Elton John has damaged his silence in regards to the closing of his multimillion-dollar musical Tammy Faye simply days after it opened on Broadway.

The EGOT winner, 77, opened up in regards to the speedy cancellation of the Broadway musical, primarily based on the lifetime of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, following its opening on November 14. In an interview with Time journal, which named John its “Icon of the 12 months,” the composer mentioned it’s merely par for the course within the title of showbiz.

“It’s a disgrace for everybody who put a lot work in it,” he mentioned. “However that’s what occurs once you take an opportunity.”

John, who was joined by his husband David Furnish for an interview on the night after opening night time, advised that the failure had one thing to do with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump securing a second time period within the White Home days earlier than the musical opened.

“It’s a reasonably political piece of labor,” the British singer mentioned. “And with that it’s important to press anyone’s buttons. The buttons we pressed final night time with the critics weren’t the suitable ones.”

Within the weekend after Tammy Faye’s opening, the musical drew a gross of $374,371 with an general attendance of 5,732 at 63 p.c of capability. It closed with a remaining efficiency at New York’s Palace Theatre on December 8, after simply 24 previews and 29 common performances.

In response to Time, Tammy Faye value a whopping $22 million to supply.

The evaluations have been instantly scathing, with the New York Submit calling it “a catastrophe of biblical proportions.”

In the meantime, Selection wrote: “Tammy lastly involves phrases along with her all-too-mortal sins and sees the sunshine of a presumably forgiving God. Audiences will not be so charitably inclined.”

The present featured music by John, lyrics by Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters, and a ebook by Expensive England playwright James Graham. It starred Katie Brayben within the title position, with Christian Borle as her husband Jim Bakker and Michael Cerveris as fellow televangelist Jerry Falwell.

The manufacturing beforehand ran in London from October to December 2022. Brayben originated the position of Tammy Faye, with Andrew Rannells as her husband and Zubin Varla as Falwell.

Tammy Faye isn’t the one Broadway musical that John has not too long ago performed a task in producing. The “Rocket Man” singer wrote the rating for the brand new West Finish musical The Satan Wears Prada, starring Vanessa Williams.

At a gala efficiency of The Satan Wears Prada on December 1 — staged to lift funds for the Elton John Aids Basis — John spoke about his ongoing well being points after revealing that he had misplaced imaginative and prescient in his proper eye.

“I haven’t been in a position to come to most of the previews as a result of, as you recognize, I’ve misplaced my eyesight. So it’s arduous for me to see it. However I like to listen to it and boy it sounded good tonight,” he mentioned whereas onstage.

In September, the “Yellow Brick Highway” singer shared he was slowly therapeutic from a “extreme eye an infection” that had left his imaginative and prescient impaired. He later defined in an interview with Good Morning America that he and his docs are “taking an initiative” to deal with his eye issues, however maintained that “it’s by no means lucky for something like this to occur.”