There was always another tour, another album to make. His itch to move on, to play at something new, was at odds with the time and drudgery needed to write and stage a play. Around 1998, Bowie considered reviving Ziggy Stardust in a multi-tiered offering: play, film, website, album. Outside was once talked up as a Robert Wilson production in Vienna. On it went: countless rumors, nothing produced. He’d play Winston Smith, Marianne Faithfull was considered for Julia, the project was scotched. He was “ keen on writing in such a way that it would lead me into leading some kind of rock musical…I think I wanted to write a new kind of musical, and that’s how I saw my future at the time.” Soon enough, he wanted to make 1984 a musical. In 1971, he envisioned Ziggy Stardust as a hipper Jesus Christ Superstar: he’d originate the role, other singers would take it over for road productions. When he was 21, he drafted Ernie Johnson, a rock opera about a man throwing a suicide party.
Newton starts to sing:ĭavid Bowie had always wanted to write a musical. Now, a keyboard line, a call to attention on snare, guitar and saxophone riffs. This is it now.”īehind a glass wall upstage is a band, who have been onlookers: a smaller audience to mirror the larger in the seats.
An old friend appears, asks him “don’t you remember the person you were? Your life outside?” “That was before,” Newton replies. He stretches, stands up, walks over to his bed. The alien Thomas Jerome Newton grudgingly resurrects.
LAZARUS SONG BY JOHNNY CASH FULL
Something had come full circle: not sure what.) (At a post-Christmas performance that I attended, my friend Rahawa and I sat directly behind Duncan Jones. Hall didn’t move, barely seemed to breathe people taking their seats spoke in hushed tones. It felt a bit like being at a wake, those fifteen minutes before the lights dimmed. Hall if not, you might have thought it was someone playing a corpse, one whose presence would spark the drama once other characters shuffled in. You might have recognized the play’s lead actor, Michael C. Walking into a performance of Lazarus at the New York Theater Workshop in December 2015, the first thing you noticed was a man lying on his back on stage. Lazarus (Gail Ann Dorsey and McCaslin, live, 2017). Lazarus (Donny McCaslin Quartet, live, 2016).
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