The US tour (11/89- of Starlight Express was completely unlike its contemporary second Japanese tour. Rather than scaling the show up to fill stadiums, the set was small enough to fit regular regional theatres. The races were mostly on film- with the racers zooming out to circle the stage from behind the screen occasionally. The tour was a direct development from the Broadway production, inheriting some of the cast, as well as costumes. The set was obviously very restricted by the necessities of tour, but they did manage a small loop of track into the audience, and a bridge/start gate that wouldn't look out of place washing windows on an office block!

Rusty	Sean McDermott	Pearl	Reva Rice
Greaseball	Ron Devito	Dinah	Dawn Marie Church
Electra	Eric Clausell	Buffy	Nicole Picard
Poppa	Jimmy Lockett	Ashley	Rachelle Rak
Rocky 1	Ronald Gaza	Krupp	Nelson Yee
Rocky 2	Dwight Toppin	Wrench	Renee Lynette Chambers
Rocky 3	Angel Vargas	Purse	Jamie
Flat-top	Dennis Courtney	Volta	Kimberly A Gladman
Dustin	Anthony Marciona (then) Steve K. Dry	Joule	Angela Pupello
Red Caboose	Todd Lester
Bobo	Peter Liciaga	Swing	Steve Kadel
Espresso	Steven Cates	Swing	Bobby Love
Weltschaft	Steven M Schultz	Swing	Rick Mujica
Turnov	Preston Simpson	Swing	Meera Popkin
Hashamoto	Glenn Shiroma	Swing	Jeanna Schweppe
Swing	Fred Tallaksen	Swing	Matt Terry
Swing	Chera Wilson		32 in Company

Diagram of the US tour set, from the contrmporary Japan tour program, and the US Tour route.