At times there are three Mary-Lous on stage: Milloti, Caruso, and a woman projected on the TV screen. “It makes you look like a Smurf,” her boyfriend says. That prompts Milloti’s character attempts to become Newton’s girlfriend Mary-Lou (Candy Clark in the movie version), complete with blue hair. One couple (Lynn Craig, Nicholas Christopher) can’t stop groping each other, another couple (Cristin Milloti, Bobby Moreno) no longer has sex. And there’s one effect with dozens of giant black balloons that epitomizes your worst fear, whatever it may be. After another stabbing, the victim appears to bleed milk. “Lazarus” could be subtitled “Murder Most Extravagant.” To signal one killing, the giant TV screen that dominates the stage slowly turns red. He’s terribly friendly until he’s terribly lethal, and Newton, cowering in the corner, is powerless to stop the mayhem. David Bowies last music video released prior to his death depicts him on a death bed, entering a better world through a closet. Valentine keeps showing up at people’s apartments uninvited. David Bowie: Lazarus: Directed by Johan Renck. Murder here is up-close and personal, and committed by an almost ever-present knife held by a man in black named Valentine (Michael Esper being malovent in the nicest way possible). The only difference is that “Lazarus” eschews gunfire. Imagine falling asleep to a TCM festival of film noir classics, interspersed with Melies’ “A Trip to the Moon.” Your resulting nightmare, informed by all those movies on TV, is “Lazarus.”Īlso Read: 'China Doll' Broadway Review: Al Pacino, David Mamet Play With Politics and Greed None of this gives you any idea of what it’s like to experience “Lazarus” in the theater. You tried to leave once before – and people did experiments on you and they hurt you really bad – turned you crazy….” You got real rich - started a bunch of companies. Newton, on the other hand, keeps referring to characters, especially the Girl (Sophia Anne Caruso) as not being real, as a projection of his imagination.Īt one point, the Girl gives us some backstory regarding the alien, “You were sent here from another planet and you never got back to your family. In the NYTW credits, the government is represented by characters listed as the Teenage Girl 1, 2, and 3 (Krystina Alabado, Krista Pioppi, Brynn Williams) who keep glancing at their program to help the alien. Hall at his most tortured) prisoner.Īlso Read: 'School of Rock' Broadway Review: Julian Fellowes, Andrew Lloyd Webber Try to Rock The musical version begins with that imprisonment and only makes occasional references to the government that has kept Newton ( Michael C. In the movie and novel, the alien Newton escapes from the hotel-prison where he has been held captive, addicted to alcohol and television. Opening Monday at Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop, “Lazarus” is “inspired” by Walter Tevis’ novel “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” which Nicolas Roeg made into a successful sci-fi film starring Bowie in 1976. That may not sound like much of a compliment, but when you put David Bowie‘s musical catalogue at the service of book writers Bowie and Enda Walsh and director Ivo van Hove, the result is more than unique.
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