Lazarus review – David Bowie's oblique jukebox musical fails to bring him back

Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia
Although technically impressive and with admirable performances, the experimental show falls a little flat

In the early 1980s, at his pop peak, David Bowie bought an apartment in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, and filmed his still-provocative video to Let’s Dance in Carinda, New South Wales – enough of a reason for Australians to rechristen him “Our Dave”.

Now, in an Australian first, Bowie’s final creative effort has arrived at Melbourne’s Playhouse Theatre: the elegiac art-musical Lazarus.

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