The fact that Hydra’s name is on his back shows that no one can tell who is who on the freight trucks

@robwarner9371

7 күн бұрын

There are several who have their names on their costumes - even Rusty! It reminds me of those political cartoonists who have to write the name of the politicians on the characters, mainly because they can’t draw the people to a good enough likeness. Same here, really.

@danteorfei4815

6 күн бұрын

@@robwarner9371there are SOME positive elements with some of these costumes, but not enough to make up for the negative ones!!! It would appear that the characters need their printed on them because there really isn't much about the majority of them that speak for themselves in terms of helping audience members (without literally spelling it out) identify either the character or the piece of railroad equipment they represent! 🤦 It's kinda like the equivalent of staging CATS (which I kinda can't stand) with the cast dressed in various types of professional sports style jerseys adorned with the character's names on the back, but more moronic! You got Mistoffoles looking like Michael Jordan in a red and black basket getup with the #23, Macavity like Shady Tom Brady in Patriots-esque NFL attire, Skimbleshanks rocking a Wayne Gretzky LA Kings themed Hockey sweater, etc.. like WTF are kids that wanna see characters that look like felines gonna think? I almost thought that the first video I saw was some kinda prank or gag teaser

I cant get with this new starlight, it’s just soulless, if it were up to me id make my own

@kaml1369

5 күн бұрын

It was a total shit show!!

I am from Germany, Bochum, and I am shocked. What's that? Starlight Express? No. Definitly not. Andrew L. Webber killed the Starlight Express in a theatre...live and in front of everybody. Shame on you, Mr. Webber! I'm seriously so incredibly sorry that after so many years of waiting for a comeback, you're seeing such an absolutely bad and embarrassing production in London. England doesn't deserve that. Germany feels for you. 🥀🪦🔚 🎼🚂🎶

@TheMouseFan

14 күн бұрын

Starlight Express was already killed a few years ago in Germany with all those horrible changes. So next step was killing the show in London too.

@rondscha1203

13 күн бұрын

@@TheMouseFan tbh i don't think it's that bad. I've seen all versions between 2010 and now and liked the new version too. Obviously not as good as the older ones but still

@TheMouseFan

11 күн бұрын

@@rondscha1203 I saw all the versions since 1989 and they were all better than the new one.

@rondscha1203

11 күн бұрын

@@TheMouseFan that may be but for me it’s not as horrible as some paint it to be. But I guess that’s on personal preferences

@kaml1369

11 күн бұрын

You’re right my friend; I went to see it today, it was effing terrible. ALW opted for wokery rather than quality. I’m so disappointed ALW as he’s very critical for choosing his singers as they’re representing his work. I can tell you the new Rusty and Pearl’s voices do not have range and lacking in power. Bochum version is miles better.

Why do the costumes look like space ship uniforms from an 80s sci-fi movie I am beyond confused by these design choices

@Simulacra719

22 күн бұрын

The costume designer just repurposed her designs from Six. No effort to make them relevant to Starlight at all…😏

@kanalzumkommentieren2169

22 күн бұрын

@@Simulacra719 wow

@Simulacra719

22 күн бұрын

@@kanalzumkommentieren2169 yup. And Electra’s costume is a rip off of Swiss Miss from the SpiderMan musical on Broadway…

@robwarner9371

19 күн бұрын

@@Simulacra719I also get the impression (spoiler alert) that the costume designer also made Sam Smith’s inflating costume. The costume “development” during AC/DC just made me laugh hysterically - it ruined the whole song, but was so funny. And Electra and components then had to wait for their costumes to deflate again before they could leave the stage 😂

@Simulacra719

19 күн бұрын

@@robwarner9371 their costumes inflate?! On purpose?! 😮

Electra feels so naked without the wig 😭

@danteorfei4815

6 күн бұрын

@@Frulas i actually could care less about the wig. It's the weird dungeons & dragons that looks absolutely nothing like a locomotive (or lead unit if we are speaking electric) that would have me really concerned that the costume designer may have done a little too much LSD at some point in time! "Yeah so that costume is creative but maybe what I was really thinking got slightly distorted by my subpar oral communication... We are going for a train theme (like choo-choos). I'm guessing you thought my mumbles sounded like "how to train your dragon" theme!

@Frulas

6 күн бұрын

@@danteorfei4815 I agree, also... I think he looks exactly the same as all the components!

