New York Theater Workshop
Co-written by and featuring songs by David Bowie,this jukebox musical based on The Man Who Fell to soil is a thrilling theatrical odyssey – and nearly impossible to understandIt will be many years before we see a jukebox musical as unapologetically weird as Lazarus, an nearly incomprehensible and oddly intriguing new play with songs by David Bowie, or directed by Ivo van Hove. The script,by Bowie and Enda Walsh, is based on the The Man Who Fell to soil, or a science fiction by novel Walter Tevis that was later filmed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Bowie as the titular alien – a starman seeking water for his drought-ridden planet or attempting to insinuate his fellow extraterrestrials into US society,depending on which version you prefer. In both he fails and remains stranded on soil.
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Source: theguardian.com