Month: December 2015

 

“You want more and you want it fast”

 

Tickets are on sale now (http://smarturl.it/NYTWorg) for a final run of three extra dates for Lazarus on Monday, January 18 at 8PM, Tuesday, January 19 at 8PM, and Wednesday January 20 at 8PM.

Keep reading for the press release.

 

#Lazarus  #LazarusNYTW  #TJNewton  #TMWFTE

 

LAZARUS ADDS THREE MORE PERFORMANCES FOR FINAL EXTENSION AT NYTW

LIMITED RUN MUST CONCLUDE JANUARY 20, 2016

TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT NYTW.ORG

 

(December 7, 2015 – New York, NY) Due to unprecedented demand, New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) has announced a final extension of three additional performances for LAZARUS by David Bowie and Enda Walsh (Once, Tony Award). The fastest selling show in NYTW history, LAZARUS is inspired by the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis and directed by Ivo van Hove (Hedda Gabler, More Stately Mansions,Obie Awards). LAZARUS began previews on November 18 and officially opens tonight, December 7, 2015 at New York Theatre Workshop (79 E. 4th Street New York, NY 10003). The additional performances will be: Monday, January 18 at 8PM, Tuesday, January 19 at 8PM, and Wednesday January 20 at 8PM.

 

The final performance of LAZARUS on January 20, 2016 will benefit NYTW’s artistic development and education programming. Tickets are $1,000 (includes one ticket to the final performance plus a VIP invitation for two to NYTW’s upcoming production of Red Speedo) and $2,500 (includes one ticket to the final performance plus access to an after-party celebrating the run and a VIP invitation for two to NYTW’s upcoming productions of Red Speedo and Hadestown). Funds raised at this one-night only event support NYTW’s Artist Workshop activities through which nearly 2,000 artists develop more than 80 projects each year and their Education Initiatives including Learning Workshop, Mind the Gap, and Public Programs that serve over 1,600 students of all ages. All tickets to the benefit performance include a tax-deductible contribution.

 

Tickets for the additional performances are on sale now at www.nytw.org or by calling 212-460-5475 (Monday noon-6pm; Tuesday-Sunday noon-curtain time).

 

The cast of LAZARUS includes Golden Globe winner and six-time Emmy nominee Michael C. Hall (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, “Dexter”) as Thomas Newton, Tony Award nominee Cristin Milioti (Once) as Elly, and Michael Esper (The Last Ship) as Valentine, as well as Krystina Alabado (American Idiot), Sophia Anne Caruso (The Nether), Nicholas Christopher (Whorl Inside A Loop), Lynn Craig (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Bobby Moreno (Year of the Rooster), Krista Pioppi (Spring Awakening Nat’l Tour), Charlie Pollock (The Wild Party), and Brynn Williams (Bye Bye Birdie).

 

Following his revelatory production of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage, the internationally acclaimed director Ivo van Hove returns to New York Theatre Workshop with LAZARUS. Mr. Walsh makes his return to NYTW after the successful run of Once. LAZARUS features songs specially composed by Mr. Bowie for this production as well as new arrangements of previously recorded songs.

 

The production features scenic and lighting design by Jan Versweyveld; costume design by An D’Huys; video design by Tal Yarden; sound design by Brian Ronan; choreography by Annie-B Parson; music direction by Henry Hey; dramaturgy by Jan Peter Gerrits; stage management by James Latus; and casting by Telsey + Company/Bernard Kelsey, CSA & Andrew Femenella, CSA.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NYTW: www.nytw.org 

 

“We are the best jazz you’ve ever heard”

 

It is with much pleasure that we can report Maria Schneider and Donny McCaslin are both 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees.

Donny is up for BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO for his performance on Arbiters Of Evolution from the Maria Schneider Orchestra’s The Thompson Fields.

Maria herself is up for BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM, again for The Thompson Fields. She is also singled out for BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS for her contribution to the Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) recording.

 

View the full list here.

 

All this in the week that Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) has re-entered the Official Vinyl Singles Chart Top 30 in the UK, where you will also find four other Bowie singles right now.

(Both Maria and Donny are pictured last year with Bowie in our montage. Pictures by Jimmy King)

 

#58thGrammyAwards  #MariaSchneider  #SchneiderMcCaslinBowie

 

“Boogie down with Daddy now”

 

Perhaps it’s not easy to imagine in these days of deluxe box sets with extra tracks and previously unreleased versions, etc., just how big a deal the release of John I’m Only Dancing (Again) was to the Bowie faithful, in December 1979.

Aside from the fact that the record was Bowie’s very first UK 12″ 45, John I’m Only Dancing (Again) was legendary among fans aware of the song’s existence, but who hadn’t actually heard it until this single was issued.

