you can always find Todd Lester, just by looking for his split trick. I've seen him do it as Flat-Top, Caboose (the one I think is the most iconic), and now as a gang member!
Thankyou so much for uploading this! I've so been wanting to see Robert Torti in action as Greaseball, and this completely made my day. I can't believe they still did all the stunts in the choreography for this performance - somewhere they wouldn't have been used to performing, and not in the controlled environment of the theatre. I am blown away. Wow!
Thanks for posting this. I remember seeing this in November 1987. I recorded it on my VCR recorder. Lots of memories from then watching this thirty years ago.
@@PapaLobo94it’s been on for a while now and it’s terrible everything that made the original show the amazing spectacle it was is gone. The plot and characters have been changed drastically and not completely for the worst to be fair but the costumes look like nightmare transformers and not good. The set is very small and at times feels cramped and just not very like the original making the races seem strange. The cast however are all incredible and mostly new talent in their first show I’ve seen it twice and they all have definitely grown in confidence but it still feels a shell of what it should be. The staging is at times interesting and has a few moments of surprise but not enough. I really miss the different track levels but with this venue it really isn’t possible to do I am glad though that a new generation has the opportunity to fall in love with it in their own way but it will never compare with the original.
@@KowawadaddyThank God I have no plans to see it anytime soon. I would pray that Broadway doesn’t think about making a revival of that production with all the unnecessary changes that they made
It’s the opening number, but usually broadway shows do their best songs on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade/Tony’s/TV appearances. But a lot of shows will do their opening number. Some I can think of off the top of my head are The Book of Mormon- Hello, The Addams Family Musical- When You’re An Addams The Lion King- The Circle Of Life Spring Awakening- Mama Who Bore Me Hamilton- Alexander Hamilton A lot of shows will choose their opening number as it typically has the whole cast in it to show off and there are usually no major spoilers that could give away too much of the plot of the show.
can you imagine flipping to this randomly on the tv with absolutely no context lol
you can always find Todd Lester, just by looking for his split trick. I've seen him do it as Flat-Top, Caboose (the one I think is the most iconic), and now as a gang member!
I'm so glad to find out this really was broadcast on television and it was not some fever dream I had in the 80s.
Dude has a sick mullet
I saw Starlight Express on Broadway in the summer of 1987. What a great memory!
Thankyou so much for uploading this! I've so been wanting to see Robert Torti in action as Greaseball, and this completely made my day. I can't believe they still did all the stunts in the choreography for this performance - somewhere they wouldn't have been used to performing, and not in the controlled environment of the theatre. I am blown away. Wow!
Apparently this theater's environment was anything but controlled! So I understand completely how they could be performing elsewhere so easily.
In this song, the Roland D-50 internal patch “Horn Section” is/was heard.
Im glad someone understands
I love this comment
You got to love the 80s!
Thanks for posting this. I remember seeing this in November 1987. I recorded it on my VCR recorder. Lots of memories from then watching this thirty years ago.
Please share your recorded video here in RUclips ✨✨ would be amazing 💙✨✨✨
God bless you, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, for creating this oddball masterpiece of a musical, even if it didn’t last very long on Broadway
@@starbrown8912I heard it’s being revived on the West End. That true?
@@PapaLobo94it’s been on for a while now and it’s terrible everything that made the original show the amazing spectacle it was is gone. The plot and characters have been changed drastically and not completely for the worst to be fair but the costumes look like nightmare transformers and not good. The set is very small and at times feels cramped and just not very like the original making the races seem strange. The cast however are all incredible and mostly new talent in their first show I’ve seen it twice and they all have definitely grown in confidence but it still feels a shell of what it should be. The staging is at times interesting and has a few moments of surprise but not enough. I really miss the different track levels but with this venue it really isn’t possible to do I am glad though that a new generation has the opportunity to fall in love with it in their own way but it will never compare with the original.
@@KowawadaddyThank God I have no plans to see it anytime soon. I would pray that Broadway doesn’t think about making a revival of that production with all the unnecessary changes that they made
@@PapaLobo94Stick to the one in Germany, it’s the closest to the original
Cocaine's a helluva drug
Out of all of the songs, why this one?
You'd think they'd do Pumping Iron or something
@@Xfactories Or even Starlight Express, maybe the Rap?
My thinking is because it's the opening song
It’s the opening number, but usually broadway shows do their best songs on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade/Tony’s/TV appearances.
But a lot of shows will do their opening number. Some I can think of off the top of my head are
The Book of Mormon- Hello,
The Addams Family Musical- When You’re An Addams
The Lion King- The Circle Of Life
Spring Awakening- Mama Who Bore Me
Hamilton- Alexander Hamilton
A lot of shows will choose their opening number as it typically has the whole cast in it to show off and there are usually no major spoilers that could give away too much of the plot of the show.
@@RazorRevengeHairspray-You Can’t Stop the Beat, and THAT’S THE FINALE!