#starlight express megamix

[teavee-kid]

I LOVE THE MEGAMIX

[trealtox]

https://youtu.be/IHNW_CK60wQ?si=MII6B-Ny1TcOStMj

Guys, why is no one talking about this megamix????

I mean it has everything we like????

They even had One rock-'n'-roll too many!!!

[montygatorguy]

marianthe pearl you are everything to me rn

[constehlla]

All Electras are made absolutely beautiful but the newer(?) Bochum Electra is SO PRETTY. The shiny silver look. The fiber optic ass mohawk. The perfect makeup. He’s so. yeah

[etchif]

[sic-vita]

Starlight express 2024 london (wembley)

[rabnerd28]

Lotta Locomotion > I Am Me

[skyriderwednesday]

So one of the BBC sports presenters is doing a 24-hour roller skating marathon for Comic Relief this year, and they made the announcement of that by having him and one of the other presenters visit the Starlight Express cast...

...does that mean there's going to be a StEx performance during the Red Nose Day telethon????

[tending-the-hearth]

doing a complete 180 because LOOK AT THESE CUTIE PATOOTIES I LOVE SUPER SCI-FI PEARL AND TRADITIONAL/RETRO RUSTY

[suppenzeit]

gay megamix moments. because they're gay and in love!!!

[starlight-lesbians]

honestly homophobic that both the songs released today are by men 🙃 how am i meant to wait over a month to listen to al knott in HD

but thoughts on the album so far!?

(this may be controversial but i’m not actually a huge fan of hydrogen lol, i love it in the megamix and didn’t mind it in the show, but like the full song is kinda… meh)

also is it me or is the mixing in crazy kinda weird? like the backing track and the carriages seem SO quiet? (it’s still on repeat tho)

felt I wanted pumping iron sooo bad

jeevan's vocals in crazy were AMAZING though, he has such a great voice I could listen to it for hours omg.

the mixing was a little off, the coaches were like super quiet and they seemed kinda like autotuned? like it's three distinct voices but I can't really tell bc they all got mixed together

hydrogen was fine to me, jaydon did awesome ofc but it kinda just goes on forever? idk why it was 3 whole minutes but wide smile is only getting a minute and 45 and we don't get the rap or coda of freight

[im-just-a-dumb-gay]

Chica wasn't the only mermaid/siren to befriend a human

Achilles and Dinah met by pure accident. Achilles was a young curious mer and Dinah always loved sitting close to the sea. Over the years they met more often and became pretty close friends. Then one day, Achilles jusy never came back. Dinah never knew why, she couldn't exactly ask the sea, so she would still come by the same pier and a small part of her hoped her friend would return and tell her all that she missed.

[trealtox]

One of my hobbies right now is looking for Starlight Express megamixes. I found treasure.

ELECTRABOOSE IS CANON!!! THEY HELD HANDS!!! THEY HUGGED!!!!!

https://youtu.be/p32Os0fNF3o?si=NGwOn3Xp-we6SZrs

[holditdown-dare]

@archiesfunhouse why would they do that????

Listened to The New Starlight Express for the first time yesterday... how does it manage to sound more dated than the original

[mango-dot-yum]

Starlight Express current productions are cool and all, but they should add more songs into the megamix like they used too. Or at least add One Rock ‘N’ Roll Too Many back into the megamix. Or instead they cut the megamix and just sing One Rock ‘N’ Roll Too Many for a second time. I’m not picky

[dinahdoeeyes]

My ideal production of Starlight Express.

I suppose I'll just get right into it. First the list of characters, then the songs (excluding little bits/non-songs like Taunting Rusty and the races), then the rest.

Cast:

Rusty

Pearl

Greaseball

Dinah

Electra

CB

Ashley

Buffy

Poppa

Belle, the Sleeping Car (called Memphis Belle)

Dustin

Flat-Top

The Rockies

Volta, Joule, Wrench, Purse, and Krupp

The original National Engines

Duvay and the Sleepers

Control

Setlist (* = will be addressed below):

Entry Of National Trains

Rolling Stock

Call Me Rusty

A Lotta Locomotion ('83 Workship version, but with Buffy added)

He Whistled At Me (Minus the Rusty/Pearl conversation)

*Dinah/Greaseball duet

Freight (With the girls bullying the boys)

AC/DC

Pumping Iron ("Trying to build my body, trying to lose my mind" and "Stretching my bullworker, heaving on my weights" switch spots because I just feel that it'd sound better that way.)

