Start your engines! Michael Harrison and Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals have confirmed initial dates and venues for the highly anticipated world tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express.
The beloved musical made a triumphant return to London in a new production at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in June 2024. It opened to critical acclaim and won multiple awards, including an Olivier Award and a record-breaking seven WhatsOnStage Awards. It became London’s longest running revival of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in 20 years.
The production has been redesigned for theatres across the UK and beyond, bringing all the spectacle and high-speed energy of the London production to your doorstep. Casting for the tour is still be to be announced, which has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. This new production is directed by Luke Sheppard, with set design by Tim Hatley, costume design by Gabriella Slade, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Gareth Owen, new orchestrations by Matthew Brind with Andrew Lloyd Webber and music supervision by Matthew Brind and David Andrew Wilson. Choreography is by Ashley Nottingham and Arlene Phillips is creative dramaturg for the production.
Starlight Express begins its journey at Leicester Curve on 9th May, where it will play until 22nd May, before then calling at Liverpool Empire, Glasgow Theatre Royal, Sunderland Empire, Birmingham Hippodrome and Southampton Mayflower. More stops are still to be announced.
