0:13 Introduction 0:52 Overture 2:07 Entry of National Trains 4:20 Rolling Stock 7:23 Call me Rusty 9:13 Intro A Lotta Locomotion 9:54 A Lotta Locomotion 11:58 Freight 16:54 AC/DC 21:39 Pumping Iron 25:06 Coda of Freight 27:10 Hitching and Switching 27:51 Crazy 30:16 Pearl, you've been honoured 31:44 Make up my Heart 35:25 Race One 39:26 Poppa's Blues 42:03 After the Blues 46:32 Race Two 50:36 Laughing Stock 54:06 Starlight Express 58:41 The Rap 1:02:49 Pumping Iron (Reprise) 1:03:39 U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D. 1:06:33 Girls Rolling Stock 1:08:52 Dinah, you're honoured 1:09:16 Crazy (Reprise) 1:09:29 Race Three 1:11:56 Rusty, did it 1:14:31 Right Place, Right Time 1:17:49 Rusty alone 1:18:39 Starlight Sequence 1:23:21 Rusty and Dustin 1:24:23 Dinah's Disco 1:25:32 Hymn to Victory 1:27:56 Race Four 1:30:54 One Rock'n Roll too many 1:33:46 What happened to Pearl? 1:34:28 Next Time you fall in Love 1:38:37 Rusty, King of the Track 1:40:35 Light at the End of the Tunnel -:--:-- Next Time you fall in Love (Reprise) -:--:-- Starlight Express Megamix > We hope that all Titles are right, because we are from Germany, and don't know all the names. Have fun! :)
Today, it has been twenty-two years on the dot since the original London production of Starlight Express had it's final performance. Honestly, even though I wasn't even alive yet and I was still quite young the last time the show was even in the UK, I'm glad to say that I'll be one of the younger ones to see this show this year in the new revival.
Thank you to whoever recorded this and put it on RUclips!! … it’s been in my memory for the last 20 years with only the cd and programmes to remember it by. Brings back SO many childhood memories, just the sound of the screens coming down before the races makes me feel so excited like I’m 7 years old again 🤣 I was only 8 when it got taken off the west end and I remember I cried my eyes out when my parents told me. Despite only being 8 I saw it about 14 times and for my 13th birthday I went to Bochum to see it… I wish they’d bring it back to London 😭 the UK tour was so bad it was depressing
@@Baconlettucetomatoewish I could go but I'm not hopeful with my health and living in Merseyside would need an overnight and we have a dog and 15 year old we can't just leave. I hope they decide to keep it as a long run than currently advertised.
I really miss this version - I was a big fan of the german production and saw over 300 performances until they changed it completly 2018. What a pity that I couldn't see it in London back then, at least I enjoyed to see Gareth in all the characters he played when he was part of the Bochum cast.
@@DodgyBob-xx8zt I think the production was so impressive at the Appollo. The staging and setup was so different to any other show I have ever seen. The audio was loud and punchy which made the whole show drive. Its a shame that you can't buy a DVD of the show. Ive seen the traveling version a couple of times, it was good but not as impressive as the London version.
@@pixusphotographic Couldn't agree more my friend! I have the CD but a DVD would have been great! I was exceptionally lucky to see it about 30 - 35 times live, both the first "edition" and then the later edition with new songs, and including the very last performance. I'm a coach driver, and parking is ok at Victoria in the evening so I was able to park easily and go in!! The problem with the touring show, we saw it at Oxford, was the actual races were videos and not live, which of course was understandable as they were a temporary show so couldn't get the racetrack set up on a permanent basis, but seeing the races live, was so exciting! I now believe it is still showing in Germany (Bochum) and if it is, and it continues after the CV19 pandemic is clear, my wife and I are going to visit it again!! Take care and keep well.
Just found this.So many fantastic memories that I recall (and a lot that I don't!!!) Peter Van Hook played drums for the 1st 18 months then I took over for the whole of the rest of the run. Probably the most enjoyable 16 1/2 years of my life. What an adventure! Tom Nichol
Saw it when at school camp in London 1986 - First dinner at Tony Roma’s in St. Martins Lane then Starlight Express at Apollo Victoria … fashinated by the moving bridge … show was marvelous and lightyears ahed of todays travelling versions
I recognize that menu in the beginning. I had that same DVD-writer/tape player in 2001. This was copied off of VHS onto DVD and then ripped from there to a computer.
Have no idea how a female greaseball is going to work but nothing is stopping me from going to see this show again. It was my adhd / autistic everything and still is to this day 40 years later
@@disneydanny2 apart from a re-paint of the tracks and new lighting there was nothing new added to the set apart from the big fibre optic "star" for the starlight sequence the set remained the same as it always had been previously
@@queenmedesa well when CB was first removed from this version of the show, they had Dustin sing that one for a while before ditching it all together along with CB’s Wide Smile High Style, which really can’t be sung by anyone else. The thing with CB is that he’s the one who causes most of the problems by manipulating Rusty, Greaseball, and Electra. Without him, the plot has to move forward via happenstance, which really isn’t that much fun. Plus, a freight train without a caboose just feels incomplete.
