LAZARUS MUSICAL CRACK

LAZARUS MUSICAL CRACK

Bowie might crack a smile at such an assessment: It’s a charge that’s undoubtedly been leveled against all of his albums.

What does it all add up to? “Visionary crap,” pronounced a man sitting behind me at the end of a preview performance. She’s Newton’s delusion, guardian angel and victim, and sings “Life on Mars?” as the showstopper it was always meant to be, handling the octave vaults in the refrains with effortless ease. The musical also features a psychotic with a penchant for stabbing people, Valentine (Michael Esper, who delivers his spotlight number with his smiling face smeared in blood), and Newton’s assistant, Elly (Cristin Milioti), who’s a set of walking nerves, constantly scrabbling in and out of her clothes, once while singing a gin-soaked “Changes.” The heart of the play is a nameless girl played by Sophia Anne Caruso (an astonishing young talent, whom I expect will be starring in Broadway plays for the rest of the century). He’s in the same condition as he was at the end of the film: drunk, isolated, missing his home planet. Stuck in his apartment with the blinds drawn, Newton is essentially Bowie’s album Low made flesh. Hall as Thomas Jerome Newton, the exiled extraterrestrial that Bowie portrayed in The Man Who Fell to Earth. It helps that Bowie got pros to do some of the heavy lifting-co-writer Enda Walsh ( Once) and star Belgian director Ivo van Hove (most recently seen at NYTW with his Scenes From a Marriage)-and that the cast is impeccable. The new songs are more functional than memorable, though it’s brutal to be debuted amid Bowie’s standards. While some song performances are revelatory, a few feel like Bowie classics being shoehorned into place. Lazarus, opening this week at New York Theatre Workshop in Manhattan, is a strange full-length musical with some strikingly directed sequences and 18 Bowie songs: some warhorses, some relative obscurities, four new ones (including the title song). Now, nearing his 69 th birthday and having (apparently) retired from touring, he’s finally done it. And there was always yet another tour, yet another album to make. This live-streamed event will be available for three performances only in multiple time zones (GMT, AEDT, EST, PST, CST) from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 January 2021.In part, this was because Bowie’s itch to move on, his hunger to play something new, was at odds with the hours of toil needed to write and stage a play. The London production opened in November 2016 where it played a sold-out run. Lazarus opened at The New York Theatre Workshop in November 2015. Lazarus co-stars Sophia Anne Caruso (“Beetlejuice” on Broadway) and the production is directed by Ivo van Hove (“All About Eve”, “Network” and “A View From The Bridge”). Michael C Hall (“Dexter”, “Six Feet Under”) stars as Newton, the character famously portrayed by David Bowie in the 1976 screen adaptation of The Man Who Fell To Earth directed by Nicolas Roeg. We follow Newton over the course of a few days where the arrival of another lost soul - might finally set him free. Inspired by the book, The Man Who Fell To Earth, by Walter Tevis (“The Queen’s Gambit”) Lazarus focuses on Thomas Newton, as he remains still on Earth - a 'man' unable to die, his head soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. Lazarus includes songs from Bowie’s iconic catalogue as well as new songs written for the stage including the title song, Lazarus. This will be the UK premiere of the filmed version of this remarkable show. The streaming will be available for three performances only.

To remember David Bowie on his birthday and to mark the fifth anniversary of his untimely death, producers Robert Fox and RZO Entertainment Inc are exclusively releasing the stream of the London production of Lazarus, captured live on stage. A SURREALISTIC TOUR DE FORCE.” – Rolling Stone Sunday 10 January, 3pm – fifth anniversary of David Bowie’s death

INSPIRED BY THE NOVEL The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter TevisĮxclusive Premiere Streaming on Dice.fm - TICKETS HERE NOWįriday 8 January, 7pm – David Bowie’s birthday The headline says it all, keep reading for the press release.

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