David Bowie’s musical ‘Lazarus’ features tracks that “sound like classics”

David Bowie is currently at work on a new musical stage show based on his film ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’. The project, titled ‘Lazarus’, will premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop in December, and though Bowie will not appear in the play, he has been contributing new songs for the production.

First released in 1976, ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’ is a sci-fi fantasy about the extraterrestrial (Bowie) who crash lands to Earth in search of water for his suffering, drought-ridden planet.

The current stage production is co-written between Bowie and Enda Walsh, and directed by Ivo van Hove, who has told the BBC that Bowie’s new material “sound as if you have heard them for ever - like classics.”

“There are romantic songs - because his songs are deeply romantic,” says van Hove. “There are songs about violence and the ugly world surrounding us. That’s what these new songs are about… he is going to give his songs a new skin”.

Read the interview between Ivo van Hove and the BBC over on their website.