Sleepers moment

*Dinah solo

Hitching and Switching (probably original)

Crazy

*That was Unfair (extended)

That's Me/There's Me (duet)

Poppa's Blues

Belle's Song (Combo of OG & Broadway — especially "sniffing the coke")

Starlight Express

The Rap: Hey You

*Make Up My Heart

Pearl Twirl

U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.

Girls' Rolling Stock

Wide Smile (Mostly the Broadway version, except he says the OG "...C.B." in the chorus instead of Broadway's "...the Red Caboose," until the ending after Electra & co leave.)

I Was Robbed

Right Place, Right Time

I Am The Starlight

Rusty and Dustin

*Dinah's Disco (extended)

No Comeback

One Rock & Roll Too Many

I Do and/or Only You (I really want "I Do," and it feels redundant to do both in a row, but I feel like "Only You" is important?)

*GreaseDinah reunion (extended)

Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Starlight Express Megamix (of course)

Notes:

We are leaning hard into the 80's here! None of that trying to modernize StEx they've been doing since the 90's. It doesn't work, and the hyper-80's...ness is one of the best things about StEx!

This is about 60% the 1984 original, so keep that in mind.

Dinah & Greaseball look most like the original Dinah and Greaseball. (Though Dinah's hair looks like this. I'll get to her costumes below.) Greaseball looks completely like Jeff Shankley's GB.

Most of the costumes look like the Broadway versions.

However, Pearl gets 3 costumes; her pants outfit from the '84 previews (but with white pants), followed by her sleek Broadway dress outfit (w/ Electra), and then the fluffy dress outfit (w/ GB).

Dinah has 2 costumes; the first one being more Broadway (but I dislike the leggings, so different ones), and then, when she pairs with Electra, she changes to an outfit that is similar to her OG outfit.

C.B.'s look is very similar to the original, except his pants are black, and he has his later hat.

I want some of the choreography from the '83 workshop. ( x x x x )

Dinah & Greaseball banter a bit because "Incapable of feeding yourself, Greaseball?" Ohhh *chef's kiss* 2017 London Workshop did something right!

*Dinah & Greaseball get a couple's duet. It's a fun, cute, rock/80's pop mix song that touches on their love for each other and how they don't care about others' bullshit. ("Our Lips Are Sealed" kind of vibes, I suppose.)

Ashley and Duvay are sisters.

Greaseball pulls the girls during "Freight," like he originally did.

*Dinah gets a solo after "Pumping Iron" after the Sleepers talk their bullshit. It'd be about 3½ minutes long. If you've read my Dinah rants, you can get an idea of what it's about.

Greaseball, Bobo, and Espresso are part of the choreography during "Crazy" toward the end, racing around with Dinah, Ashley, and Buffy. (I promise this is FIRE in my head. Have faith. 🥺)

*Grease & Dinah have a longer argument before their breakup.

Dinah and C.B. have a duet. It's the Broadway version of There's Me combined with That's Me. (Dinah singing her solo part first.)

*Pearl sings "Make Up My Heart" about Rusty, Electra, and Greaseball. (Explanation here.)

*"U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D." is slower, sadder, and has more lyrics, like it was in the '83 workshop.

Buffy & Ashley are finally canon. It's Complicated™️, but they get it together by the end.

*"Dinah's Disco" is a bit longer, as is *Dinah & Greaseball's reunion/makeup.

Pearl is absolutely like original Pearl in this: A selfish bitch (who learns and gets better by the end); she is not "naive." ("Further from my vision" over "Sadder but no wiser.")

We actually acknowledge that Pearl is an asshole. But, like Greaseball, she learns and is working on herself by the end! 🙌🏽

Pearl apologizes to Dinah at the end. FINALLY. (During a break in LATEOTT.)

Control loves the engines/coaches/freight, and they love him. He's just a bossy little kid, but they're also actin' up. (I'm open to Control being a girl.)

Electra and the Components do come back.

I... think that's it. I hope didn't forget anything.

CHOO CHOO! 💋