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Starlight Express

Opened 1987

761 performances

Musical, Megamusical

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Starlight Express is a 1984 musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, that races in a championship against modern locomotives of diesel and electric engines in the hope of impressing a first-class/observation car, Pearl.

Music
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Productions4 productions: 1 on Broadway, 3 in the West End

1984
ProductionLondon
1984
Apollo Victoria TheatreLondon Original
1987
Gershwin TheatreBroadway Original, opened March 15, 1987, directed by Trevor Nunn
761 performances
2003
ProductionLondon

Songs9 songs

Rolling Stock, Engine of Love, Pumping Iron, Make Up My Heart, Starlight Express, I Am the Starlight, Only You, One Rock and Roll Too Many, Light at the End of the Tunnel

Recordings 17 recordings

Starlight Express
Starlight Express
Starlight Express ? 41216
Starlight Express Really Useful Records TOS208CD
United Kingdom
1984
Starlight Express Polydor 821 597-2, released September 25, 1984
Germany
1984
Starlight Express Polydor 821 597-2, released October 4, 1984
United Kingdom
1987
Music & Songs From Starlight Express
Music & Songs From Starlight Express MCA Records MCAD-5972, released 1987
United States
1988
Starlight Express: Deutsche Originalaufnahme
Starlight Express: Deutsche Originalaufnahme CBS CBS 462585 2, released 1988
Germany
1989
Starlight Express Stella Music SP SE 0103/89, released 1989
Germany
1989
Starlight Express (1989 Bochum cast) Released 1989
Germany
1989
Starlight Express mr. heartbeat records HR 0002, released 1989
Germany
1991
Starlight Express (1991 Bochum cast)
Starlight Express (1991 Bochum cast) Polydor 305169; Polydor 511 154-2, released 1991
Germany
1993
The New Starlight Express
The New Starlight Express Polydor 519 041-2, released 1993
Europe
1996
The New Starlight Express Hip‐O Records, released October 22, 1996
United States
1999
The New Starlight Express Really Useful Records 5300410, released June 18, 1999
United Kingdom
2005
Starlight Express Polydor 9874448, released November 7, 2005
United Kingdom
2014
Starlight Express - Original Jubiläumsausgabe Bochum 2013
Starlight Express - Original Jubiläumsausgabe Bochum 2013 HitSquad Records 668354, released 2014
Germany
2024
Starlight Express Really Useful Records, released November 15, 2024
Worldwide

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