No film exists for the third race , as the film crew ran out of time [2]. This problem was solved onstage by having a fight break out before the race begins, causing it to be cancelled. The final race shows Rusty win the race pushing Pearl, and pulling Dustin, unlike in other productions where Pearl is left halfway through the race course and Rusty leaves the victory celebrations to find her. This production also introduced an updated Rap , attempting to sound more contemporary than the distinctly early s flavour of the previous version.
When the tour started, Caboose a shortened version of " Wide Smile " with Greaseball and his gang. The number would later be cut to the dialogue-only version of the scene. Yazbek also rewrote other musical underscoring and recitative passages, such as the original characters' introductions in "Freight" or " Dinah's Disco ", changing the music and lyrics but keeping the same spirit and context.
Some of these lyric changes were to clarify story telling; others appear to be change for change's sake. Some changes were made for colloquial American English - for example, "Poppa, you're mad!
The pre-recorded races led to some interesting plot points: the third race was not filmed, so the Uphill Final was cancelled before it even began. This was then initially followed with Pearl, alone, singing "Only He", without a plot device to explain how she is alone at the start of the song. The tour originally had used a version of " Only He " that was a blend of the original version and the duet " Only You ".
One major reason the original version of "Only He" was not used in later productions is that is it very vocally demanding; many actresses could not do the song justice immediately after racing. However, with the pre-recorded races, the actresses playing Pearl on tour could devote more energy to the big solo. Starlight Express played two previews before its opening night in Biloxi. The actor playing Poppa Jason was removed from the production after failing to turn up for the opening performance.
He was found the next day and allegedly failed a drugs test. Poppa was played on opening night by Peter Hagen , who stepped in at a few hours' notice and performed without skates. Download from iTunes. Go Backstage in Bochum. The show opened at the Apollo Victoria in London on 27th March , taking the revolutionary approach of building a race track all the way around the auditorium.
In April Starlight Express became the second longest running musical in London theatre history at that time. Bochum, Germany UK Tour UK and Nordic Tour Las Vegas Music All of the music for the show was performed by a live band under the stage. The stage extended out over the orchestra pit. Design by David Hersey Hersey brought the feeling of a rock concert to the West End stage with his groundbreaking high energy design.
The Napier-designed bridge featured a rig underneath it to supplement the main rig when it was flown out. The moving lights on the version of the show were controlled from an Apple 2E computer. The lighting design along with the running order and content of the show was revised in London in to refresh it for a new generation. From the London souvenir brochure: The challenge of lighting Starlight Express is to do with movement and scale. The actors cover huge expanses of track in a matter of seconds.
A simple lighting idea of the stalls track involves as many as lighting instruments — two or three ideas use as much equipment as many full scale musicals. The sheer complexity of installing all the lighting equipment took a full crew many weeks working day and night. The object of the exercise was to achieve a lighting rig which could immediately respond to the movement of the set and the skaters and the emotional mood of the music.
Starlight has nearly three hundred. The high energy races were pre-filmed, and relayed via 4 digital projectors to a back projection screen flown downstage. See also the LSI article above.
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