classic profile of a gay icon. Like many others, she became celebrated for her perseverance. She fell from grace (and lost much of her money) when it was discovered that her husband, Jim Bakker, had cheated on her and swindled their followers out of $158...

In her valiant battle against the pain and weight loss from cancer, Tammy Faye Messner says her family, friends and faith are sustaining her. In a letter on her Web site dated Monday and addressed to "Dear Friends," Messner, 65, says she has been in bed for nearly a year and on some days "I felt so terrible with my back and stomach that I have hardly been able to breath (sic). "I cry out to the Lord knowing that many of you are praying for me. In spite of it all, I get dressed and go out to eat."...

As Tim Graham notes in his report on the passing of Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner, liberal MSMers of the past loved to portray the woman as the "very model of Reagan's Decade of Greed," but Graham made me wonder how the media is reporting her passing, at least during this early morning time as the country wakes to the news. Of course, I have also observed Mr. Graham's reporting on how Tammy Faye was treated in the past. She has been reviled for many years, though recently seems to have gained a sort of kitschy popularity. So, I admit that I...

Although her life was always controversial hardly any American would dare not to say that she kept her faith in Christ through it all. It is that fact that does more to encourage people than all the negative ramifications of all that has gone on in her early days of evangelistic work.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Tammy Faye Messner, who as Tammy Faye Bakker helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion-dollar evangelism empire and then saw it collapse in disgrace, has died. She was 65. Messner, who had battled colon cancer since 1996 that more recently spread to her lungs, died at her home Friday, said her booking agent, Joe Spotts. A family service was held Saturday in a private cemetery, where her ashes were interred, he said. She had frequently spoken about her medical problems, saying she hoped to be an inspiration to others. "Don't let fear rule your life," she said....

RIP Tammy Faye.She looked pretty bad on LKING live the other night.

Tammy Faye Bakker, the disgraced televangelist who is suffering from cancer, has penned a goodbye letter to her fans in which she says doctors have halted her treatment. "The doctors have stopped trying to treat the cancer and so now it's up to God and my faith. And that's enough! But please continue to pray for the pain and sick stomach," Tammy Faye, 65, wrote in a letter on her Web site. "My precious daughter, Tammy Sue, and her wonderful friends are staying with me," Tammy Faye wrote. "They don't want me falling down the stairs. I am down weight...

RALEIGH, N.C. Former televangelist Tammy Faye Messner says cancer has returned to her lungs, marking her third battle with the illness. Messner was first diagnosed with colon cancer nearly a decade ago. Last year she announced that the disease had spread to her lungs, where it has since reappeared. Messner says she's "not worried ... not afraid," adding: "By the third time you have cancer, you begin to think about your mortality." Despite her ailment, Messner is planning to continue traveling the country to give inspirational talks. The former Tammy Faye Bakker divorced Jim Bakker in 1992 while he was...

<p>LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Tammy Faye Messner, the former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker, announced Thursday night she has inoperable lung cancer.</p> <p>Messner, a guest on CNN's "Larry King Live," said she was told of the diagnosis two weeks ago.</p>

INTERVIEW - More Christian Controversy So-called gay icon Tammy Faye goes on record as ‘disagreeing’ with gay community, says Bible is against same-sex marriages By Daniel A. Kusner Lifestyles Editor In her new book, I Will Survive … And You Will, Too! Tammy Faye Messner offers T-shirt-like slogans about overcoming hardships. These cutesy little tidbits are called “Tammy-isms,” which match her baby-voiced approach to life. After a recent phone interview with the former Queen of the Electric Church, one Tammy-ism seemed to ring especially true: “People are like tea bags — if you want to find out what’s inside...