Elton John blames Trump’s election win for his huge Broadway flop, ‘Tammy Faye’

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interview with Time magazine, which named the singer-songwriter its Icon of the Year, John seemed to blame Trump for the epic failure of his new musical “Tammy Faye.”The composer, whose pricey show closed a flop on Sunday after just 29 regular performances, called “Tammy Faye” a “political piece of work” that pushed the wrong “buttons” in the days after Nov.

5.“It’s a shame for everyone who put so much work in it,” John, 77, told Time. “But that’s what happens when you take a chance.” “It’s a fairly political piece of work,” added John of the show that opened Nov.

14 and closed Dec. 8. “And with that you have to press somebody’s buttons. The buttons we pressed last night with the critics weren’t the right ones.”“Tammy Faye” tells the story of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, the popular 1970s and ‘80s televangelists who shook up religious TV with upbeat prayer, inspirational interviews and variety acts.

One plotline of the musical concerns how the rise of TV preachers helped Ronald Reagan win the presidency.For instance, Reverend Jerry Falwell tells then-Governor Reagan, “Together, we … can return this country to a time of greatness again.”But theater critics had more gripes with the show than just politics.