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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1984 train musical Starlight Express has come steaming back into London and, says the Telegraph’s Chief Theatre Critic Dominic Cavendish, “is out of this world”.
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 ...
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 ...
Nostalgia will undoubtedly lure many to a London revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. It has more in common with a theme park than with theater, our critic writes. By Houman Barekat The ...
And yet to complain ‘Starlight Express’ isn’t very clever is like complaining tigers aren’t very good at accountancy. It exists as pure spectacle, and where the original production ran out ...
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 ...
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 ...
Starlight Sequence, a howling banger of a duet, finds Rusty (Jeevan Braich) responding to Big Momma in a croon that veers between Luther Vandross and Smokey Robinson. Kayna Montecillo, as Pearl ...
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 ...
Learn all about the acclaimed new production of this roller-skating musical and find your Starlight Express London tickets now You might know Starlight Express as that musical about trains in ...
I’ve no idea how they do it, but I’m glad they do. Starlight Express is an enjoyable show with an even more impressive cast. This isn’t just choreography - it’s choreography on wheels, performed at ...