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In February of 2003, I ended my five-and-a-half-year tenure with Disney on Ice, and took a position as an electrician on a new National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express. The idea of doing something other than ice skating shows was certainly a novelty, except that I just went to a roller skating show instead!! I guess I just have skating written all over me or something!! Most people have never heard of this show, although it's the second-longest-running show in British theatre history, second to Cats.
This show is huge in terms of theatre tours. The amount of lighting and the size of the set are pretty amazing (details in the technical link below). Add to that the entire cast being on roller skates and doing everything from spinning in place, to doing backflips on the half-pipes, to jumping right off the edge of the stage into the orchestra pit, and you have yourself a pretty good spectacle (to make up for the inherent lack of real plot!).
Unfortunately, while I will have as much technical info as I can throw out, I will most-likely not have any photos or tour journals for this show. This is related to the fact that this show has an almost cult-like following. The rabid fans of this show seem to collect and share every detail they can find about the show and it's cast members. On other versions of this show, cast members have been met at their front door and stalked online. Some of these so-called fans can tell you where a cast member goes to the grocery store, where they live and what their phone number is, or what time they go to the gym on Thursday. They also tend to take any picture of the cast they can find (which belongs to someone else) and make it theirs on their own fan websites.
In an effort to protect the cast (my friends) from having information about them and their lives passed around like tabloid fodder, I will probably not be including any photos or journals. I hardly think any of the cast wants the entire fan base to know that on Saturday night, they went out and got drunk at a bar and flashed the bar staff. While all in good fun, it's really no one's business but the people involved. While I may sound like an ass for being like this, I think it's being more of an ass to think that because you are a fan, the cast's life becomes your own.
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Sam Rembert
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© 2006
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 4:54pm EST
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