You proposed that Enda Walsh write Lazarus – what made you suggest him? He was obsessed by the character and took an option out on the novel of The Man Who Fell to Earth a long time before he came to me with the idea of turning it into a musical.ĭavid Bowie in a scene from The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976. The character’s isolation and fame are probably an aspect of it and he probably identified with the fact that Newton was a huge drinker – David had been in his time and then got clean and sober. The character must have had a big effect on him to want to make a musical based on him all that time afterwards. What was it about Newton that inspired him? Lazarus continues the story of Thomas Newton, who Bowie played in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth. With the wave of lockdown streaming – something David would have been up for and interested in – it felt like the right time. Rather than just bang it out at the time, I talked with David’s management and we felt the right thing to do would be to wait until five years had passed since his death. When we saw the finished article it turned out to be very powerful, quite a different experience. Initially it was for archive but we did it with seven or eight cameras like they do NT Live. Was the film ever intended to be shown publicly? Lazarus was recorded during its run at King’s Cross theatre in London.
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