{"id":118826,"date":"2024-11-20T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/20\/thats-showbiz-good-news-and-bad-news-for-elton-johns-musicals\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:01:20","slug":"thats-showbiz-good-news-and-bad-news-for-elton-johns-musicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/20\/thats-showbiz-good-news-and-bad-news-for-elton-johns-musicals\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s showbiz: Good news and bad news for Elton John’s musicals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elton John onstage with the cast of his musical ‘Tammy Faye’; Bruce Glikas\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When it comes to the two musicals that Elton John <\/strong>currently has onstage \u2014 one on Broadway and one in London’s West End \u2014 there’s good news and bad news.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, the bad news: Tammy Faye<\/em><\/a>, Elton’s musical about the late televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker<\/strong>, opened on Nov. 14\u00a0and is closing on Dec. 8 after what will be just 29 regular performances. Why? According to The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, the show, which cost $25 million, won awards in London but was poorly received once it moved to Broadway. Indeed, The Times<\/em> called it “disjointed” and “strangely bland.”<\/p>\n

The Times<\/em>\u00a0also described the show’s box office receipts as “disastrous” and noted that it was playing to houses that were 37% empty. Elton wrote the music for the show and also co-produced it via Rocket Stage, his production company.<\/p>\n

Now, the good news: Elton’s other musical, an adaptation of the movie The Devil Wears Prada<\/em><\/a>\u00a0starring Vanessa Williams<\/strong>, has been in previews\u00a0on the West End since the end of October and there’s no sign that it’s in trouble \u2014 in fact, November performances are completely sold out. What’s more, the cast will perform for King Charles III<\/strong> and Queen Camilla<\/strong> at the annual Royal Variety Performance<\/a>, taking place Nov. 22 at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall.<\/p>\n

Elton and his husband,\u00a0David Furnish<\/strong>, will take the stage to introduce the cast at the prestigious event, which will feature magicians Penn & Teller<\/strong>,\u00a0James Bay<\/strong> and “Murder on the Dance Floor” singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor<\/strong>, as well as other stars from across the entertainment spectrum.<\/p>\n

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Elton John onstage with the cast of his musical ‘Tammy Faye’; Bruce Glikas\/Getty Images When it comes to the two musicals that Elton John currently has onstage \u2014 one on Broadway and one in London’s West End \u2014 there’s good news and bad news.\u00a0 First, the bad news: Tammy Faye,Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}