I saw an ad to audition for the German cast in Bochum in 2000, I wish I'd audition. I speak German and figure skating and roller skating is very similiar
Since Starlight Express in London at the Apollo Victoria Theatre went under a heavy revision in November 1992, Didn't the script remain the same until closing night without any more revisions?
Umm, where is Ashley's verse in Lotta Locomotion, did I miss it? And Belle? And CB??? And Pearl/Rusty's Only You? Yeah, I think I'll stick to the soundtrack of the original and best but thanks for posting anyway.
OMG. I sung in the vocal booth for the last 8 years, and the first thing I heard when it started was my voice. What a flashback!
that's awesome!
0:13 Introduction
0:52 Overture
2:07 Entry of National Trains
4:20 Rolling Stock
7:23 Call me Rusty
9:13 Intro A Lotta Locomotion
9:54 A Lotta Locomotion
11:58 Freight
16:54 AC/DC
21:39 Pumping Iron
25:06 Coda of Freight
27:10 Hitching and Switching
27:51 Crazy
30:16 Pearl, you've been honoured
31:44 Make up my Heart
35:25 Race One
39:26 Poppa's Blues
42:03 After the Blues
46:32 Race Two
50:36 Laughing Stock
54:06 Starlight Express
58:41 The Rap
1:02:49 Pumping Iron (Reprise)
1:03:39 U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.
1:06:33 Girls Rolling Stock
1:08:52 Dinah, you're honoured
1:09:16 Crazy (Reprise)
1:09:29 Race Three
1:11:56 Rusty, did it
1:14:31 Right Place, Right Time
1:17:49 Rusty alone
1:18:39 Starlight Sequence
1:23:21 Rusty and Dustin
1:24:23 Dinah's Disco
1:25:32 Hymn to Victory
1:27:56 Race Four
1:30:54 One Rock'n Roll too many
1:33:46 What happened to Pearl?
1:34:28 Next Time you fall in Love
1:38:37 Rusty, King of the Track
1:40:35 Light at the End of the Tunnel
-:--:-- Next Time you fall in Love (Reprise)
-:--:-- Starlight Express Megamix
> We hope that all Titles are right, because we are from Germany, and don't know all the names. Have fun! :)
50:49 The "awwwww" the audience does when Dustin thinks it's his fault Poppa broke down is adorable
Today, it has been twenty-two years on the dot since the original London production of Starlight Express had it's final performance. Honestly, even though I wasn't even alive yet and I was still quite young the last time the show was even in the UK, I'm glad to say that I'll be one of the younger ones to see this show this year in the new revival.
Thank you to whoever recorded this and put it on RUclips!! … it’s been in my memory for the last 20 years with only the cd and programmes to remember it by. Brings back SO many childhood memories, just the sound of the screens coming down before the races makes me feel so excited like I’m 7 years old again 🤣 I was only 8 when it got taken off the west end and I remember I cried my eyes out when my parents told me. Despite only being 8 I saw it about 14 times and for my 13th birthday I went to Bochum to see it… I wish they’d bring it back to London 😭 the UK tour was so bad it was depressing
Your wish has just come true!
Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre from the 8th of June...
@@starkers1997 I knowwww!!! Heard the news this morning 😱 best news ever!!!!
@@starkers1997 guess who got opening night tickets!!! 😭🥳
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!@@Baconlettucetomatoe
@@Baconlettucetomatoewish I could go but I'm not hopeful with my health and living in Merseyside would need an overnight and we have a dog and 15 year old we can't just leave. I hope they decide to keep it as a long run than currently advertised.
This is when Starlight was REALLY GOOD! Loved this cast/production!
and... songs x
@@GarethBretherton Apart from the one missing character, this production was everything... and this cast were gorgeous! It was something magical.
@@BellePullman I'm counting 2 missing characters. We dont want to forget Belle, huh? ^^
I really miss this version - I was a big fan of the german production and saw over 300 performances until they changed it completly 2018. What a pity that I couldn't see it in London back then, at least I enjoyed to see Gareth in all the characters he played when he was part of the Bochum cast.
@@mariosbrother I agree, they have ruined the Bochum version with the new characters and that dreadful mega mix at the end.
Please, bring Starlight Express back home to London
Unfortunately it would have to be in a different theatre because wicked now performs at the Apollo Victoria
Wicked is on its way out. I saw it at Christmas and the theatre was empty and the performance was so tired
@@Charlotte-ci4is Maybe they could make a new stadium, similar to the one in Bochum. it would bring more job opportunities as well :)
It’s returning to London. June 8th 2024.
Do you think it's permanent run or just the short advertised one so far?
I was there for this . Saw this show over 200 times loved it sooo sad it closed 😢
It's coming home next summer
I know but I don't think it will be like we remember
They've said their will be changes.
I saw this show about 25 times while at the Apollo. Thanks for sharing
me too!! would LOVE it if it were to be re-invented again!!
