Starlight Express
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Starlight Express is a unique musical performed on roller skates.
Synopsis
The story is set in a child’s dream in which toy trains come to life and compete to become the fastest engine in the world.
The central character, Rusty the steam train, races against others including Electra, the electric train, and Greaseball, the diesel engine.
The musical combines elements of a fairy tale and a spectacle, with themes of love, ambition, and the challenge of modernity, all set against a backdrop of energetic and dynamic music and dance on wheels.
About the show
- Written by: Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Yazbek, Don Black, Richard Stilgoe
- Premiered: 1984
- Genres & themes: 1980s, Fantasy, Musical, Roller-Skating, Two Act
- Setting:
Songs from Starlight Express
- Overture
- Rolling Stock
- Call Me Rusty
- A Lotta Locomotion
- Pumping Iron
- Freight
- AC/DC
- He Whistled at Me
- The Race
- There’s Me
- Poppa’s Blues
- Belle the Sleeping Car
- Starlight Express
- The Rap
- U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.
- Right Place, Right Time
- I Am the Starlight
- He Whistled at Me (Reprise)
- Race: The Final
- No Comeback
- One Rock ‘n’ Roll Too Many
- Only He
- Only You
- Light at the End of the Tunnel