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| | Starlight Express: Theatre: Joseph Bowen: CenterstageChicago.com |
 | | Starlight Express, which by my estimation has had too long a life, has had productions on Broadway, London and Las Vegas. |
 | | The show begins with the recorded voice of a young boy, who is announcing the beginning of a train race - all the characters in Starlight Express are trains, be they engines, box cars, dining cars or, in one case, a malevolent red caboose. |
 | | The world of Starlight Express is a world in which the German, Russian and Japanese trains are evil, the Diesel and Electric trains are insufferably sure of themselves, and all the "female" train cars are just desperate for some hot train to pay attention to them. |
| www.centerstage.net /theatre/articles/starlight.html (575 words) |
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