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Starlight Express to close after 18 years
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Starlight Express, is to close after 18 years at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.
The rollerskating show, which opened in 1984, is the second longest running musical in the West End after Lloyd Webber's Cats, and will give its final performance on 12 January 2002.
But this won't be the end of the show said Lloyd Webber, Starlight Express has had an amazing run. It is a show dear to my heart as I wrote it for my older children, now 24 and 22, and I want to turn it into something my younger children will enjoy.
I have long wanted to see Starlight presented in Britain in a purpose built environment as we have in Germany. Starlight's closure in London provides the perfect opportunity to plan this while freeing up the theatre for my production of the musical Bombay Dreams.
A national tour of the show and an animated television series based on the musical is planned as well as a stadium production of the show in other territories.
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