Co-written by and featuring songs by David Bowie, this jukebox musical based on The Man Who Fell to Earth is a thrilling theatrical odyssey – and almost impossible to understand. 4/5
David Bowie's 'Lazarus' Is Surrealistic Tour de Force.
Singer-songwriter's musical is milk-swimming, lingerie-sniffing, gin-chugging theater at its finest
Does the result live up to expectations? That will depend on your devotion to the Thin White Duke — or whether you can score a ticket, given that the extended run is already pretty much sold out through its Jan. 20 closing date. The show is an alienation alt-musical that channels the trippy dream state of an alcoholic extraterrestrial insomniac. So the two intermission-less hours of Lazarus are predictably strange, often impenetrable and a tad pretentious, but always fascinating, even when distancing.
I wanna see it 