What a treat this was! Both seeing the Australian tour in Melbourne, and getting to relive the memories through this video.
@fp30eАй бұрын
This looks so much better than the 2024 version in London in an old TV studio. The lighting is more atmospheric and theatrical, not TV like as it appears on the YT videos currently out there.
@onemanfranАй бұрын
The troubador videos are terrible - in person it's really gorgeous. Of course the set isn't as big. If you want that, Bochum is always available. The UK has a huge premium on land and it's so ridiculously expensive to put on productions now. But I really thought the sound design and lighting design were spectacular in person.
@fp30eАй бұрын
@@onemanfran Hello Fran, I saw the original London West End Stage show, I think I saw it 4 times. It was brilliant at the London Victoria Apollo Theatre. Part of going to the theatre for me is the experience of being in a theatre, and not in an old TV studio. I wonder if a theatre was not available in the West End, otherwise, Andrew would have gone for a West End opening. I hate theatre in the round. Thank you for your excellent feedback and comment
@ducatiman1309Ай бұрын
I saw this over 20 yearsago , and it has stayed with me ever since !! - truly memorable !!! X
@EVITANDYАй бұрын
I have seen this show in the West End, more times than I care to count. certainly, it is the show I have seen more performances of. I work in theatre, and always knew people involved in the show, so I certainly will have seen this cast. Sadly, I can't make out who is performing here. Thank you for posting. Great memories
@robin101962Ай бұрын
Saw SE very early on with Stephanie Lawrence, Michael Staniforth, PP Arnold, Lon Satton etc. Absolutely breathtaking theatre, so to see this is amazing (although by 1988 it had already been re-worked). I sat with my sister in the front row of the circle - you could feel the hydraulics raising the track barriers. The touring versions just can't capture the excitement of the races (for obvious reasons) & you miss out on that awesome piece of machinery - the bridge.
@KC-zn4uzАй бұрын
I saw this cast too - awesome 🎉
@1306JoJoАй бұрын
Oh the new show pales in comparison to this....sadly, i miss the glory daya of Starlight
@maggiemorrissey4942 ай бұрын
Was this too early for Greg Ellis as Rusty?
@ngalexa73992 ай бұрын
I wish for an English captions.
@ngalexa73992 ай бұрын
Upload the higher definition 1080p of Starlight Express full musical, please?
@R07ANDG2 ай бұрын
The stage is so technologically advanced for 1989 it's so amazing!
@Frulas2 ай бұрын
56:34 "The Red Caboose is under your bed" 😭
@KarenB1234567893 ай бұрын
Amazing thank you for posting
@Simulacra7194 ай бұрын
Ah, back before they ruined it with all the awful rewrites 😭 Miss this so much 😭
@lucywebb4234 ай бұрын
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
@beachmom20014 ай бұрын
My late brother worked in wardrobe on this
@brandonlu92805 ай бұрын
It would be so nice to see the original run of 1984.
@Sam_on_YouTube5 ай бұрын
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.
@Pommes_0075 ай бұрын
5:15
@DanMarie965 ай бұрын
Was a lotta locomotion removed at some point?
@theproanimator84476 ай бұрын
What about one for the 1984 production
@beastofman776 ай бұрын
I was 13 when I saw this show.....random that it popped up in my recommendations
@watery_soap456 ай бұрын
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.
@deidreshand35316 ай бұрын
A DVD of the '84 version with Rusty Ray Shell, Pearl Stephanie Lawrence & Dinah Frances Ruffelle would be great!!! Please make one. The New Version would break my heart💔. Because I JUST PLAIN HATE IT!
@chriscox56198 ай бұрын
Poppa having a hard time singing this show!! Ouch
@cj-br9mq9 ай бұрын
My happy memories from my childhood
@edwardbrashear35759 ай бұрын
this is a great rcord of how the original show ran, its also a carbon copy of the Broadway version from 1987 which I had the pleasure to work for. loved watching this, lots of memories
@billwallboston9 ай бұрын
I saw this in London on my first trip to Europe in 1997.
@bronypony30919 ай бұрын
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?
@Thetrainbloke10 ай бұрын
50:49 The "awwwww" the audience does when Dustin thinks it's his fault Poppa broke down is adorable
@handakobayashi461511 ай бұрын
Un musical maravilloso,con una puesta en escena, por desgracia bastante infravalorada y si te vas fuera de su época la mayoria de gente la conoce de oidas como mucho. Necesita volver a aparecer en teatros.
