STARLIGHT EXPRESS | Music by: Andrew Lloyd Webber |
First Performance: | March 1984, London, Apollo Victoria Theatre |
Broadway Premiere: | March 1987, New York, Gershwin Theatre |
German Premiere: | June 1988, Bochum, Starlight-Express Theater |
German Text: | Sabine Grohmann/ Wolfgang Adenberg |
Directed by: | Dion McHugh |
Choreography: | Arlene Phillips |
Musical Director: | Phil Edwards |
Design and Costumes: | John Napier |
Lighting by: | David Hersey |
Lighting Assistant: | Rick Beltzer, Douglas Cox |
Sound by: | Martin Levan |
Sound assistant: | Sue Jenkinson |
Production Supervision: | Ilse Challis |
Design Ingenieur: | Mike Barnett |
Technical Director: | Martin Tschermak |
Technical Data | |
THEATRE | |
Number of Seats | 1,682 |
Stage Area | 1,100 sq. m |
Total Area | 4,800 sq. m |
Skating tracks total length | 280 m |
Barriers lowered by electrical motors | 105 m |
Difference in height between the levels | 7.5 m |
TECHNICAL STAGE DATA | |
(Stage Machinery and its Control) | |
12 vertically movable gates | pneumatic |
1 movable wedge | hydraulic |
1 swivel seesaw | hydraulic |
1 profile bridge in 3 parts | hydraulic |
1 4-way synchronic, independantly movable main bridge | hydraulic |
8 tonnes of steel were used to construct the sophisticated bridges, tracks and tunnels on the stage and in the auditorium of the Starlight Express Theatre. | |
LIGHTING DATA | |
Star Points | 8000 |
Flourescent tubes (train tracks) | 840 |
Spots | 800 |
Computer programmed movable telescans | 24 |
Laser | 2 |