NewsBowie's Lazarus Plays Its Final Performance Off-Broadway TonightThe New York Theatre Workshop production of David Bowie and Enda Walsh's musical Lazarus plays its final performance Jan. 20. Outside the Off-Broadway venue, fans and theatregoers have tearfully mourned the death of music icon Bowie since he unexpectedly lost his battle with cancer Jan. 10.
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Tickets to the special benefit performance tonight are valued between $1,000-$2,500.
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Don't Miss These Haunting First Pics of Michael C. Hall, Cristin Milioti and Cast in David Bowie's Lazarus
Don't Miss These Haunting First Pics of Michael C. Hall, Cristin Milioti and Cast in David Bowie's Lazarus
Following previews that began Nov. 18, the world-premiere production of Lazarus, by Tony-winning playwright Enda Walsh (Once) with music by David Bowie, officially opens Off-Broadway Dec. 7. The cast includes "Dexter" and Hedwig star Michael C. Hall, Cristin Milioti (Once) and The Last Ship's Michael Esper.
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Michael Esper, Lynn Craig, and Nicholas Christopher
The world-premiere musical features new songs specially composed by Bowie as well as new arrangements of previously recorded songs. Inspired by Walter Tevis' best-selling 1963 novel, "The Man Who Fell to Earth," the story follows Thomas Newton 鈥� played by 鈥� a human-looking and lovelorn alien who has been abandoned on the planet.
The Off-Broadway production, which officially opened Dec. 7, 2015, is helmed by Obie winner . Along with Hall, the cast also includes (Once), , (), Sophia (The Nether), (Whorl Inside A Loop), Lynn Craig (), (Year of the Rooster), Krista Pioppi ( national tour), (The Wild Party) and ().