I particularly enjoyed the number performed by Tammy Faye and a chorus of drag queens at a Tammy Faye look-alike contest.

It would be interesting to see a fully-realized production of this show, as (being part of a Fringe Festival), it was very low-tech. No scenery except some stage boxes and folding chairs, some rudimentary lighting and thrift-shop costumes. Some of the casting could have been better, as a few of the actors were clearly struggling with their lines.

But overall, it was a fun romp through the life and mind of a cultural icon.

Here's the backstory, from the press release sent me by the producers:

The writers, JT Buck, who is working on his master‚s in directing at the University of  Houston Ho and Fernando Dovalina, who spent most of his newspaper career as an editor at the Houston Chronicle, met while studying musical collaboration under Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow at the University of Houston.
 
Buck came up with the idea while sitting at a bar and watching Bakker, now remarried and known as Tammy Faye Messner, being interviewed on the Larry King Show. They arranged for a meeting with Messner in Charlotte, N.C., and she granted them a long and in-depth interview.
 
Messner told the writers that she is at peace today because she has rediscovered the innocence that she first found in a church service when she was a 10-year-old. Messner also talked freely about her cancer, and she discussed her most-repeated religious message, that all humans are God‚s children--that, as she put it, "God doesn‚t make junk."
 
Those key pieces of information provided the heart of "The Gospel." Three actors play three Tammy Fayes, one the child, another the TV preacher who was married to PTL founder Jim Bakker, and the third playing today's at-peace Tammy Faye. At times the three are on stage at the same time exploring their relationship across the years.
 
"You can never get enough of Tammy Faye, so three of them is not too much, and if you count the contestants in the scene at a gay bar in which Tammy is judging a Tammy Faye look-alike contest among six drag queens, then you get nine Tammy Fayes in this show," said Dovalina. He had a smile on his face when he said that.
 
The musical, at times drama, at times comedy, begins with Messner in radiation therapy. Messner‚s rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-redemption life flashes before her eyes in a fantasy that alters and juggles time, events and the people around her. The original score in "The Gospel" covers the gamut from gospel to 1970s disco.
 
Buck, who wrote the music, said the musical is, in the end, a sympathetic portrayal of the televangelist, but, he added, "We don't skirt the scandals and the fall of the PTL empire." 
 
The show is directed by John Garrett, who among his other credits was the principal dancer in the movie "Grease," and choreographed by Aaron Callies, who at one time worked with the late Tejano singer Selena. Dovalina, Buck, Garrett and Callies met while studying under Ostrow.