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.

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.

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