@danteorfei4815

6 күн бұрын

@@Frulas well and that's the other problem! Don't even get me started on the freight cars that look like colorful ghostbusters! Last time I checked (like every time I do my laundry in a basement that somehow has accumulated a Lionel Train or Two or what some may define as a borderline addiction), log cars tend to look nothing like cylindrical tank cars, distinctive coal hoppers or paranormal exterminators Hey but now that I think about it Electra & co do kinda have an "Igor the Carpathian" feel to them! All I can say is that seeing the original as a five year old who loved trains back in 86, I wished I could have one of the steam or diesel helmets and I was surrounded by train people! If my parents brought me to this after telling me it was a show about trains, I would have prolly thought I was being punished for something i did wrong or that they had just told me a big lie to tease me or pull my leg and really brought me to the Jetsons Roller Derby Extravaganza (I liked the Flintstones but really didn't like the Jetsons FWiW)!

@Frulas

6 күн бұрын

@@danteorfei4815 You're right, they look like Ghostbusters 😂! I would literally sell my soul to see the original in 1986, and I would've also wished to have those helmets. Honestly, this is my least favorite version of the show, but at least they kept my favorite songs! (Except for No Comeback and There's Me, of course).

@danteorfei4815

6 күн бұрын

@@Frulas great minds think alike! However, you left out "right place, right time!" All 3 would be back in the lineup, if I had a say in it, as would the more aggressive musical tone that makes the original soundtrack tower above any other cast/production recordings. Here's a fun little experiment; Just listen to AC/DC from the 84 recording! It's essentially timeless! Then search KZread for the 2001 live performance of "everything in its right place" by Radiohead recorded at CANAL+ in France. I think you will essentially connect the dots I've just laid out. Am I insinuating one being influenced by the other? While that could be the case, I am not claiming that is the case. But rather, I'm trying to highlight that there are some remarkably similar and rather attention grabbing audio techniques between the two that rather effectively captivated the fans of both an extremely experimental and cutting edgelive act audience, as well as 1984 theate goers!

Meh - still not worried. Excited to see it next month

@lonelycrocodile

23 күн бұрын

I also wished to see it, maybe that'll improve my mood and thoughts about it 🥲

@robwarner9371

19 күн бұрын

It’s very entertaining. Disappointing for many reasons, but still a good night out. I went with a friend who’d never seen Starlight and they absolutely loved it. Just don’t have a lot to drink because you are absolutely not allowed out during the performance.

I’m looking forward to going regardless 🛼🛼🛼

Btw, I saw that they already updated some costumes. These were no big changes. Electra got a little more hair on their wig, and Hydra (I think) got more of these boxes on his arms.

@luw2076

Күн бұрын

The trousers for all of them (freight trains) changed and now there’s more ✨sparkle✨(and their things they carry - wood, coal, oil - on their trousers as well)

Went to see it this week and loved it, don’t believe the childish haters who want everything to be the same as 40 years ago. Also it is in previews and things change. It’s absolutely NOT a mess and must be so frustrating for creatives to see this kind of bs after all the work they put in.

I hope they still do the races like the original one

Thanks for including my comments under one of the megamixes WHY ARE THEY ON SCOOTERS

I actually found this quite funny there are some costumes I ain’t really a fan of tbh (electras compartments) and also electras mo hawk I know the Mohawk would has worked but i really do love a lot of the costumes tbh

Sorry aber greaseball bleibt für mich mit dem Kostüm ne kleine Wespe 🐝

@m.w.4863

14 күн бұрын

Wespe mit W oder L und b in der Mitte?

@emilyjustme7624

14 күн бұрын

@@m.w.4863 schon so wie ich es geschrieben habe… 🐝

I was skeptical but I loved it !!!

Love it

I'm sure it's not easy doing what they do. But this show doesn't seem like it would bring much money in. I like the costumes and the skating but it seems messy. A small stage with that many ppl doesn't make alot of sense to me. Idk tho, this is just my opinion

