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Nov 15, 2012 congratulations to kathie lee gifford for her long journey to bring the story of aimee semple mcpherson to life on the broadway stageher new musical scandalous opens tonight at the neil simon. The musical has had productions in 2005 at the white plains, new york performing arts center, at the signature theatre in 2007, in 2011 at the 5th avenue. The life and trials of aimee semple mcpherson tickets to the 2020 scandalous. The iconic performer and talk show host spent a good part of the last dozen years inching toward bringing scandalous. The musical has had productions in 2005 at the white plains, new york performing arts center, at the signature theatre in 2007, in 2011 at the 5th avenue theatre in seattle and in 2012 on broadway.
Aimee semple mcpherson, scandalous evangelist, gets star. May 18, 2017 aimee semple mcpherson 18901944 was a flamboyant, controversial, immensely popular preacher who the international church of the foursquare gospela pentecostal denomination which still exists today with 1,600 churches and a quarter of a million members and adherents in the u. Its also the first broadway show with a book and lyrics written by today show cohost kathie lee gifford. The life and trials of aimee semple mcpherson might sound like a female leap of faith, but its actually chaplin the musical with girls clothes both shows. Twotime tony nominee carolee carmello stars in the title role of the new musical scandalous.
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