"Despite its larger-than-life subject matter, the show is surprisingly conventional...the cast deliver it all with the delirious vim that the subject matter deserves."
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" 'Tammy Faye' isn’t a hell of a show in the wrong sense, but it’s surprisingly purgatorial at points, struggling to find a strong dramatic pulse, the bland leading the bland so far as too many songs are concerned."
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"This is a vibrant, multi-coloured telling, of an astonishing, mascara-coated life, riding the wave of television...It's not a show of great depth, but it has enormous panache and verve as it whisks through its strangely significant tale. I really enjoyed it."
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"This is a carnivalesque takedown of something rotten... I love this show."
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"...this show trundles from one set-piece to another. Part of the problem lies with the book by that fine playwright James Graham, which flits here and there, packing in so many characters that Tammy Faye and Jim become bystanders in their own story."
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"For all its craft, its thematic relevance as the cynical, easy answers of 20th century televangelists are recycled by 21st century politicians to sell their views over the social media, a mechanism even more powerful than television, the subject matter feels niche."
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"This is, without doubt, a musical with charisma, just like 'Tammy Faye' herself. In its biggest moments – and there are several – it reaches a delirious kind of excellence."
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"It’s thrilling to see the birth of a new original musical of this quality: it restores your faith in the power, and in the sheer entertaining fun, of the medium. Praise 'Tammy Faye'!"
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