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:

Barbara Maxwell - 27 March 2013

Starlight Express, with music by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, with additional lyrics by David Yazbeck, was first conceived in 1975 as a sort of Cinderella story with trains. Lloyd Webber envisaged the possibility of it becoming an animated film, but this never happened. Then in 1983 he re-wrote it as a musical for stage for his two children. It opened at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London and ran for eighteen years, having a re-vamp with new music and lyrics in 1992.

The production now showing at The Bristol Hippodrome is wonderful. The musical tells the story of a race between train engines for the world championship. We have Greaseball a diesel train who is the reigning world champion, played by Jamie Capewell (shades of Elvis), Electra an electric train and a very colourful character played by Mykal Rand and the no-hoper Rusty, a steam train, played by Kristofer Harding. Each of the engines must also have on...

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Josephine Jones - 21 May 2013:

Cannot speak highly enough about this ... didn't want it to end!...

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