![]() ![]() Andrew, in a crenelated black shirt and sky-high black platform boots, had Bowie’s chiseled cheeks and blond swoosh of locks. There was also a mother-and-son team, Eileen and Andrew Petrilak. One seat neighbor, a sharply dressed 60-ish man, turned out to have caught every Bowie tour since 1976, and spent two weeks following the epic Serious Moonlight tour around Europe. “I’m sorry, there’s just so much to say about Bowie.”Ī smattering of Bowie shirts aside, the diehards in the theater weren’t as easy to identify as Tommy. “I’ve only just started to analyze it,” he said. “I was like, ‘Wow, there’s an Asian person on TV, and it’s not kung fu–related.’” Now he was pulling out another pop artifact, a CD booklet of Blackstar, and parsing the lyrics. ![]() “China Girl,” a piece of Sinophilia that felt mildly offensive even in the ‘80s, struck Tommy as a revelation. What hooked him, as a child, were the MTV videos. He’s been to Bowie concerts, TV tapings, Tibet House benefit shows. Tommy has “at least a dozen” Bowie shirts, one of them a women’s large (bought as an act of gender defiance). ” A member of Bowie’s “secret” Facebook fan site, he’d found out about Bowie’s death on Monday at 1:45 a.m., three minutes after it was posted. He’d already seen Lazarus the night after its official opening, but now he said, “I want to experience what we still have. Right up front was King Tommy Au-Yeung, a massage therapist wearing a long ponytail, a black headband, a fuzzy black flower, a sequined black jacket, and a sepia Bowie T-shirt. There was talk of a Broadway transfer.įriday’s cancellation line was a dozen souls deep. After Bowie died, tickets were being scalped for four figures a final benefit show on Wednesday costs up to $2,500 per head. Lazarus sold out within hours in October, leading quickly to an as-quickly-sold-out extension. Along with Bowie’s final album, Blackstar - released on Bowie’s 69th birthday, two days before his death from cancer - it feels inevitably like the artist’s last will or, if you like, his first message from beyond. Lazarus, the tale of a stranded alien who can’t die, bears the name of a dead man resurrected. “So, I just- ” she turned to Slattery, “I just miss you!” She took a breath.īowie might have appreciated the cosmic coincidence. “It turns out we’re also sitting next to each other,” Sheila said. Four days later, here she was talking to Slattery, who happened to be seeing Lazarus on the same night. Her plus-one for tonight had then texted, “Can you get a bereavement day?” And she just knew. “Thinking about you,” someone had written. Sheila had found out about Bowie’s death via cryptic texts from friends. ![]() She wore a black coat with a broad collar and quilted sleeves and liquefying blue eye shadow, and she’d just run into Jenny Slattery, her best friend from high school, whom she hadn’t seen in more than a decade. “He was someone who was just free, so free,” said Sheila Bandyopadhyay, an acting teacher who was choking back tears. Theater: Ivo Van Hove’s Thin White Lazarus ![]()
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