Tituss Burgess had something to confess. “I don’t know anything about David Bowie,” he said one spring afternoon.

Nothing?

“Nothing,” he said. “You would think … but no. I somehow missed him.”

Despite this gaping cultural blind spot, Mr. Burgess, 39, found himself transfixed at the flashing lights and silver jumpsuit that made up the striking opening tableau of “David Bowie Is,” an immersive, audiovisual survey of the iconoclastic musician’s life at the Brooklyn Museum. (It closed on July 15.)

He turned a corner and gazed up in amazement as costumed Bowie mannequins peered down from a towering platform, like glamorous gargoyles. “Oh my God, this man was everything,” Mr. Burgess said, mouth agape. “He was much more than just a recording artist, really. Now I just want to go home and Spotify him.”

Don’t count on Mr. Burgess having much time to explore Bowie’s discography any time soon. Part 1 of the final season of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” in which he stars as Titus Andromedon, a flamboyant and egomaniacal actor, was recently released on Netflix.