I've seen several different films of the megamix already but this is the first time I've seen the marshalls bending down to high five the audience and doing amazing tricks on the way out :-) Still have to wait another month today to see it myself and I simply can't wait! - Gary

My sisters and I have been avid Starlght fans since being little children. Overall we still thought there was a lot of magic in last Saturday's show, despite not having the amazing choreography & jaw dropping stunts of the previous version. We thought the child's dream scene gave clarity to the whole show and we really loved the softening prescence of Mama thoughtout - a very positive change. But we were incredibly disappointed with the cartoon costumes and the space settings - we felt they confused the story and didn't enhance the train theme. We also felt the continual interruption of the child to be distracting - they spolit the flow of the show, and we felt it was too much pressure on a little child, we would strongly suggest aftet the dream scene the child does not appear again. But we really liked the introduction of Hydra, brining the show up to date! We are keen to return but for the magic of the Starlight we loved we will be visiting Germany!

I loved this show. We planned a trip to London around Starlight tickets, and at the interval we bought tickets for 22 June so we could see it again. It's cool that we're in the audience in this video. I've had a soft spot for this show since seeing it in Vegas in 96. We also saw the US tour in 2003, but it's really an impossible show to do well on tour. I'm not a huge ALW fan, but this show (and School of Rock) are exceptions. While I miss the old songs, I think overall this is the best production I've seen, and they fixed some (not all) of the problems the old versions had.

Saw this show in the early 90's with school for my Deama GCSE and loved it. Then i saw a am dram production which was outstanding a few years ago. Would love to see it again

i find it so funny that both theatres where starlight express premiered (on bway and west end) are playing wicked also since it's premiere

Saw the original on Broadway back in the 80's

I WANNA GO SO BAD

i love that the costumes look heavier but i hate that the similarity of the shapes of the costumes makes it harder to distinguish the different characters also some characters i don't recognize at all. 😢

Having seen the show, I want to speak in defense of the costumes and... Well, everything! Firstly, the costumes make a lot more sense in context - It's space themed, though I also think the fact they're trains doesn't get lost if you actually watch it. The performances were amazing and the script is actually pretty much identical to the current German one aside from changing some characters - So if you don't like it because it's 'woke', whatever that even means other than 'it's got someone in it who isn't like me and I don't like that', maybe don't fork out to go to Bochum either! Fwiw, the new take on Greaseball was really fun and Lara who played her when I saw it was a gem. Admittedly I don't love all the costumes even in context, I think the competing racers look too same-y and would've liked more variation on them, and I'm not sure how much having Control onstage really adds to anything, and there's some songs I *wish* they'd brought back, but these people are passionate and put on a really remarkably good performance. Also, are you really a Starlight Express fan if you're not aware of the fact the show's been put on all over the place, and has had stuff cut and changed about a million times? 😂😂😂 Contrary to what some people think, the show you saw in the 80s when you were growing up hasn't existed for a *long* time, and probably isn't coming back. This one is very different, but different isn't bad. Give it a chance, open your mind to having fun, and who knows? You may just have some. (Also wanted to add a note and say I may be a young fan, but I've been a fan since *2012* when I saw the UK tour, which was a long time ago. I was ready to hate this production and I won't be uncritical about it, but slandering a production of the show you've never seen just because it's different and you want your childhood show back is beyond the pail.)

The costumes are hprrible. Bring back the old version

So its for children

Glad I'm missing it, was always great didn't need politically correcting.