Tue 9/23 @ 7:30PM
Everyone knows the legend about David Bowie and Cleveland: that our city was responsible for his breakout in 1972 with his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
Thing is, it’s true. He played his first ever U.S. concert at Cleveland’s Music Hall in September 1972, sold out in advance thanks to heavy airplay from the then-influential WMMS, when rock fans in most other cities were still going “Who?” He returned two months later to play back-to-back nights at the three-times-larger Public Hall.
So the new Bowie documentary David Bowie Is should get a good response here. It’s scheduled to screen one evening in nearly 100 cities coast to coast, most of which didn’t pick up on his distinctive, theatrical glitter rock until years after Clevelanders did. It will play here at the Capitol Theatre in Gordon Square.
The film tells the story of an exhibit that recently closed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, devoted to Bowie’s colorful, creative, and constantly evolving career. And there’s some additional good news for Clevelanders: the exhibit will be opening on the same day as the film screening, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, a mere six-seven hour trip away (and a great place to spend the weekend anyway).
Tickets are $12.50, and you can reserve them here.
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