Starman

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Company: WTFunk Productions

Genre: Play - Drama

Venue: 3 Pantages Studio

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E.T. meets David Bowie in this story of a suicidal young man and the star that falls into his mom's flower bed tasked with helping him "find his light" before he moves on to the afterworld.

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Writer/performer Kelsey Funk calls this her homage to David Bowie. Whereas Bowie tried on one persona at a time, however, Starman tries too hard to be everything at once.

The plot addresses suicide, sexual confusion, romance and new age philosophy while building a mythology for the titular Starman. However, that never quite gels. The staging mixes musical theatre and contemporary dance into a dialogue-heavy two hander.

There are highlights. The script has some good jokes (a conversation with Siri is not a new idea, but the sequence stands out here) and the live musical accompaniment of instrumental Bowie covers is sublime.

ThisStarmangets points for ambition, but didn't blow my mind.- Kelly Stifora

In the end, this Starman gets points for ambition, but didn't blow my mind.