We went to see Starlight Express today as part of mum’s birthday present.
And what a cracking show it is.
I’m quite getting into this theatre luvy,
The costumes were great and the set fantastic.
The ‘race’ scenes were done via 3d film on a giant screen
and they were done very well.
The show had a couple of hicups tho,first in the opening minutes
a member of the cast fell off the stage, ouch
Then in the second half we had the message ‘will all trains return to the sidings’
then the saftey curtain came down for 5 minutes.
This certainly did not dampen the spirit of the audience tho,
who gave the cast a much deserved raptuous applause as the show ended.
I’m all for theatre for the masses but at ?35 a seat i thought this
1 was just a bit expensive.
That was until i read the program which read ‘ they maybe only 23 people on stage,
but it takes over 200 people to put this show on every night’
Starlight Express is at the opera house until December 4th.
More pics in my gallery, click on the pic below to view them.
Hi there!
I’ve stumbled across your Blog through our friend Google. I’m very impressed with the Starlight Express photos, being a huge fan of the show. Yours are by FAR the best photos of the tour I’ve seen anywhere! But you tease us fans… most of the thumbnails won’t open! 🙁 I’d LOVE to have a look at the full size images, and, if you don’t mind, link to your gallery from my Starlight Express website, http://www.bellesdomain.co.uk? Please let me know… your photos are amazing, the theatre images look far superior to the professionals! Thankyou for having them online!
Beautiful pictures there, any chance we could see the rest of them? The gallery doesn’t work, and the thumbnails are SO tantalizing.
Thank you for your kind words.
This is an Internet Explorer problem.
The easy solution would be to use Firefox.
Hello
Fantastic photos taken thankyou for sharing them. It is always nice to see fresh photos and especially of this tour as they haven’t any brochures out yet. Hope you manage to sort the problem out with the gallery soon.
Hey!
Your photos are great1
I went to see the show on Saturday and i loved it! Me and my mum are going up to Birmingham to see it again in August and i can’t wait. i’m going to buy the soundtrack.It’s great to see photos with the most recent cast because before i couldn’t find any. thans a lot! xxx
Hiya
Just to let you know that the gallery for Starlight express doesnt exist.
Shame as I would have loved to have seen your photos.
Having only seen the show back in london I was hoping to get an idea of if it was worth seeing the touring show or if it would be a dissapointment after seeing “the real thing” with the 360 degree racetrack all around us in the theatre.
All the best
Sarah
Hi Sarah,
I have turned my gallery off at the moment
due to high bandwidth usage.
(actually to many people are using my pictures on their
websites by linking directly to mine)
i hope to have the issue resolved soon
Thanx
Tkey
This site is great! I love Starlight I cant wait to see it again in Glasgow in July! 🙂
I’ve always loved Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals and I think Starlight is the greatest I went to see it at the Opera house on the 3rd Dec just before it closed. It was fabone of the girls fell over but no one fell off the actual stage luckily. I’m so sad though that I haven’t heard whether it’s coming back to manchester again as I’d love to see it again. If anyone has any information on this could you send me an email on :howl_at-the_moon@hotmail.com thanks xx