@evied407loveC.b11 ай бұрын
So cute the Red caboose and Electra
@albertovazquezcea362111 ай бұрын
One of my favourite shows since a kiddo. Saw this in the West End back in the 90s. And i will be re-enjoying it in Germany in October ... 35 years and the longest running musical. ❤ Rumours say it might be returning to the West End. Oh i hope so ❤
@payrclt Жыл бұрын
The Starlight Sequence, just wow. Greg Ellis nails it
@thehipbip1678 Жыл бұрын
1:29
@evied407loveC.b Жыл бұрын
Poor Rusty 😢
@kathrynthomas6138 Жыл бұрын
My Greaseball was Jeff Shankley, my Pearl was Stephanie Lawrence, and my C.B. was Micheal Staniforth. This was a ground breaking musical like Time was
@mikekaraoke11 ай бұрын
First theatre show I saw was: Robin Hood and his Merry Men at in Kent at Orchard Theatre-was 14 months old and remember none of it lol However first one I do remember was-Snoopy the musical when I was nearly 3 + half at Duchess theatre. I remember moaning at the interval to my dad how hungry I was and then went to a Wimpy afterwards 😊 Then after that become a theatre buff, next shows I saw after that were Cats, then like you saw Starlight Express then Time! Altogether over the years I have seen Starlight Express 45 + times- 25 were in London, then others were from UK Tour like at: The National Bowl at Milton Keynes, and other tours around the world! Seen it 4 times in Germany at Starlight Express Theatre in Bochum, as you prob know been playing there since 1987 😀🚂🛼 As for Time saw it 3 times, once with Cliff Richard in 86, once with David Cassidy in 87, and once with David Ian in 1988, Such a shame it never did a tour or even a revival over the years 😔 After that would then see other shows at my local theatres in Kent like: Orchard Theatre, Churchill Theatre etc and saw plays/musicals like: Annie, Bugsy Malone, Noises Off, The 39 Steps etc...... Next shows in London I would see as a kid were, Barnum, Chess when I was 6 in Summer of 1987-so glad I got to see it with Elaine Paige-so gutted never got to see her on stage in Evita/Cats, + ABBAcadabra Have seen Chess a few times over the years with that last revival with Michael Ball in June of 2018, and then Les Miserables, Blood Brothers, + the longest running show in West End and also the world-Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap as you know 🙂 Including many, many more in 80's, 90's, 2000's, 2010's and now! Whereabouts in UK you from Kathryn, I'm in Kent as I said above, and still have all my tickets, programs/souvenir guides(some of them signed), and merch since the 80's! 😁
@lucydickinson9252Ай бұрын
RIP Micheal and Steph
@danskeninorge1467 Жыл бұрын
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
@alicemorrison1518 Жыл бұрын
Bless This Mess. I have wanted to see this show for so many years and now I finally can.
@alicemorrison1518 Жыл бұрын
This fulfills a childhood dream, thank you.
@lady-aries-wolfy Жыл бұрын
At 1:22:48 really got me cracking up. That’s how I feel all the time lol
@xenonglow4047 Жыл бұрын
The women are so much better at roller skating
@gingerquinn4263 Жыл бұрын
Where is Dinah you’re honoured
@chelliestone185 Жыл бұрын
I was there for this . Saw this show over 200 times loved it sooo sad it closed 😢
@starkers199710 ай бұрын
It's coming home next summer
@chelliestone1855 ай бұрын
I know but I don't think it will be like we remember
Hi, thank you for providing this. It would be great if full production of the show was released. I have looked for it, but have been unable to find it. I also think the song Next Time you fall in Love is great, but I am aware that it doesn't always feature in the show.
@simpleskull2002 Жыл бұрын
It's such a shame how many songs are either missing or were cut. It really just shows how far from the original script and score that the broadyway production had to go. Especially since the original songlist tells more of a clear story. This is truly a strong case of Broadway not always being the best place to watch musicals. The missing songs are as titled: rolling stock call me rusty a lotta locomotion AC/DC he whistled at me the rap no comeback
@artierace8664 Жыл бұрын
most of those are meant to be there but the start of the recording was lost
@cocoo299 Жыл бұрын
Engine of Love actually replaced Call Me Rusty in this production 🤓
@cocoo299 Жыл бұрын
and there was no rap in this one either 🤓
@simpleskull2002 Жыл бұрын
@@cocoo299 Do you not have something more positive and constructive to do with your time?
@finleyforevermore11 ай бұрын
Most of those songs except for Call Me Rusty, He Whistled at Me, The Rap, and No Comeback were included in the Broadway production. The first 15 minutes of the performance were lost sadly, but all those songs except the ones i pointed out are still in the show.
