Starlight Express

Starlight Express
Logo for the Japan/Australia tour, 1987–1988
MusicAndrew Lloyd Webber
LyricsRichard Stilgoe
Productions1984 West End
1987 Broadway
1987 Australasia Tour
1988 Bochum
1989 US Tour
1990 Second Japan Condition
1993 Las Vegas
1997 Mexico City
1997 US on ice tour
2003 US Tour
2004 UK Tour
2009 New Zealand Tour
2012 UK Tour
2013 Asia Tour
2013 Johannesburg
2013 Tuacahn
2017 UK Workshop
2024 Wembley
2027 International Tour

Starlight Express is a 1984 musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, that races in a championship against modern locomotives of diesel and electric engines in the hope of impressing a first-class/observation car, Pearl. The actors perform on roller skates.

Running for 7,409 performances in London, Starlight Express is the tenth-longest-running West End show. It is the most successful musical in Germany, where it has been performed in a purpose-built theatre since 1988, holding the Guinness World Record for most visitors to a musical in a single theatre.

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