Elton John turns televangelist into Broadway song

When Elton John was on tour in America in the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye — televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. “She fascinated the hell out of me,” John tells The Associated Press. “I love people who come back from the dead, more or less. It’s an amazing story, ... Shakespearean in a way.” John has put this heroine’s story to song with the stage musical “Tammy Faye” and the latest iteration lands on Broadway this month, championing what he calls “a gladiator on her own terms.”

— Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press