The storyline: It is evening and a mother reminds her small child to put his toy-trains away and to go to bed. In the child's dream, the locomotives come alive: It is the night of the world ...

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There’s a first-rate musical spectacular in town, two blocks from where “Starlight Express” is playing. It’s called “The Lion King,” and if you were thinking of going to “Starlight Express,” let me ...

The characters created by Andrew Lloyd Webber in "Starlight Express," for the most part, have about as much warmth and appeal as a railroad tie. The children's book "The Little Engine that Could," ...

Jeevan Braich has stepped back into the role of Rusty in Starlight Express with immediate effect, replacing an actor who is taking time off due to a shoulder injury. Braich stepped back from the role ...

It started life as a bedtime story for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s children – and became one of the world’s longest-running musicals. Now Starlight Express – described as “the fastest show on earth” – is in ...

Starlight Express, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre. This revamped 1984 musical about toy trains that come to life for a championship race wallows in ethnic and sexual stereotypes ...

Once upon a time, performers were considered accomplished if they could act, sing and dance, but after Andrew Lloyd Webber's second-longest running London musical Cats, the triple treat is simply not ...

Once upon a time, performers were considered accomplished if they could act, sing and dance, but after Andrew Lloyd Webber's second-longest running London musical Cats, the triple treat is simply not ...

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