Starlight Express

Starlight Express, Norwich Theatre Royal, 2013

Cast: Kristopher Harding, Amanda Coutts, Mykal Rand, Jamie Capewell, Lothair Eaton, Ruthie Stevens, Kelsey Cobban, Camilla Hardy, Robert Nurse, Lex Milczarek, Ben Harrold, Stuart Armfield, Gavin Ashbarry, James Marshall, Nick Bower, Kris Manuel, Andy Barke, Tristan Adams, Matt King, Adam Illsley, Lisa Dahmane, Louise Lenihan, Sarah Riches, Georgina Hagen, Tony Andrade, Samantha Foker, Aaron Piper, Darryl Paul Saunders, Kerry Stammers.

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Richard Stilgoe

Additional lyrics: David Yazbek

Director & Choreographer: Arlene Phillips 

I was going to marvel at how unlikely this all is but then I started thinking about all the other shows Andrew Lloyd Webber has written and how unlikely some of them are: Cats, Joseph, Evita, spring to mind - and perhaps it all just makes sense to him. I never saw the original production where, if I've understood thigs correctly, there was skating around the auditorium which you didn't get in the touring production. It was a bit cheap and silly. And astonishingly it's being revived again this year. I won't be going.