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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.
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.
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.
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 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 ...
Starlight’s 2025 concerts will be announced in the coming months. Starlight’s 2025 Broadway season “Mean Girls,” May 20-25: Like Tina Fey’s 2004 movie and the 2024 movie-musical remake, ...
Robert Felix Torti (born October 22, 1961) is an American actor of stage and screen.. Torti was honored with a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut as Greaseball in Starlight Express (1984).
Ray Shell (born 22 September 1951) [1] is an American film, TV and stage actor, as well as an author, singer, director and producer. He is known for creating the roles of Nomax in Five Guys Named Moe (1990) and Rusty in Starlight Express (1984).
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