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for the Saturday matinee, and again for the evening
performance. Then, as the actors took the curtain
call at the end of the performance, all six girls rose,
carrying their purses, and headed for the stage. ‘It
was instantaneous, they were all tackled from the
sides by I don’t know how many plain-clothes men.
And they were carrying something in their purses,
metallic – they were there to do something dirty. It
was just coo-coo that night.’ The girls were bundled
out of the building by security and Ruta never found
out their intentions, but he is convinced they had set
out to scare David – or worse.
When the show transferred to New York on 23
September, 1980 – after a two-week break for
rehearsals and the installation of a higher-profile
supporting cast – the media frenzy intensified, and
the curtain opened to a star-studded audience
including Christopher Isherwood, Andy Warhol,
David Hockney, Aaron Copland and David’s
Montreux neighbour – and supposed lover – Oona
Chaplin. The New York reviews were generally
effusive or respectful, and with Scary Monsters
nestled at number one in the UK chart, and twelve in
the USA, Bowie finally seemed to have reached the
status of cross-cultural figurehead to which, despite
too many protestations, he obviously aspired. John,
Yoko, Iggy, Esther and May Pang were among the
friends who pressed at the dressing-room door after
the first performances, enthusing over his theatrical
debut. Throughout the month, journalists from
weighty tomes, from the New York Times, to London
papers The Times and Sunday Times, queued up