Performance of David Bowie musical in NYC becomes a memorial

When asked if the show, which closes on Wednesday, Jan. 20, plans to pay tribute to Bowie in any way, New York Theatre Workshop’s artistic director James Nicola told the Los Angeles Times it was still being discussed. Some audience members left in tears.

It was the first time Bowie’s show – which he wrote with Edna Walsh, and was directed by Ivo Van Hove – has been performed following his tragic death on Monday following an 18-month battle with cancer.

Premiering at the New York Theater Workshop in December 2015, the show was inspired by the 1970s sci-fi film in which Bowie starred, “The Man Who Fell to Earth”. Since David Bowie’s death, the “Lazarus” video has new meaning to his fans.

“I used to go to the library and when other kids were getting books, I was getting “Space Oddity” and bringing it home and playing over and over again”, she said.

More recently I was struck by his deeply sad yet commanding voice in the Love is Lost remix with Clapping Music.

“I had created this one character, Ziggy Stardust; it seemed that I myself would play him because no-one else was doing my stuff”.

David Bowie’s musical, his last show on Earth, will be coming to a London theatre as the musician finally fulfils his childhood dream of writing a show in the West End, it has been confirmed. At one point, the stage is filled with white liquid resembling milk, which some actors bodysurf on.

The story has a recurring theme of creatures caught between worlds and the exhaustion that comes with daily survival.

As much of a chameleon as this ever changing city, David Bowie lived the final years of his life in NY. There is also a video appearance by Alan Cumming.

About 900 people gathered at the sold-out venue and heard the band Holy Holy, featuring bassist Visconti and former Bowie drummer Mick (Woody) Woodmansey.

The musical shares a name with one of the tracks in his Blackstar album, released just two days before his death as a poignant “parting gift” for fans.