The costume designer and the musical director need to get the Lucasfilms "Kathleen Kennedy Treatment" IMMEDIATELY!!!! The set actually looks pretty cool. And from what I've heard, the plot has actually tilted back towards a synopsis that multiple age groups can dissect differently (IE it has more to offer mature viewers than the "all fluff/no complexity" 93 version... However, those costumes are (what I can only describe as) undoubtedly non copacetic! I don't want to say they are bad, because if there was a show about how the Time Lords hired the Jetsons to teach all the who's from whoville how to roller skate, they would prolly be fantastic! However, they just don't really make sense for Starlight Express because: #1) they don't really evoke or utilize connectable references to either the railroad equipment they are trying to represent or the idiosyncratic qualities of the character who wears them! For instance, the costume of Slick Oil doesn't really present an aesthetic to an Audience member (especially a child that likes trains) that can establish or distinguish her from the other freight cars as a tank car, a shady personality or even freight car (opposed to a coach or a locomotive)! In fact she just appears to be the yellow & black, punk rock Ghostbuster on roller skates who has happened to lose the gun portion of her proton pack! There is absolutely NOTHING about Electra and Greaseball that conveys to me (a complete train nut since infancy that can prolly pick up on the most subtle references normal ppl would miss) that makes me think either diesel or electric locomotives!!! And before a whole bunch of ppl wanna take the whole "human beings don't really look like trains" approach, I'll quickly say, " yep... That is 100% true, but the original team pulled it off in 1984 and the extremely low budget college production I saw in 2014 pulled it off in a completely different way and utilized a roller derby motif adorned with railroad related details and insignia to make up for expensive costuming shouting various railroad prototypes to the viewer! I was kinda hoping for this "revival" would take a similarly, creative "scaled down" costuming approach (limiting the really detailed/intricate costume aesthetics for the races - IE the quasi gladiatorial train transformative racing gear! I honestly think the costume designer should be incredibly embarrassed for failing to realize that the employment of racing helmets is the single costume tradition (that actually changes) between the various "official professional" productions of the show! Even the damn ice-capade version employed them and put their own spin on them! However, from what both your video brilliantly points out and the four extremely disappointing minutes of some bloke's video of the least creative encore of all time (I HATE the megamix BTW - if it were up to me, the only thing to be performed after LatEoT, would be material from previous iterations of the show that didn't appear in the first two acts {engine of love/whistle at me/etc - I didn't mention there's me or no comeback coz they would actually be back in the show}), the costume designer has an extremely limited knowledge when it comes to trains, the show itself and/or the show's history. They obviously also neglected to do any homework or research the aforementioned! I feel Mr. Luke "I don't want to be offensive" Sheppard/Shepherd/Whatever should be sticking his his skate into his mouth because he just gave the idiot costume designer a green light to present Dinah with here and southern draw as a tacky Raggedy Ann character, Electra as a non-binary dragon like character reminiscent of the witch from Disney's Sleeping Beauty. Pearl gets portrayed as a train car version of the hussy leg lamp from Xmas Story and the freight cars all look identical and can only be differentiated from one another by their name tags (sounds like someone might have an issue with a lack of identity between blue collar workers!)... 🤷🤨🙄

Wow. How absolutely uninformative. I'll send you a bill for my time.

@lonelycrocodile

7 күн бұрын

Sorry, I've never said I'd wanted to be informative 🥲 (pls watch something else next time)

@tvredone1460

5 күн бұрын

It's also utter BO*!&CKS to say this show is a mess when they have clearly judged is solely on a very poor recording of the megamix which is a couple of minutes out of the whole show. This show does have soul and has so many positives including an amzingly talented cast who sing effortlessley and in tune whilst skating (including up large ramps). Shock horror...it's not the original version! in other news...it never pretends to be! it's new but respectful to the past and very recognisable as still being Starlight Express. IF you go expecting a carbon copy of what has gone before then you will be disappointed, if you go open minded and ready to embrace a new era then you will have a wild time. Some songs have been changed up, some new ones added (I AM ME and I DO) both work extremely well and HYDRA (A great character BTW) has his own little infectious ear worm of a song. The bridge that everyone seems to miss and bang on about is not there, not a game changer for me, the auditorium IS impressive, the effects are great, the sound wonderful, skating is certainly not slow and yes costumes are different, not bad, not worse...different BUT they work, There is a plot, as much of a one that a musical needs. This version blows the 90's tour version out of the water. So I say ignore the crap that is being written Jon, haters will hate and a lot of what is being said is based on the megamix videos online and as they are all recorded on phones so you don't get the real fun and feeling of a high that it actually leaves you on when you are there. For everyone else, if you really think you can't cope with Electra not having a Mohawk, if you are having panic attacks at the thought of a different skirt for Pearl, if your senses will be confused actually seeing Control rather than just hearing them and your brains cannot compute a gender change for Greaseball (A fabulous re-imagining of the character BTW) then maybe just stick to your memories of days gone by. Also.... in other shock news POPPA is now MOMMA...this also works well, U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D is not done in a country style anymore but the song is present, the stage revolves, there is fire, there are lazers and other special effect, there are projections, there are large screens. I think I have covered everything and will finish by saying...this is just my opinion but I have seen the show rather than just the megamix. Wow, I got more defensive of the show there than I thought I would! guess i'd rather read/see a more factual review than an attack on it,

@lonelycrocodile

5 күн бұрын

@@tvredone1460I, of course, don't want to hate it. This video is just entertainment! But I accept every opinion on it, as long as it's not pure harassment against it or anyone.