Performance of David Bowie musical in NYC becomes a memorial
A performance of David Bowie’s trippy, melancholy musical “Lazarus” turned into a memorial for the Thin White Duke on Tuesday night as fans who had bought tickets to celebrate his music instead found themselves mourning his passing.
“It was incredible. I wept a lot,” said Evan Schwartz, a 20-year-old student from Stanford, Connecticut, who saw the show for a second time after scoring a ticket in an online lottery. “It was beautiful.”
Tuesday night’s performance was the first time since Bowie’s death on Monday that the show went on at the 200-seat New York Theatre Workshop in Manhattan’s East Village. Some audience members left in tears.