Is it a musical? Is it a roller derby? Is it a game-show? When the roller-skating phenomenon that is “Starlight Express” opened in London in 1984 it was all of those and more, as evidenced by its ...

Surely the Troubadour was made for this production? As soon as you enter the vast foyer, you are greeted with more glitter-balls than a particularly sparkly episode of Strictly. The auditorium itself ...

We still get to meet Rusty and Pearl, Greaseball, Electra, and all the others, as well as some new ones paired (watch out for Carrie and the details on her costume) with beloved old songs and new ...

Following news of the end of its London run, Starlight Express will embark on a world tour. The musical tells the story of Rusty the steam train, who dreams of becoming the fastest engine in the world ...

I was at the 1984 West End press night of the original Starlight, as it happens, and vividly recall the technical glitches that beset the opening, as well as the general dismay expressed back then at ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Starlight Express" is back, four decades after making its West End debut. Critics may have "sneered" at the show in the past for "lacking sophistication", and admittedly Richard ...

The first time around, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s train-tastic musical opus Starlight Express ran for a walloping 18 years, one of the most successful theatre productions in West End history. The second ...

Fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber often have difficulty defending Starlight Express, his roller-skating juggernaut which ran for 18 years. But, for many people in their 20s and 30s, Starlight was an entry ...

LONDON -- Andrew Lloyd Webber's roller-skating extravaganza Starlight Express will close in London after being seen by more than 8 million people. Hailed for high-tech wizardry when it opened in 1984, ...

Starlight Express, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre. This revamped 1984 musical about toy trains that come to life for a championship race wallows in ethnic and sexual stereotypes ...

In 1974, Andrew Lloyd Webber began working on songs for an animated TV series based on the Thomas the Tank Engine children’s books. It didn’t pan out, but the idea of singing, anthropomorphic trains ...