Starlight Express confirms final extension at Troubadour Wembley Park

The new production of Starlight Express has won multiple awards, including an Olivier Award and a record-breaking seven WhatsOnStage awards. It holds the title of being the longest-running revival of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in 20 years. The first production of the musical opened at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in 1984.

Seen by over 30 million people across the world, Starlight Express is a true theatrical event, fully immersing audiences of all ages inside a world of speed, song and storytelling, as the incredible cast of 40 whizz around and above, performing some of musical theatre’s most beloved songs, including AC/DC, Make Up My Heart, Light at the End of the Tunnel and the iconic Starlight Express.

The current company includes Gavin Adams as Rusty, Jade Marvin as Momma McCoy, Olivia Ringrose as Greaseball, Asher Forth as Electra, Sophie Naglik as Pearl, Georgia Pemberton as Dinah, Jaydon Vijn as Hydra and Jamie Addison, Jessie Angell, Ollie Augustin, Evan Taylor Benyacar, Charles Butcher, Cletus Chan, Tamara Verhoven Clyde, Jamie Cruttenden, Kelly Downing, Isaac Edwards, Maddy Erzan-Essien, Sam Gallacher, Lucy Glover, Amiyah Goodall, Scott Hayward, Dante Hutchinson, Iwan James, Lewis Kidd, Hannah Kiss, Nicole Louise-Lewis, Bethany Rose Lythgoe, Temi Olawole, Harrison Peterkin, RED, Ashley Rowe, Sheridan, Dieuwke Tonissen, Nicky Wong Rush, Charlie Russell, Lara Vina Uzcatia and Amber Weston.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express is directed by Luke Sheppard with new choreography by Ashley Nottingham and Arlene Phillips as creative dramaturg.

Starlight Express will play its final performance at the Troubadour Wembley Park on 3 May 2026.