But “Starlight Express” is more theme park than theater. It’s Legoland for the stage. In his playbill notes, Lloyd Webber recalls how the show was originally inspired by his love of the ...

Starlight Express is an enjoyable show with an even more impressive ... And you come out humming the theme tune. The scooter riders launch into backflips and tricks that wouldn’t look out of place in ...

Fans of Starlight Express are likely to shed a few tears tonight when the curtain finally falls on its 18-year run. By the end of the final show at the Apollo Victoria in central London ...

But “Starlight Express” is more theme park than theater. It’s Legoland for the stage. Clive Davis, The Times: Will this staging dazzle all those youngsters who have virtual reality headsets ...

That in itself announces the head-spinning wonderland that director Luke Sheppard and co have conjured, as they trundle Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express ... part theme-park ride, part ...

Who knew blunt force trauma could be so enjoyable? Starlight Express is back. And it’s a two-and-a-half-hour neon fever dream, where people on roller skates in iridescent costumes pretend to be ...

Starlight Express made its triumphant return to stages in London earlier this year, after originally hitting West End stages back in the 1980s. This year, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber brought the "out ...

Quite possibly the most aggressively ‘80s artefact in existence, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ is a musical about anthropomorphic roller skating trains that often feels like ...

Forty years after it first opened, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s roller-skating musical extravaganza Starlight Express is back on stage. Admittedly less well-remembered than the 1984 London production ...

A childhood memory reconfirmed, as livid and stirring as it was back then. STARLIGHT EXPRESS has something magical, something beyond the costumes and the roller-skater action (and far beyond the ...