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  2. Starlight Express - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Andrew Lloyd Webber - Wikipedia

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    Starlight Express runs full-time in a custom-built theatre in Bochum, Germany, where it has been running since 1988. [45] The German production holds the Guinness World Record for most visitors to a musical in a single theatre. [46] Lloyd Webber wrote a Requiem Mass dedicated to his father, William, who had died in 1982.

  4. U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D. - Wikipedia

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    Starlight Express has had many revisions made to the costumes, make-up, choreography, wigs, set, characters and musical numbers. Of all the notable musical numbers in Starlight Express, U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D (along with 'Right Place, Right Time') has had no revision made to the number at all.

  5. Lon Satton - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Starlight Sequence - Wikipedia

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    The Starlight Sequence is a showstopper from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express. It is performed by Rusty , a young, naive Steam Locomotive and the Starlight Express, a magical Steam Locomotive that comes at midnight to help Steam Locomotives in need.

  7. Apollo Victoria Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Opened in 1930 as a cinema and variety theatre, the Apollo Victoria became a venue for musical theatre, beginning with The Sound of Music in 1981, and including the long-running Starlight Express, from 1984 to 2002. The theatre is currently the home of the musical Wicked, which has played at the venue since 27 September 2006.

  8. Light at the End of the Tunnel (musical number) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  9. Starlight Express (song) - Wikipedia

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    "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.