Musical - Starlight Express

Wow! It seems quite amazing to me that this is the first Starlight Express post on the blog.  How can that be when it seems such a big part of my life.  Well, there is a post involving Starlight Express documenting some of my early experiences, but this is the first post about a current trip to see it!


Katy (wowee, check out her blog - super impressed.  I was there at it's conception and it has far exceeded my goings ons now.  Definitely in awe) and I have a long-standing history of going to see the touring production of Starlight Express.  She booked tickets for us to go see this one in Norwich on 13th April and great anticipation ensued with a slew of lyrics being texted back and forth in the week leading up to it.  We listened to one ear piece apiece on the train on the way to Norwich and decided on our favourite lines we would be listening out (sadly her's was cruelly missed but 'you want to boil with the oil or lose with the fuse' was there!).  We also debated how many times we had seen it - this blog appears to suggest this was our third - and generally had fun musicals chat including reference to this blog.

We did enjoy it, and enjoyed our time in Norwich too.  We can't help but feel it's not as good as in London and it never will be, but I think with our expectations lowered we end up enjoying it still!  There was a girl band number that I feel wouldn't look out of place on the X Factor that the carriages sing, but I think that was the bit that annoyed me most!

Thank you Starlight - we love you!