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.
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 – played by Michael C. Hall – a human-looking and lovelorn alien who has been abandoned on the planet.
The Fred Ebb Award recognizes excellence in musical theatre songwriting, by a songwriter or songwriting team that has not yet achieved significant commercial success.