The track seemed to have evaded bootleggers and this release provided the full length version, (along with an edited version for the 7″) not to mention a new mix of the original Ziggy Stardust sessions version of John I’m Only Dancing. This 1979 remix of the original 1972 Ziggy version of John I’m Only Dancing created a third version of the track.

The first version was released by RCA as a UK 45 on September 1st 1972, there was no US release at this time. This version was superseded by a second version recorded during the Aladdin Sane sessions which eventually came to be known as the Sax Version.

It seems this second version was issued without fanfare sometime close to the release of Aladdin Sane in 1973. Though Bowie’s RCA singles remained on catalogue for many years after their release, for a time John I’m Only Dancing was unavailable.

It would appear that once John I’m Only Dancing was once again made available as a back catalogue single, it was the Sax Version, and not the Ziggy version, that unsuspecting buyers got. Either way, the same RCA 2263 catalogue number was used for both pressings.

In fact, it wasn’t until one or two thousand (depends where you read it) ‘mispressed’ copies of the 1976 CHANGESONEBOWIE album were released with the Sax Version included that the different versions became known to fans. Indeed, it’s hard to find a mention, anywhere, of the Sax Version before the CHANGESONEBOWIE mispress.

Therefore, the 1979 remix created a third version, albeit a very slight variation of the original Ziggy version.

To confuse matters further, when RCA pressed black label variations of their 45s in the UK (including the Lifetimes series) they inadvertently created a fourth version by swapping the stereo channels!

Coincidentally, both the 1972 and 1979 45s reached #12 on the UK single chart.

Listen to John I’m Only Dancing (Again) here.

 

#JIOD  #JIODagain  #BowieJohn

 

“Gee my life’s a funny thing”

 

Taped in New York for ABC TV, David Bowie’s appearance on The Dick Cavett Show was first broadcast on December 5th 1974.

Following Cavett’s introduction to a very appreciative audience, Bowie performed 1984 and Young Americans. This was followed by the interview, which, if you’ve never seen it, is not going to be done justice by trying to describe it here. The show ended with a performance of Footstompin’. Can You Hear Me was also taped but not broadcast.

It’s a wonderful bit of TV and a much-loved snapshot of a transitional period for Bowie (wasn’t every period transitional for Bowie?), and you can view the full thing here on YouTube.

Read the transcript of the interview (one of the more bizarre Bowie has ever given) over on the superb The Young American website.  

 

#BowieCavett

 

“New York’s a go-go”

 

The current issue of New York magazine (November 30th – December 13) has a double-page spread of pictures from Lazarus rehearsals taken by Jan Versweyveld.

The photos accompany a brief piece by Rebecca Milzoff, in which she talks to director Ivo van Hove. Here’s an excerpt…

 

Lazarus picks up the story of alien visitor Thomas Newton (played by Michael C. Hall) 30 years after the events of the 1976 sci-fi film The Man Who Fell to Earth (which starred Bowie). Of the 20 Bowie songs used, four are new compositions. “The songs are always there to drive the story,” van Hove explains. “There are more violent songs about the world outside, and then very romantic songs, about the longing for something more poetic and tender in life.”

 

See the full piece online with a gallery of all the pictures from the spread here. Lazarus opens at New York Theatre Workshop on December 7th. 

 

#Lazarus  #LazarusNYTW  #TJNewton  #TMWFTE

 

“When I looked in his eyes they were blue but nobody home”

 

The Duffy Archive has been in touch with another generous offer of two exclusive prints for BowieNetters.

Swipe/scroll (or click on the little dots) for the other print on offer and to see the two Duffy/Bowie cards offered free to the first twenty customers.

Remember if you’re ordering for Christmas, international orders would need to be dispatched by December 10th to arrive in time.

Here are the details followed by the link.

 

The Duffy Archive are proud to announce two new prints exclusively offered to fans for Christmas. Our prints are all printed and handmade in the archive. They come mounted with a choice of a black or white mount with each print embossed with the archive stamp. The print is labelled on the rear with information (and a QR code to our website video page where Duffy talks about the making of the Aladdin Sane album cover) and are bagged in a high quality clear sleeve. Each print is designed to neatly fit into an 12” album sized frame. The perfect gift!

 

Our first image is a reworking of the Ziggy Stardust Contact Sheet, this was the first shoot David worked with Duffy. Together they had a collaboration spanning 5 shoots over an 8 year period, the most famous of which was Aladdin Sane. The original Aladdin Sane dye transfer print is part of the ‘David Bowie is’ world tour which is shortly to land back in Europe at Groningen Museum Holland. The second print shows previously unseen images from the Scary Monsters shoot taken by Chris Duffy after Duffy had shot the main album images. Some of these images were used as publicity photographs to promote the album but the Contact Sheet has never been released and is a real scoop for the ardent fan!

 

This is our best offer to fans yet – why not team up with a fellow fan to take full advantage of our discounts?

 

Go here to order yours.

 

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