“I got a call back in May or June I had worked with Ivo before and with Enda Walsh before, and they called asking would you like to be a part of this and I talked with them for a little bit and then just leaped in.” “I jumped in blind because of the people involved,” she explains.
The reception can’t be too surprising for Milioti, considering how quickly she herself climbed aboard the project. Since Lazarus opened in December, the experimental show’s played to sold-out crowds at Manhattan’s New York Theatre Workshop and has been the subject of international attention, thanks not only to the Bowie connection-in addition to conceiving the show, he lent a number of new and classic songs-but also the power of the show itself, directed by Ivo van Hove and starring Milioti and Michael C. “All the times after that,” she notes, “I never was nervous.” And she thinks it was the best possible way to break the ice with the icon. “I don’t see very well and I wasn’t wearing my glasses, and I saw that there was someone in the room, but I couldn’t make out his face,” Milioti, who stars in Lazarus, a new play created and scored by Bowie, says.
The first time that Cristin Milioti sang for David Bowie, she had no idea he was even listening.
