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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 locomotives of diesel and electric engines in the hope of impressing a first-class observation car, Pearl.
In 1984, Stilgoe founded the Alchemy Foundation, which distributes money to good causes. The foundation is funded from Stilgoe's royalties from American productions of Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera. Before The Alchemy Foundation, Stilgoe gave all his royalties as lyricist on Starlight Express to a village in India. Such was the ...
The Starlight Express is a children's play by Violet Pearn, [1] based on the imaginative novel A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood, with songs and incidental music written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar in 1915.
"Starlight Express" is the 'showstopper' number from the musical Starlight Express. In the show, it is performed by Rusty , the show's protagonist. Before the song, he has been told by the old steam engine Poppa of a magical locomotive, named the Starlight Express, who will aid him in need.
Greg Ellis (born 21 March 1968) is an English actor who has worked in film, television, video games, and theatre. He is, among other roles, known for playing Chief Engineer Olson in Star Trek (2009), Theodore Groves in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean (2003, 2007-2011), and Trevor Wilcox in Touch (2013), as well as voice roles such as Anders in Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening (2010), Cullen ...
Lon Satton (born Alonzo Louis Lee Staton; February 11, 1927 – October 30, 2020) was an American singer and actor based in the United Kingdom. He is widely known for originating the role of Poppa in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starlight Express, for which Satton received a 1984 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.
Light at the End of the Tunnel is the gospel-style finale number from the musical Starlight Express. The company (all railway locomotives and cars) perform the number as a glorification to Steam. The solo lines are taken by Poppa, an old Steam Locomotive, (and Belle the Sleeping Car before she was cut).
In 1985, Hyde auditioned for a new type of musical at that time, the London production of Starlight Express. She was chosen by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and became first cast 'Pearl' in the following year, at the age of only 16. In 1988, Hyde became the original 'Pearl' in Starlight Express Germany, [1] the most successful musical in history. [2]