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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.
It includes songs from the musicals The Phantom of the Opera, Tell Me on a Sunday, Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Starlight Express and Requiem. Co-writers of the songs include Tim Rice, Don Black, Richard Stilgoe, Charles Hart and Trevor Nunn. The album spent two weeks at number one in the UK Compilation Chart in January 1989. [1] [2]
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.
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 ...
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.
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).
"Memory - Theme from the musical Cats" "The Lost Variation" Andrew Lloyd Webber MCA Records "Memory" "The Overture from Cats" Elaine Paige Really Useful Records, Polydor Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Trevor Nunn after T. S. Eliot. Taken from the album Cats: Original Cast Recording "Memory" "Evergreen (Love Theme From A Star Is Born)"
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).