“Watch out for the trains,” said Andrew Lloyd Webber, and with cautions look in every direction, he led me through a theatre as I had never seen one before. That was my private and exclusive ...

Starlight Express has announced a release date for its brand-new cast album. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, which first debuted 40 years ago, is about a child’s train set that comes to life and ...

Test your knowledge of Starlight Express with this collection of fascinating trivia! How well do you know the musical that takes place on roller skates, where trains race at lightning speed? Discover ...

3 Photos: New Look At JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR West End Starring Sam Ryder and More Schools across the UK are being invited to enter I Am the Starlight – a unique competition where a group from one ...

Instead, Webber shelved the idea of a train adaptation and went on to other projects until the 70s, when roller disco culture exploded, and the cursed idea of roller skating, racing, and singing train ...

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 its ...

I was at the 1984 West End press night of the original Starlight, as it happens, and vividly recall the technical glitches that beset the opening, as well as the general dismay expressed back then at ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Starlight Express" is back, four decades after making its West End debut. Critics may have "sneered" at the show in the past for "lacking sophistication", and admittedly Richard ...

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Seen by over 30 million people across the world, STARLIGHT EXPRESS is an electrifying experience for all ages. Feel the rush as an incredible cast whizzes by performing some of musical theatre’s most ...