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STARLIGHT EXPRESS	Music by: Andrew Lloyd Webber
First Performance:	March 1984, London, Apollo Victoria Theatre
Broadway Premiere:	March 1987, New York, Gershwin Theatre
German Premiere:	June 1988, Bochum, Starlight-Express Theater
German Text:	Sabine Grohmann/ Wolfgang Adenberg
Directed by:	Dion McHugh
Choreography:	Arlene Phillips
Musical Director:	Phil Edwards
Design and Costumes:	John Napier
Lighting by:	David Hersey
Lighting Assistant:	Rick Beltzer, Douglas Cox
Sound by:	Martin Levan
Sound assistant:	Sue Jenkinson
Production Supervision:	Ilse Challis
Design Ingenieur:	Mike Barnett
Technical Director:	Martin Tschermak

Technical Data
THEATRE
Number of Seats	1,682
Stage Area	1,100 sq. m
Total Area	4,800 sq. m
Skating tracks total length	280 m
Barriers lowered by electrical motors	105 m
Difference in height between the levels	7.5 m
TECHNICAL STAGE DATA
(Stage Machinery and its Control)
12 vertically movable gates	pneumatic
1 movable wedge	hydraulic
1 swivel seesaw	hydraulic
1 profile bridge in 3 parts	hydraulic
1 4-way synchronic, independantly movable main bridge	hydraulic
8 tonnes of steel were used to construct the sophisticated bridges, tracks and tunnels on the stage and in the auditorium of the Starlight Express Theatre.
LIGHTING DATA
Star Points	8000
Flourescent tubes (train tracks)	840
Spots	800
Computer programmed movable telescans	24
Laser	2