@cocoo299 Жыл бұрын
0:01 Pumping iron 3:34 Coda of Freight 7:45 Make up my heart 11:15 Heat 1 15:38 There's Me 18:46 Poppa's Blues 22:30 Belle the sleeping car 27:15 Starlight Express 28:40 Poppa's Mad 29:32 Heat 2 36:00 Laughing Stock 36:48 Starlight Express (Rusty solo) 42:47 Hymn for the silver dollar 46:28 U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D. 49:33 Rolling Stock (Reprise) 52:19 Red Caboose 57:58 Heat 3 1:00:04 Red Caboose (continued) 1:02:09 Right Place Right Time 1:08:29 I am the Starlight 1:12:58 He Whistled At Me (Reprise) 1:14:05 Race: The Final 1:20:13 One Rock n' Roll Too Many 1:22:58 Where's Rusty Gone? 1:23:48 Only He 1:26:10 Only You 1:28:38 S.O.R.R.Y. 1:29:23 Light At The End Of The Tunnel
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45:45 the vocal cracks cute 😂
Fantastic Cast 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
What a treat this was! Both seeing the Australian tour in Melbourne, and getting to relive the memories through this video.
This looks so much better than the 2024 version in London in an old TV studio. The lighting is more atmospheric and theatrical, not TV like as it appears on the YT videos currently out there.
The troubador videos are terrible - in person it's really gorgeous. Of course the set isn't as big. If you want that, Bochum is always available. The UK has a huge premium on land and it's so ridiculously expensive to put on productions now. But I really thought the sound design and lighting design were spectacular in person.
@@onemanfran Hello Fran, I saw the original London West End Stage show, I think I saw it 4 times. It was brilliant at the London Victoria Apollo Theatre. Part of going to the theatre for me is the experience of being in a theatre, and not in an old TV studio. I wonder if a theatre was not available in the West End, otherwise, Andrew would have gone for a West End opening. I hate theatre in the round. Thank you for your excellent feedback and comment
I saw this over 20 yearsago , and it has stayed with me ever since !! - truly memorable !!! X
I have seen this show in the West End, more times than I care to count. certainly, it is the show I have seen more performances of. I work in theatre, and always knew people involved in the show, so I certainly will have seen this cast. Sadly, I can't make out who is performing here. Thank you for posting. Great memories
Saw SE very early on with Stephanie Lawrence, Michael Staniforth, PP Arnold, Lon Satton etc. Absolutely breathtaking theatre, so to see this is amazing (although by 1988 it had already been re-worked). I sat with my sister in the front row of the circle - you could feel the hydraulics raising the track barriers. The touring versions just can't capture the excitement of the races (for obvious reasons) & you miss out on that awesome piece of machinery - the bridge.
I saw this cast too - awesome 🎉
Oh the new show pales in comparison to this....sadly, i miss the glory daya of Starlight
Was this too early for Greg Ellis as Rusty?
I wish for an English captions.
Upload the higher definition 1080p of Starlight Express full musical, please?
The stage is so technologically advanced for 1989 it's so amazing!
56:34 "The Red Caboose is under your bed" 😭
Amazing thank you for posting
Ah, back before they ruined it with all the awful rewrites 😭 Miss this so much 😭
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
My late brother worked in wardrobe on this
It would be so nice to see the original run of 1984.
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.
5:15
Was a lotta locomotion removed at some point?
What about one for the 1984 production
I was 13 when I saw this show.....random that it popped up in my recommendations
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.
A DVD of the '84 version with Rusty Ray Shell, Pearl Stephanie Lawrence & Dinah Frances Ruffelle would be great!!! Please make one. The New Version would break my heart💔. Because I JUST PLAIN HATE IT!
Poppa having a hard time singing this show!! Ouch
My happy memories from my childhood
this is a great rcord of how the original show ran, its also a carbon copy of the Broadway version from 1987 which I had the pleasure to work for. loved watching this, lots of memories
I saw this in London on my first trip to Europe in 1997.
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?
50:49 The "awwwww" the audience does when Dustin thinks it's his fault Poppa broke down is adorable
Un musical maravilloso,con una puesta en escena, por desgracia bastante infravalorada y si te vas fuera de su época la mayoria de gente la conoce de oidas como mucho. Necesita volver a aparecer en teatros.
