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quote:Originally posted by Tom Coates:
Didn't Bowie star in a stage production of the elephant man a few hundred years ago?
You betcha. Info here. (Scary Monsters had just come out, to give a sense of time.) Apparently, Mr Jones was quite credible in his role, and garnered good reviews - unfortunately this acting style didn't hold true for his performance in Fire, Walk With Me, in which he was shit. But then, he was up against midgets in that one.
Alas, the performance doesn't seem to have featured prosthetics. Bowie au natrel, using physicality rather than padding to become the character. Would've been interesting, but I'm sure it would've been a bigger hit had he done it in a Ziggy stylee. How you'd work guitar fellatio into a tale of deformity, though, is beyond me.
Would you believe, though, that Patrick White's Voss was turned into a musical once? Sweet merciful christ; I can't imagine that without cringing. |
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