@@DodgyBob-xx8zt I think the production was so impressive at the Appollo. The staging and setup was so different to any other show I have ever seen. The audio was loud and punchy which made the whole show drive. Its a shame that you can't buy a DVD of the show. Ive seen the traveling version a couple of times, it was good but not as impressive as the London version.
@@pixusphotographic Couldn't agree more my friend! I have the CD but a DVD would have been great! I was exceptionally lucky to see it about 30 - 35 times live, both the first "edition" and then the later edition with new songs, and including the very last performance. I'm a coach driver, and parking is ok at Victoria in the evening so I was able to park easily and go in!! The problem with the touring show, we saw it at Oxford, was the actual races were videos and not live, which of course was understandable as they were a temporary show so couldn't get the racetrack set up on a permanent basis, but seeing the races live, was so exciting!
I now believe it is still showing in Germany (Bochum) and if it is, and it continues after the CV19 pandemic is clear, my wife and I are going to visit it again!!
Take care and keep well.
Just found this.So many fantastic memories that I recall (and a lot that I don't!!!) Peter Van Hook played drums for the 1st 18 months then I took over for the whole of the rest of the run. Probably the most enjoyable 16 1/2 years of my life. What an adventure! Tom Nichol
I always love the drumming. I love playing and listening to them. You're amazing.
Saw it when at school camp in London 1986 - First dinner at Tony Roma’s in St. Martins Lane then Starlight Express at Apollo Victoria … fashinated by the moving bridge … show was marvelous and lightyears ahed of todays travelling versions
I recognize that menu in the beginning. I had that same DVD-writer/tape player in 2001. This was copied off of VHS onto DVD and then ripped from there to a computer.
Omg this was my childhood. Thank you for uploading.
Have no idea how a female greaseball is going to work but nothing is stopping me from going to see this show again. It was my adhd / autistic everything and still is to this day 40 years later
The original and best set for STEX. Ok, Bochum is an awesome set, too!
so the set remain unchanged when it go revamped in '92?
The set largely remained unchanged. But the music did go through quote a lot of changes as did the blocking.
@@disneydanny2 apart from a re-paint of the tracks and new lighting there was nothing new added to the set apart from the big fibre optic "star" for the starlight sequence the set remained the same as it always had been previously
I was there. I want them to do the show again in London
They are. Next year.
Good performance, but it just ain’t the same without CB!
Shame they didn’t bring him back for the final show....
They removed There's Me , and that's one of my favourite songs
@@queenmedesa well when CB was first removed from this version of the show, they had Dustin sing that one for a while before ditching it all together along with CB’s Wide Smile High Style, which really can’t be sung by anyone else.
The thing with CB is that he’s the one who causes most of the problems by manipulating Rusty, Greaseball, and Electra. Without him, the plot has to move forward via happenstance, which really isn’t that much fun.
Plus, a freight train without a caboose just feels incomplete.
There is also hints of Caboose's songs. The freight sing to the tune of there's me, and Greaseball's gang sing a song reminiscent of wide smile
@@Thetrainbloke true, but it’s not the same without him.
Seriously? What was ALW and his crew thinking when they got rid of him?
@@bladeobrian2144 I think it could be because Cabooses were being phased out by those flashing red lights on freight trucks
Jo Gibb as Pearl 😍
love JoGibb, she was awesomme in Chitty also
I saw an ad to audition for the German cast in Bochum in 2000, I wish I'd audition. I speak German and figure skating and roller skating is very similiar
My shock when it git announced my current teacher at college was conducting this performance
This fulfills a childhood dream, thank you.
I miss "Aggregates are really great" and 'CB'
It was 2002. Not 2001. I was there :)
I hope you weren't screaming at every scene too
Upload the higher definition 1080p of Starlight Express full musical, please?
so why did they cut C.B.?
When did they drop Whistle at Me? I'm sure it was in the version of the "New" Starlight I saw at AV in the late 90s.
Fantastic Cast 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Since Starlight Express in London at the Apollo Victoria Theatre went under a heavy revision in November 1992, Didn't the script remain the same until closing night without any more revisions?
Umm, where is Ashley's verse in Lotta Locomotion, did I miss it? And Belle? And CB??? And Pearl/Rusty's Only You? Yeah, I think I'll stick to the soundtrack of the original and best but thanks for posting anyway.
Yeah they wrote CB out of this version of the show, which boggles my mind because it's not like it had a lot of plot to begin with :D
Why would they cut out their main villain? Makes absolutely no sense.
Only You is my favourite song and they cut it .
Poppa having a hard time singing this show!! Ouch
17:00 what we're all here for
Thank you 🙏
Light 💡 at the end of the tunnel starts at 1:40:45.
I wanna be a cast member.
Who is the cast in this production?
Ah, back before they ruined it with all the awful rewrites 😭 Miss this so much 😭
I went to see this the day before it closed on the 11 Jan 2001
so many changes for the worst
One of the ladies/coaches nearly goes flying at 13:56
Lloyd Webber alwaysruins his shows
All that stupid screaming gets on my nerves
the original show was best
1:14:07
1:12:30
1:13:20