#stex olc

[dinahdoeeyes]

HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY, STARLIGHT EXPRESS! 🌟✨️ 💖 🚂🚃

Thank you for all of the joy you've brought me! 🫶🏽

[1010neveragain]

the london production of starlight express has been dead for 21 slutty, slutty years

[queenladonna]

The original London cast of Starlight Express in front of the Apollo Victoria theater (1984).

(Source)

[the-bafflement-of-scotland-yard]

📂📂📂📂 four :)

Four Rat headcanons coming your way 😌

- Nobody exactly understands how Rat and Dinah became friends. He was trying to suck up to Greaseball, met her, and suddenly they were pretty much besties. Apart from Electra she’s the only person he shows more of himself than his cheeky smile.

- Secretly Purse is also attracted to his dilfness. Electra doesn’t know this, but Rat does, and uses it.

- He is often not allowed to play along when the rest of the freight is playing cards, because if he does he wins so hard that everybody knows he’s just blatantly cheating. The problem is that nobody has ever been able to catch him in the act.

- His perfect day would consist of him tinkering with old radios (trying to expand their reception to illegal proportions) with a plate of Dinah’s cookies within reach and Electra occasionally running a hand through his hair and over his back and waist. (Ending of course in him succumbing to it.)

[owwwmyteeth]

COACH REDESIGNS!!

(some of the) OLD COACHES TOO🫶🫶

[electricfied-wolf]

The lyrics to the originally rap are so funny like it is just: Let's Argue For Like 3 Minutes Straight And Barely Resolve Anything Examples:

[suppenzeit]

NOTE: these are all original cast for that given year!

[thefangirl-16-blog]

In honor of the stex London revival I'm reposting my magnum opus

[green-planets]

StEx Appreciation Month Day Seventeen and Eighteen: The Cabeese (Pre/Post 2018)!

Does anyone remember draw your squad memes? Anyway, I'm cramming all three of these guys below the cut.

OLC! Caboose

Love this funky guy!

Favorite Songs/Moments: C.B. is hands down the funkiest song on the OLC! Album and Michael Staniforth was absolutely incredible!! I also love his verses in Freight, especially the way he says 'Hello!' He sounds like such a goober!

Favorite Costume: I think there's just the one, but I love it! You go Mr. Baseball-Playing-Trucker-Man!

Favorite Ships: I don't actively ship him with anyone but I don't mind OLC! Electraboose

Unpopular opinions: I don't think I have any

CB the Red Caboose

He's just a silly fun-time boy!

Favorite Songs/Moments: Wide Smile, the handshake bit with Electra during Wide Smile, taunting Rusty. There's one boot where he kicks Rusty in the face after crashing him and I don't know why but it's actually so funny (poor Rusty though!) Can we also get some appreciation for Todd Lester's splits! And Hans Johansson's dancing/acrobatics!

Favorite Costume: It's stayed pretty consistent, but why change it when it's already perfect!

Favorite Ships: I don't ship him with anyone, I actually hc him as aromantic (though I am partial to Idiot Sandwich purely for shits and giggles)

Unpopular opinions: I don't like the version of Wide Smile with the pop culture references at the beginning, it just kinda breaks my immersion

BV the Break Van

The bastard weasel man (affectionate)!

Favorite Songs/Moments: Mein Spiel! I'm glad he gets his own time to shine during the MegaMix! Watching him sneak around and negotiate with GB and Elektra is so fun! He's also great during Pumping Iron

Favorite Costume: There's only been one, but two-tone glove supremacy!!

Favorite Ships: Beelektra and Carriebee

Unpopular opinions: I love him! And I think he fits better contextually with the updated show

[whistlingstarlight]

StEx is supposed to be either Control's dream or a game on his toy railway but I choose to ignore that because it is infinitely more fun seeing them as real trains

[dinahdoeeyes]

“I wish I could’ve seen them... I’m sure they were amazing,” I say dramatically, like an eccentric movie villain, talking about the original cast of Starlight Express performing Starlight Express.

[1010neveragain]

Yeah dude I'm doing completely fine (I am listening to the original London cast recording of starlight express on repeat)

[queenladonna]

Jeff Shankley and Frances Ruffelle as Greaseball & Dinah in the original 1984 production of Starlight Express.

[the-bafflement-of-scotland-yard]

Important announcement

The ship name for OLC Greaseball/Electra is Jeff² (Jeff squared)

I don’t make the rules, just follow them

[starburst2000]

StEx Appreciation Month 2023!

Day 17: Red Caboose!!!

OLC Caboose (AV) and Broadway/Bochum Caboose (CB)! They're up to no good.