Starlight Express

Synopsis

The theatre is completely transformed as Rusty (the shy steam engine) races against Greaseball (the flashy diesel locomotive) to win the love of the most beautiful carriage in town, Pearl. Fuses state of the art technology, electrifying songs and music,dazzling sets and costumes. Two hours of speed, spectacle, excitement and energy!

Our Review:

Scott Purvis - 5 July 2012

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express is to the train shed what Toy Story was to the toy box. A child plays with his model trains in the darkness of his room, breathing colourful lives into them and pitting them against each other in dangerous and dynamic races. An outmoded and outdated “Little Engine that Could” named Rusty sets out to prove himself as a steam train in an ever-modernising world of electricity, win the heart of a cute carriage and crush the competition.

As you might have somehow worked out already, the plot is secondary to the spectacle, but that doesn't matter in the slightest. This is a wonderful theme park ride of a production, full of noise and smoke and light. Christine Daae never descended to the Phantom's layer on rollerskates, nor did Eva Peron reach out in glorious 3D to the descamisados beneath her balcony, but that's not the point. Phantom and Evita did the drama; Starlight finds the fun.

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