So cute the Red caboose and Electra
One of my favourite shows since a kiddo. Saw this in the West End back in the 90s. And i will be re-enjoying it in Germany in October ... 35 years and the longest running musical. ❤ Rumours say it might be returning to the West End. Oh i hope so ❤
The Starlight Sequence, just wow. Greg Ellis nails it
1:29
Poor Rusty 😢
My Greaseball was Jeff Shankley, my Pearl was Stephanie Lawrence, and my C.B. was Micheal Staniforth. This was a ground breaking musical like Time was
First theatre show I saw was: Robin Hood and his Merry Men at in Kent at Orchard Theatre-was 14 months old and remember none of it lol However first one I do remember was-Snoopy the musical when I was nearly 3 + half at Duchess theatre. I remember moaning at the interval to my dad how hungry I was and then went to a Wimpy afterwards 😊 Then after that become a theatre buff, next shows I saw after that were Cats, then like you saw Starlight Express then Time! Altogether over the years I have seen Starlight Express 45 + times- 25 were in London, then others were from UK Tour like at: The National Bowl at Milton Keynes, and other tours around the world! Seen it 4 times in Germany at Starlight Express Theatre in Bochum, as you prob know been playing there since 1987 😀🚂🛼 As for Time saw it 3 times, once with Cliff Richard in 86, once with David Cassidy in 87, and once with David Ian in 1988, Such a shame it never did a tour or even a revival over the years 😔 After that would then see other shows at my local theatres in Kent like: Orchard Theatre, Churchill Theatre etc and saw plays/musicals like: Annie, Bugsy Malone, Noises Off, The 39 Steps etc...... Next shows in London I would see as a kid were, Barnum, Chess when I was 6 in Summer of 1987-so glad I got to see it with Elaine Paige-so gutted never got to see her on stage in Evita/Cats, + ABBAcadabra Have seen Chess a few times over the years with that last revival with Michael Ball in June of 2018, and then Les Miserables, Blood Brothers, + the longest running show in West End and also the world-Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap as you know 🙂 Including many, many more in 80's, 90's, 2000's, 2010's and now! Whereabouts in UK you from Kathryn, I'm in Kent as I said above, and still have all my tickets, programs/souvenir guides(some of them signed), and merch since the 80's! 😁
RIP Micheal and Steph
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
Bless This Mess. I have wanted to see this show for so many years and now I finally can.
This fulfills a childhood dream, thank you.
At 1:22:48 really got me cracking up. That’s how I feel all the time lol
The women are so much better at roller skating
Where is Dinah you’re honoured
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.
OMG, 我就是當年在倫敦看這一場的STARLIGHT EXPRESS!從挪威來的客戶的招待，讓我改變了一生！原來音樂劇也可以用這樣方式演出！不過我此後還是選擇 安德魯·洛伊·韋伯，勞埃德-韋伯男爵（Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber）
Who is the cast in this production?
Hi, thank you for providing this. It would be great if full production of the show was released. I have looked for it, but have been unable to find it. I also think the song Next Time you fall in Love is great, but I am aware that it doesn't always feature in the show.
It's such a shame how many songs are either missing or were cut. It really just shows how far from the original script and score that the broadyway production had to go. Especially since the original songlist tells more of a clear story. This is truly a strong case of Broadway not always being the best place to watch musicals. The missing songs are as titled: rolling stock call me rusty a lotta locomotion AC/DC he whistled at me the rap no comeback
most of those are meant to be there but the start of the recording was lost
Engine of Love actually replaced Call Me Rusty in this production 🤓
and there was no rap in this one either 🤓
@@cocoo299 Do you not have something more positive and constructive to do with your time?
Most of those songs except for Call Me Rusty, He Whistled at Me, The Rap, and No Comeback were included in the Broadway production. The first 15 minutes of the performance were lost sadly, but all those songs except the ones i pointed out are still in the show.
0:01 Pumping iron 3:34 Coda of Freight 7:45 Make up my heart 11:15 Heat 1 15:38 There's Me 18:46 Poppa's Blues 22:30 Belle the sleeping car 27:15 Starlight Express 28:40 Poppa's Mad 29:32 Heat 2 36:00 Laughing Stock 36:48 Starlight Express (Rusty solo) 42:47 Hymn for the silver dollar 46:28 U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D. 49:33 Rolling Stock (Reprise) 52:19 Red Caboose 57:58 Heat 3 1:00:04 Red Caboose (continued) 1:02:09 Right Place Right Time 1:08:29 I am the Starlight 1:12:58 He Whistled At Me (Reprise) 1:14:05 Race: The Final 1:20:13 One Rock n' Roll Too Many 1:22:58 Where's Rusty Gone? 1:23:48 Only He 1:26:10 Only You 1:28:38 S.O.R.R.Y. 1:29:23 Light At The End Of The Tunnel