New Wimbledon, London: Starlight Express was the most elaborate of all of the 1980s Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, a show that anticipated the current fashion for immersive theatre with race tracks wrapping their way entirely around one of London's largest theatres, the Apollo Victoria, like a giant train and Meccano set magnified a few thousand times, to bring the show to the audience wherever they were sitting …
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:25AM on May 16, 2012