For other uses, see Starlight Express (disambiguation).
Starlight Express
Logo for the Japan/Australia tour, 1987–1988
Music
Andrew Lloyd Webber Alastair Lloyd Webber (additional music)
Lyrics
Richard Stilgoe Lauren Aquilina (additional lyrics) Don Black (additional lyrics) Nick Coler (additional lyrics) David Yazbek (additional lyrics)
Productions
1984 West End 1987 Broadway 1987 Australasia Tour 1988 Bochum 1989 US Tour 1993 Las Vegas 1997 Mexico City 2003 2nd US Tour 2004 UK Tour 2009 New Zealand Tour 2012 2nd UK Tour 2013 Asia Tour 2013 Johannesburg 2013 Tuacahn 2017 UK Workshop 2024 London revival
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Starlight Express is a 1984 musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe.[1] It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, who races in a championship against modern engines in the hope of impressing a first-class observation car, Pearl. Famously, the actors perform on roller skates.[2][3]
Running for 7,409 performances in London, Starlight Express is the ninth-longest-running West End show. It is the most successful musical in Germany, where it has been performed in a purpose-built theatre since 1988, holding the Guinness World Record for most visitors to a musical in a single theatre.[4]
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^Gerstenmaier, Kristina (30 June 2019). ""Starlight Express" in Bochum feiert neuen Rekord". Archived from the original on 24 July 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
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Palladium and as the voice of Control in the 2004–2013 UK tour of StarlightExpress - The 3rd Dimension, on which her father, Peter Hagen, was musical...
actress and singer, best known for originating the role of Pearl in StarlightExpress on Broadway. Rice was born in Toledo, Ohio to Flute and Pearl Esterine...
originated the role of Dinah the Dining Car in the Broadway production of StarlightExpress (1987). She has since won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress...
the Northern Stage. In 2017, she workshopped Andrew Lloyd Webber's StarlightExpress at The Other Palace in London and made her television debut with a...
Ruffelle starred as Dinah in the original West End production of StarlightExpress. From 1985, she was the original Éponine in the first English-language...
first straight plays; and musicals such as Singin' in the Rain and StarlightExpress. The theater continued to host concert appearances in the early 1990s...
the principal female role, in the original London production of StarlightExpress, in which she performed on roller-skates. Lawrence appeared in a musical...
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with a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Greaseball in StarlightExpress, which marked his Broadway debut. His work on Broadway also includes...
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beginning with The Sound of Music in 1981, and including the long-running StarlightExpress, from 1984 to 2002. The theatre is currently the home of the musical...
which is funded from his royalties from the American productions of StarlightExpress and The Phantom of the Opera. He is patron of the Surrey Care Trust...
the national tours of A Chorus Line (2010), Spamalot (2006), and StarlightExpress (2003–2004). Born in New Hampshire, Hurder grew up in Windham, Maine...
Scaramouche. She began her career in musicals in Germany – such as Cats and StarlightExpress. After West End success in Saturday Night Fever and Fame, she went...
creating the roles of Nomax in Five Guys Named Moe (1990) and Rusty in StarlightExpress (1984). He is a Creative Director of the Giant Olive Theatre Company...
shows, the theatre reopened on 9 December 2004 with a performance of StarlightExpress. This refurbishment involved expanding the stage and the height of...
book series The Railway Series (which also inspired Webber to create StarlightExpress) in which Thomas the Tank Engine and the other locomotives are referred...
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