Starlight Express London Teaser | Starlight Express

Get your skates on. Get ready to roll. Starlight Express is now open in London! ✨🛼
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As a child’s train set magically comes to life and the engines race to become the fastest in the world, Rusty the steam train has little hope of winning until he is inspired by the legend of the ‘Starlight Express’. Seen around the world by over 20 million people, STARLIGHT EXPRESS is an electrifying experience for all ages.

[@TheGrumpyDutchie]

*Suffers in American because I long to see this*

[@Ailrent]

I'm flying from WA to see it 😭😭 my wallet is empty

[@victorhernandez8723]

Happy 40th anniversary to Starlight Express!

[@abbymiller2403]

I’m obsessed

[@aleksarlett213]

IM LOSING MY MIND !!! I’ve missed this show so much!! Oh my GOD 😍🤩✨💖💖💖

[@sweetheart1991]

I love Starlight Express 🌟🚂

[@red_golden14]

I’m going to see this next week! So excited!!✨✨

[@JoeyMBrooklyn]

We waited 2 years for this?

[@danteorfei4815]

What's with all the "club" music influence in almost every single ad???
This show in its 84-87 (pre-broadway) incarnation was UNDESCRIBABLY AMAZING.
I know cuz i saw it age 5 in w
1986 when it was LOUD, DARK, KINDA SCARY, INTENSE & true the message it conveyed (at the time) and Rusty essentially embraces in that original version of the narrative:
Leave the BS expectations, conjecture & ignorant approval ratings of everyone on the siding!
You ultimately choose whether to persevere or to give up!
When you let bullies, users, posers, rivals and/or even the "mosr amazingly beautiful" girl (or guy) influence your potential to succeed, you're on a one way track to a disappointing dead end!
Thats s lesson i learned way back then and have taken with me for 38 years snd have applied a multitude of times in those decades.
So i kinda struggle to understand ehy someone hugh enough up on the totem pole serms to dead set on some quest to continually try to change the show in attempt to impress everybody or whatever is hip at the time.
That's the exact opposite message the kid scared shitless coz weird EMD F3 diesel creatures were rscing around him snd might steal him away!
I loved that show but it also made me slightly uncomfortable just likr neverending Story snd Tron...
Or being dnuck onto Space Mountain at 4.5 years old (ehich i begged my mom to do).
But maybe thats ehy it's so awesome. Reward doesn't come without risk. You wanna succeed, prepared to deal eith the uncomfortable. Rusty did!
Making everything sound trendy, poppy and upbeat is placating to the fear of non-acceptance. And just as Rusty learns thr only person ee need acceptance from is ourselves!

[@luw2076]

That’s a really good take, but maybe also consider that you do need an element of appeal to modern audiences to keep the show going. I love the original and in no way am I saying you’re wrong, but modern updates aren’t necessarily a bad thing. Many things have moved on since the 80s so why not keep the show advancing to bring this brilliant experience to a younger generation. Spectacle has always been an integral part of the show, and that looks different now to how it did in the 80s, with more technology and audiences with different life experiences and expectations, and the changes do keep it relevant. Let’s face it, a lot of shows have gone to their grave because they haven’t been updated in line with society. Also, they have faced heavy criticism in some regards by the og starlight fans, and have not given up on the pursuit of bringing in a new generation of theatre goers. Unfortunately the reality of it is to keep a show going they must generate income, and to do that they have got to appeal to a modern audience and keep somewhat on trend to be able to sell tickets. The approval of people is really important in this endeavour. I have yet to go but from what I’ve heard it is still very intense and equally as amazing as it has been before, and if anything the club music vibe gives it more of an edge.

[@danteorfei4815]

@@luw2076 well here's the thing... I most definitely want to point out that I have a whole lot of respect and gratitude that,:
#1 ) you are not immediately trying to tell me that I'm some out of date, intellectually challenged, person perplexed by progressive thought!
#2) you are one of a very few people out there who have actually listened (or read) my reactions and stopped to think about what I'm trying to convey, rather than critiquing the most rudimentary assessments of my statements are clearly interpreted as meaning

[@danteorfei4815]

I agree that sometimes a little contemporary contextualization can be helpful to pieces of artwork that are not exactly spring chickens anymore.
However, with our going into specifics (,,that are essentially superfluous because they apply moreso to me than the work we are discussing, I will be quick to disclose that my "expertise,/persistent passion" lies much further into the realm of live performance of progressively perplexing pleasurement of music , rather than that of traditional theatrical performance.
Essentially, I will never claim proficiency in attempting to critique many musical endeavors.
But as far as stating the recent "dance club, electronic drum. oversaturation of sings that needed little to no improvement over 3:+ decades, is just short of an incredibly weak job of the musical directors /!young production musical directors which don't seem to realize the amount of failure that might manifest upon the tidal wave of musical score at hat is more in touch with a the electronic musical scenes of 20 +years ago

[@ShadrakJohn]

I can’t afford a flight ✈️ to London 😢😔☹️😞😕🙁😥😪😿🙎🙎‍♀️🙎‍♂️🫤😮‍💨

[@bp19870]

Will it be as good as Peter Griffin’s version? 😂