Melbourne Recital Centre: John Cameron Mitchell
9 September @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm AEST

Theatrical icon John Cameron Mitchell celebrates the music and lyrics of David Bowie with Jude York and Amber Martin.
Two-time Tony Award-winning star and creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell makes his Melbourne Recital Centre debut with I’m Afraid of Americans – A Bowie Song Cycle, a riveting theatrical concert celebrating David Bowie.
Gary Oldman once said of the rock icon, ‘Don’t you feel that since he died, the world’s gone to sh*t?’ John agrees and blends Bowie’s most apocalyptic songs with songs of quiet healing into an emotionally electrifying journey that explains how Hedwig was born (Bowie was an early supporter) and how the cultural icon predicted where the world is today, exactly ten years after he left us.
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