Overview

• Based on Walter Tevis' bestselling book The Man Who Fell to Earth • Premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop (Off-Broadway) in the fall of 2015, in a highly anticipated, sold-out production • Premiere production starred Michael C. Hall, famous for playing the titular character on Dexter • Opens on London's West End October 25, 2016 starring Michael C. Hall and directed by Ivo van Hove • Music and lyrics by pop rock icon David Bowie -- making this title appealing to a massive demographic beyond theatre & academic circles, especially with the timing of the play’s original production taking place so close to his death • Enda Walsh also wrote the book for the acclaimed Broadway musical Once, for which he won an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Book; the musical also won the Lucille Lortel Award, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, Drama Desk Award, Laurence Olivier Award, and Tony Award for Best Musical in 2013. It also won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album •His popular plays The Walworth Farce (2006) and The New Electric Ballroom (2004) continue to be performed in major regional theatres across the country each year

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Beautiful...a last transmission from a dying star. - <i>Time Out</i> Blazingly original...adds another mysterious chapter to a career that was full of infinite mystery. - <i>The Stage</i> David Bowie's parting gift to the world - and what a rare and mesmeric testament this is...it s all unforgettable. I sat rapt throughout' - <i>Independent</i> Captivating, tense, and emotional... shows like this don t come along very often. - <i>Radio Times</i> <i>Lazarus</i>...continually emphasizes the surreal over the explicit at nearly every turn... It s all strange and wonderful and heartbreaking and funny in alternating measure. <i>Rolling Stone</i> [A] poignant remembrance as well as a satisfyingly chewy work in its own right. - <i>Financial Times</i> Gripping [a] strangely poetic piece of music theatre... there s nothing at all conventional about this. It is festive. Riotous. Dionysian. Wonderful. - <i>BritishTheatre.com</i> Like David Bowie himself, this is a show that defies definition. It's both all and none of a musical, a play, a gig, performance art, philosophical meditation, a fever dream, a collective trip into the unknown... strangely fascinating and fascinatingly strange. - <i>Broadway World</i> Fascinating to watch... [a] spectacular study of a pained outsider s search for peace. - <i>Guardian</i> Bowie's ghost is movingly present the play feels part celebration, part wake; sorrow and death fug up the theatre like some sort of paranormal mist. - <i>GQ Magazine</i> Intriguing and nuanced... a fitting memorial to one of the giants of popular culture. - <i>Gay Times</i> Outstanding... full of wild energy, magical effects and overwhelming music. - <i>WhatsOnStage</i> Enda Walsh's book is full of longing for love, for peace, for release from earthly ties while songs from Bowie's iconic catalogue, an astonishing legacy spanning four decades, are reimagined in a new context whilst somehow retaining the potency they once exerted during the course of a life richly lived. No jukebox musical, this [the] entire creation is infused with the spirit, the quirkiness, the capriciousness of Bowie, and Walsh could not be more in tune with all of it. - <i>The Arts Desk</i>

Blazingly original...adds another mysterious chapter to a career that was full of infinite mystery. - The Stage David Bowie's parting gift to the world - and what a rare and mesmeric testament this is...it's all unforgettable. I sat rapt throughout' - Independent Captivating, tense, and emotional... shows like this don't come along very often. - Radio Times Lazarus...continually emphasizes the surreal over the explicit at nearly every turn... It's all strange and wonderful and heartbreaking and funny in alternating measure. - Rolling Stone [A] poignant remembrance as well as a satisfyingly chewy work in its own right. - Financial Times Gripping... [a] strangely poetic piece of music theatre... there's nothing at all conventional about this. It is festive. Riotous. Dionysian. Wonderful. - BritishTheatre.com Like David Bowie himself, this is a show that defies definition. It's both all and none of a musical, a play, a gig, performance art, philosophical meditation, a fever dream, a collective trip into the unknown... strangely fascinating and fascinatingly strange. - Broadway World Fascinating to watch... [a] spectacular study of a pained outsider's search for peace. - Guardian Bowie's ghost is movingly present... the play feels part celebration, part wake; sorrow and death fug up the theatre like some sort of paranormal mist. - GQ Magazine Intriguing and nuanced... a fitting memorial to one of the giants of popular culture. - Gay Times Outstanding... full of wild energy, magical effects and overwhelming music. - WhatsOnStage Enda Walsh's book is full of longing - for love, for peace, for release from earthly ties - while songs from Bowie's iconic catalogue, an astonishing legacy spanning four decades, are reimagined in a new context whilst somehow retaining the potency they once exerted during the course of a life richly lived. No jukebox musical, this... [the] entire creation is infused with the spirit, the quirkiness, the capriciousness of Bowie, and Walsh could not be more in tune with all of it. - The Arts Desk

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David Bowie released over thirty albums throughout his fifty years in the music industry, including The Man Who Sold the World, Space Oddity, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Young Americans, Low and Heroes among others. His final album Blackstar was released to critical acclaim in January this year. Also an accomplished actor, Bowie appeared on Broadway in The Elephant Man, and can be seen in many films including The Last Temptation of Christ and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. In 1996, Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1999, he became a Commandeur dans L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Enda Walsh is an award-winning Irish playwright. His plays include Ballyturk, Misterman, Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom, The Walworth Farce, The Small Things, Bedbound and Disco Pigs. He won a Tony Award in 2012 for writing the book for the musical Once. His work has been performed all over the world.

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